A 29 year-old man in Wales has pleaded guilty to five drug charges related to the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace, but did not make a deal with prosecutors.
Federal investigators have confirmed that Brian Richard Farrell has been arrested in connection with black market website Silk Road 2.0.
Operation Onymous seized more than 100 'cloned' sites, where no illicit trading was taking place, a security researcher has found.
The bitcoin price has surged past $400 for the first time since mid-October, gaining over 9% today.
The bitcoin price has risen after a variety of law-enforcement agencies conducted an inter-continental crackdown on dark markets.
Operation Onymous has resulted in a string of arrests and dark web domain shutdowns in the past 48 hours.
Blake Benthall, the alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0, has been arrested and charged in a Manhattan federal court.
The FBI may have taken Silk Road down, but dark markets seem to be booming a year after that marketplace was shuttered.
An advanced DDoS attack has forced online black market Silk Road 2.0 to suspend services to maintain security.
Silk Road 2.0 now estimates all victims who lost bitcoin in its February hack will be repaid by mid-June.
Despite recent setbacks, Silk Road 2.0 now lists more items than the original site in its heyday.
Following Silk Road's demise, some users (and even law enforcement officials) wax nostalgic about the 'original' Dread Pirate Roberts.
Silk Road 2.0 reports that 1,000 BTC has not been claimed by users affected by its February security breach.
Silk Road 2.0 has announced it will pay back vendors and customers affected by last week's breach.
Customers are furious after black market drugs site Silk Road 2 says it lost their coins to hackers.