Antinalysis helps cybercriminals avoid running the risk of being identified they attempt to cash out their illicit proceeds, according to a blockchain analytics firm.
The dark web vendors like the ubiquity and anonymity of the top cryptocurrencies, a new report said.
The woman allegedly presented a sum of over $5,000 in bitcoin to a dark web admin as proof she could afford the hit.
Darknet marketplaces received $1.7 billion during 2020, Chainalysis says.
FBI lacks a "comprehensive strategy for addressing the cryptocurrency threat in the future," OIG wrote.
The chemicals, though never delivered, would have been potent enough to kill 300 people, prosecutors say.
Joanna De Alba "dispensed heroin and methamphetamine from the shadowy corners of the internet," said U.S. Attorney Richard P. Donoghue.
Here’s one token sale that’s almost certainly illegal, and not just under securities laws.
Dark market sellers are offering fiat cash for bitcoin at heavily discounted prices, but there's a catch.
A man has been sentenced in San Diego, California, for conspiring to sell opioids and other drugs over dark web markets for cryptocurrencies.
The trio sold their products on the dark web and shipped as far as Australia.
The couple must forfeit an undisclosed sum of bitcoin and bitcoin cash they acquired from selling illicit goods on a dark web marketplace.
A dark web drug dealer must forfeit $4 million in funds including bitcoin after pleading guilty in New York.
A case involving millions of dollars in bitcoin and Western Union payments resulted in New York State's first conviction for crypto money laundering.
A Toronto judge has ruled that a 30-year old drug dealer must forfeit 281.41 bitcoins used in illegal activities on the dark web.