Accused of being a moderator for the online drug and illegal services bazaar Silk Road, 40-year-old Peter Philip Nash, aka “Samesamebutdifferent,” has been indicted for drug distribution. Although not ...

A billion dollars worth of bitcoin linked to the long-defunct darknet marketplace Silk Road suddenly moved this week — for the first time since the FBI raided the operation in April 2013. Now we know ...

The US Marshals Service will auction off nearly 30,000 Bitcoins seized from the Silk Road shutdown. Got $200,000? Place a bid! Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Federal agents this week seized more than $1 billion worth of bitcoins linked to the now-defunct Silk Road website, a criminal marketplace on the dark web, in what may be the Justice Department’s ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) take down last week of Silk Road 2.0 and two dozen other illicit markets has paved the way for enterprising kingpins to rush into the void and give the ...

THE alleged mastermind of the Silk Road internet black market tried to have a former employee tortured, then killed, investigators say. A hidden website operated by the San Francisco man, using an ...

Silk Road website raided by FBI, Ross William Ulbricht arrested. Oct. 2, 2013— -- A billion dollar black market website allowed people to use Bitcoin digital currency to buy guns, drugs or hire ...

Where would you hide $3.4 billion worth of Bitcoin? For James Zhong, the ideal spot was to store it on a computer — with its circuitry exposed — placed in a used Cheetos popcorn tin hidden in a ...