Silk Road

Freedom Hosting, a web hosting provider specifically targeting websites in the Tor community, has been shut down, and its owner Eric Eoin Marques arrested...

Image credit: http://spelunk.in/2013/07/14/los-angeles-bitcoin-meetup-2-writeup/See also: Bitcoin Self-Defense, Part 1: Wallet ProtectionThe in-person Bitcoin economy is an exciting place to be. Ever since “Satoshi Square”, an...

In late March, the cryptic underworld of the Tor hidden service ecosystem added a new service to its midst: TorBroker, a gateway for Bitcoin...

The mainstream media has taken a predictable turn in their treatment of the series of regulatory incidents regarding Bitcoin-related services this month. Technology Review...

In the New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman has written a lengthy article criticizing Bitcoin from an economic point of view, entitled “The Antisocial...

A week ago, BitPay CEO Tony Gallippi announced that his payment processing service had set a new record: a transaction volume of $2 million...

The Two Bitcoin Conferences of 2013After the first two successful Bitcoin conferences that took place in Prague in 2011 and London in 2012, it...

Much has happened since the first Silk Road report that we released a month ago. In mid-July, a Silk Road user was arrested by...

The owner and operator of Silk Road, aliased as Dread Pirate Roberts, announced on August 2nd, 2012 that "The Armory", an extension of Silk...

Silk Road attracts people for many reasons. Some are simply interested in having a safe and easy place to buy and sell illegal items, of which drugs are by far the largest category.