Silk Road Founder Marks 10 Years of Prison Sentence
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the first online “modern darknet market,” has now served 10 years out of his double life sentence in prison. Ulbricht posted on X on October 2 that he had spent a decade in prison and feared he would spend the rest of his life “behind concrete walls and locked doors.” […]
Australian Police Return to Silk Road Following Record-Breaking Bitcoin Seizure
Victoria Police confiscated over $6 million in Bitcoin during an investigation into internet drug trafficking, a record for Australian law enforcement. In the country’s largest-ever cryptocurrency capture, police in the Australian state of Victoria confiscated about A$8.5 million ($6 million) in Bitcoin from internet drug dealers. Victoria Police also confiscated substances suspected to be cannabis, […]