The crackdown of vendors on darkweb marketplaces lets the U.S. government seize 4,000 bitcoins and now it wants to confiscate all of them.
One of the most well-known dark markets is looking to add support for ethereum in the coming weeks.
Department of War Studies professors have published results of their deep dive into the Tor network.
Bitcoin and digital currencies are said to be an area of focus during an upcoming conference organized by Interpol.
CoinDesk looks at the top headlines from the last week including prominent pieces from Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.
Agora has announced it will shut down temporarily while it explores defence mechanisms against attacks which could identify its servers and operators.
Marketplaces on the dark web frequently processed more bitcoin transactions than BitPay last year, new research has found.
For €50 in bitcoin, Energy Control provides anyone in the world with a breakdown of the purity of their drugs – no questions asked.
Former DEA agent Carl Mark Force IV has admitted stealing over $700,000 worth of bitcoin whilst running the Baltimore Silk Road investigation.
A teenager who instructed ISIL (or ISIS) supporters on how to use bitcoin has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to provide material support.
Drug sales on the dark web actually increased after the closure of bitcoin-only marketplace Silk Road, a new survey has shown.
An international undercover investigation that tracked the illegal selling of firearms on a dark web site has resulted in a series of global arrests.
An automated shopping bot designed to make purchases on dark web marketplaces using bitcoin has been released after being confiscated.
Notorious dark web marketplace Evolution has vanished amid reports that its administrators have absconded with more than $12m in bitcoin. Accessible only via the Tor network, the market had become the go-to online drug bazaar following the shut down of Silk Road and Operation Onymous, a pan-agency crackdown on illicit markets that seized over 400 domains in […]
Artists have created a shopping bot that buys random items off Agora with a weekly $100 bitcoin budget.