Collaborate Disseminate
Six weeks after Ross Ulbricht was arrested for running the Silk Road drug market, someone logged in as ‘Dread Pirate Roberts.’ Continue reading Someone Accessed Silk Road Operator’s Account While Ross Ulbricht Was in Jail
An unknown agent known only as ‘notwonderful’ appears to have been selling information about the Silk Road investigation back to the website’s operator. Continue reading New Details Suggest Rogue Government Agent Deleted Evidence in Silk Road Case
An unknown agent known only as ‘notwonderful’ appears to have been selling information about the Silk Road investigation back to the website’s operator. Continue reading New Details Suggest Rogue Government Agent Deleted Evidence in Silk Road Case
Even the shadowy dark web is no longer safe from the ravages of cybercrime it seems. Continue reading Phisher arrested for stealing Bitcoins from dark web users
A winning anonymous bidder bought 2,700 Bitcoins (worth roughly $1.6 Million) in an auction held by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) on Monday.
The US government announced at the beginning of this month its plans to auction 2,719 Bitcoins tha… Continue reading Unknown Bidder Buys 2,700 Bitcoins (worth $1.6 million) at US Government Auction
Gary Davis of Ireland faces a minimum sentence of 10 years if convicted in the US. An Irish court has said he has to go and face the music. Continue reading Silk Road suspect “Libertas” can be extradited to US, says court
An Irish judge has ruled on the extradition of Gary Davis, suspected of being Silk Road staffer Libertas. Continue reading Court Rules to Extradite Suspected Silk Road Admin From Ireland to the US
Mining the wealth of information in the BitCoin blockchain is nothing new, but BitCluster goes a long way to make sense of the information you’ll find there. The tool was released by Mathieu Lavoie and David Decarty-Hetu, PH.D. on Friday following their talk at HOPE XI.
I greatly enjoyed sitting in on the talk which began with some BitCoin basics. The cryptocurrency uses user generated “wallets” which are essentially addresses that identify transactions. Each is established using key pairs and there are roughly 146 million of these wallets in existence now
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Continue reading BitCluster Brings a New Way to Snoop Through BitCoin Transactions
It also proves people were wiping their ass with sticks. Continue reading Ancient Poop Sticks Prove the Silk Road Spread Disease
The finest dank the Caucasus had to offer. Continue reading These Bronze Age Humans Were History’s Biggest Weed Dealers