Tag: silk road
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Who Owns the World’s Biggest #Bitcoin Wallet? The #FBI.
from wired.com: Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government. In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online black marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross…
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One Month After Government Shutdown, Silk Road 2.0 Launches
from vocativ.com: The underground black market is back! Meanwhile, the government admits its “whack-a-mole” strategy failed. Last week, it was reported that the mysterious Dread Pirate Roberts II was planning on resurrecting Silk Road—the underground black market shut down by the FBI in October. Today the anonymous founder made good on his promise. The site—which…