In Forbes Liam Wright, editor-in-chief of Cryptoslate, says: “The current inflation rate for bitcoin stands around 0.84%, whereas the most recent US inflation data for May came in at 3.4%.” The only ...

One of the funnier examples of terrible opsec in the court documents was the claim he'd asked a question on Stack Overflow ...

Why Trump Freed Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts Ulbricht, who was convicted of running an anonymous online drug marketplace, became a hero to crypto-holders everywhere.

'He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!' Prosecutors had described Silk Road as an unprecedented one-stop online shopping mall where the supply of drugs was virtually limitless.

But Ulbricht is also claiming that he is not the Dread Pirate Roberts — the person (or people) associated with the most notorious aspects of Silk Road. As Wired reports: ...

You could buy any drug imaginable, wherever you were in the world, on the Silk Road website. Hidden on the dark web, it made millions of dollars every week. The US government had been trying to ...

Notorious Silk Road kingpin 'Dread Pirate Roberts' will spend the rest of his life in jail Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the infamous Silk Road drugs marketplace, has lost his court appeal ...

When the Silk Road online drug bazaar operated by Ulbricht, also known as Dread Pirate Roberts, was at its peak five years ago, its founders thought they were bulletproof.