Want to be the next Dread Pirate Roberts? You can get started by buying 50,000 bitcoins once owned by Ross Ulbricht (aka the Dread Pirate), who is awaiting sentencing on a… Read more »
Of course Ross Ulbricht was guilty. Despite his far-fetched claims of mistaken identity, a New York jury confirmed the obvious: that Ulbricht (aka Dread Pirate Roberts) was the criminal mastermind who took on a villain’s name, and became… Read more »
His attorneys admitted early on in the trial that Ross Ulbricht had created the Silk Road, the online drug bazaar that was busted by the FBI in October 2013 when Ulbricht… Read more »
Ross Ulbricht, a young man from Texas, created a massive online market for drugs and crime known as the Silk Road, got filthy rich off digital currency and tried to murder anyone who crossed… Read more »
Of the 50,000 bitcoins up for auction, the Bitcoin Investment Trust bidding syndicate walked away with 48,000 of them. The US Marshals’ Service confirmed that the syndicate, which includes the Bitcoin… Read more »
The mother of “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the young man who allegedly masterminded the online criminal marketplace known as Silk Road, has harsh words for how the U.S. government has treated her… Read more »
The U.S. Marshal’s Service on Monday announced a second series of auctions to sell off thousands of bitcoins related to the seizure of the online criminal bazaar known as the Silk… Read more »
A leaked list suggests some familiar names will participate in an upcoming bitcoin auction by the US government. This raises the question of why people would participate in a currency auction… Read more »