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Is Bitcoin Headed for a Break in Fungibility?

Juan Galt -
Fungibility is often held as a crucial characteristic of sound money. But what happens when money has a public record of every transaction,...
CULTURE

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

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

The Case Against Carl Force, or Why Prosecutors Seek Seven Years Imprisonment for a Corrupt Silk Road Investigator

Aaron van Wirdum -
Update: Carl Mark Force IV was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison today. While Force's defense asked for a sentence beneath statutory guidelines as...
CULTURE

Ex-U.S. Agent Charged With Bitcoin Theft to Plead Guilty

Joseph Young -
In March of 2015, two federal agents who helped conduct one of the major investigations in the Silk Road case allegedly stole thousands in...
BUSINESS

OpenBazaar Receives $1 Million in Funding from Top Investors to Launch Decentralized Marketplace

Giulio Prisco -
OpenBazaar announced that it received $1 million in seed funding from Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and angel investor William Mougayar to develop the...
CULTURE

Deep Web Documentary Shines Light on the Rise and Fall of the Silk Road

Kevin Cruz -
On February 4, 2015, a young man named Ross Ulbricht was convicted of seven charges laid in a U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan. On...
CULTURE

Ulbricht’s Lawyer Files for Retrial

Jacob Donnelly -
Ross Ulbricht has not even been sentenced yet for his conviction as leader of Silk Road, the Amazon for drugs, and he’s already requesting...
MARKETS

US Marshals Auction Participant: Price Not Significantly Below Market

Jacob Donnelly -
The U.S. Marshals held their third auction for the bitcoin seized from Ross Ulbricht during the Silk Road investigation, auctioning off 50,000 bitcoin on...
MARKETS

U.S. Marshals Hold Third Bitcoin Auction

Joel Dalais -
The U.S. Marshals Service is holding its third Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) bitcoin auction this March 5th, 2015. These bitcoin were seized from Ross...
CULTURE

€1.5m / $1.8m Worth of Bitcoin Seized in Dublin Drug Raid

Jamie Mccormick -
Less than a mile from my home, as the Web Summit wrapped up in Dublin's RDS, Gardai (the Irish police) raided an office in the...
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