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Silk Road Pirate Accuses Government Of Stealing His Bitcoin Booty
Silk Road Mastermind Ross Ulbricht Ross Ulbricht or better known by his silk road alias of “Dread Pirate Roberts” has accused the government of being the real pirates, by for the first time admitting the government took his 173,000 or so of his encrypted virtual currency. When he was first…
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FBI Seizes Record 144,336 Bitcoins – Worth $28 Million
RT reports that the FBI have just made their biggest seizure of bitcoins to date, a staggering 144,336 worth an estimated $28 million at current market value. The FBI claim to have seized the “secret stash” of bitcoins belonging to the Silk Road online marketplace founder and owner. The bitcoins…
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Four Men Arrested Over Silk Road Links
Silk Road, the illegal drug and services website that was operating on the Tor network, was taken off-line last week. This was shortly after the sites founder was arrested and questioned by the FBI. Now we see the story developing as four more men have been arrested in the UK…
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BitCoin Users Angry With FBI Seizure Of Silk Road Funds
Silk Road may have been taken online, but that doesn’t mean the sites users are just going to give up! Especially when hundreds of the sites customers have lost a combined total of $80 million in BitCoins as the FBI tries to gain access to the funds. Pro-drug advocates, as…
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Copycat Sites Ready To Take Place Of Silk Road Drug Marketplace
It was only last week that Silk Road was taken offline from the Tor network, it’s owner arrested and taken to court on money laundering and suspected organised murder charges. Days later the vultures are moving in ready to fill the void that the sites closure has left in a…
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Silk Road Owner Ross Ulbricht Appears In Court
Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind of Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace was arrested earlier this week as the site was taken offline from the Tor (onion network) that it operated on. Tor is a network like the internet which operates outside of the normal world wide web we…
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Silk Road Drug Marketplace Shutdown By FBI
Sites like the Silk Road have gained a cult personally on many dark corners of the internet. Silk Road provided people with an anonymous market place to buy and sell illegal drugs and items, mostly via the use of the digital currency BitCoin. Now the FBI have arrested Silk Road…
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