Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon reportedly frets about kids selling drugs and pyramid schemes while regulators draft rules for South Korea's exchanges.
Customs agents in Finland revealed today that they seized bitcoin and other items worth about €1m earlier this year.
Across the US, bitcoin ATMs are finding use among those who operate in the gray areas of commerce
Department of War Studies professors have published results of their deep dive into the Tor network.
Just how much do we know about new underground economies? Here's what available data can tell us about bitcoin on the Dark Web.
For €50 in bitcoin, Energy Control provides anyone in the world with a breakdown of the purity of their drugs – no questions asked.
A company near San Fransisco has come up with a novel way to deliver bitcoin-purchased marijuana, via drone.
Drug sales on the dark web actually increased after the closure of bitcoin-only marketplace Silk Road, a new survey has shown.
Czech police have seized a luxury property purchased with bitcoin by a couple previously linked to online drug bazaar Sheep Marketplace.
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 […]
A southern Tasmanian man has pleaded guilty to trafficking drugs and admitted that bitcoin was used to pay for them.
The Australian Crime Commission has launched an official investigation into bitcoin's role in organized crime activity, called 'Project Longstrike'.
The future of online black market Cannabis Road is now uncertain after $100,000 in bitcoin was stolen by hackers.
A new study argues that online drug bazaars, such as Silk Road, can actually reduce drug-related violence.
The Japanese authorities have arrested an alleged drug importer with a penchant for digital currencies.