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Study Suggests 25 Percent of Bitcoin Users Are Associated With Illegal Activity

In a newly published paper on the use of bitcoin for illegal activity, researchers from the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney and...

“Bitcoin Laundering” Study: Where Do Criminals Turn to Mask Illicit Cryptoassets?

A recent study (PDF) from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and blockchain analytics company Elliptic explored the...

Hansa Market Taken Down in Global Law Enforcement Operation

Darknet marketplace Hansa was seized in a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI and the DEA with the support of Europol.

How a Bitcoin Whitehat Hacker Helped the FBI Catch a Murderer

An ethical hacker breached the database of a phony darknet website offering hitman services and leaked the data. The information from the data dump...

More Mainstream Use Cases Needed to Secure Bitcoin’s Legitimacy

Blockchain technologies like the one that underpins Bitcoin are gaining wide acceptance across industry sectors from finance to healthcare to real estate. Bitcoin itself,...

Danish Police Can Now Catch Criminals Who Used Bitcoin

Bitcoin was never really anonymous, and it seems the Danish police have caught on to that fact. According to reports by Danish newspaper Berlingske,...

Darknet Markets Causing Trouble for US Postal Service

The US Postal Service is actively hiring darknet market experts to combat illegal activity

Revelations of Evidence Tampering Help Boost Global Support of Ross Ulbricht

In a display of support, on December 4 a worldwide audience tuned in to Free Ross-A-Thon. The eight hour online fundraiser set a $14,000...

Dark Web Conference Coming to New York May 12

Alan Meckler, the man behind the 1990s’ Internet World and Inside Bitcoins over the past few years, is launching a new conference in collaboration...

U.S. Marshals Will Hold the Final Auction of the Silk Road Bitcoin This Week

Over the past year, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS ) has auctioned off a large part of the bitcoin that had been confiscated...
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