The DarkMarket site was thought to be the world's largest illegal online marketplace.
Empire Market, the darknet's most popular marketplace by site traffic, was suddenly taken offline on Aug. 22.
Here’s one token sale that’s almost certainly illegal, and not just under securities laws.
Five drug dealers who used cryptocurrencies to launder their funds were sentenced to varying jail terms on Monday.
Cryptocurrencies seized by Belgian law enforcement from online drug dealers are set to be sold off by an Ireland-based auction house.
The U.S. Department of Justice has won the right to confiscate money and items Alexandre Cazes enjoyed from his dark web e-commerce empire's riches.
A new study by a blockchain analytics firm has identified the most popular dark web markets.
A soon-to-be-released study has found evidence that bitcoin’s market is now a venue for "legitimate" commerce.
Darkleaks will let users sell leaked data in an anonymous, trustless environment powered by bitcoin's blockchain.
A new decentralised marketplace called Bitmarkets has introduced privacy enhancing features and a novel escrow system.
Artists have created a shopping bot that buys random items off Agora with a weekly $100 bitcoin budget.
The bitcoin price has risen after a variety of law-enforcement agencies conducted an inter-continental crackdown on dark markets.
Multiple countries are working together to target the dark web's online markets, and bitcoin is on their watch list.