Black market
Business News
Key Player in Silk Road Successor Site Gets Eight Years in U.S. Prison
Like the original website, Silk Road 2.0 allowed users to anonymously buy and sell drugs, computer hacking tools and other illicit items, using the digital currency bitcoin, authorities said.
Cryptocurrency / Blockchain
Alleged Creator of Silk Road Detained Without Bail
At a bail hearing in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, a federal prosecutor revealed that Ross William Ulbricht allegedly ordered the murders of six people, and that more than 450,000 bitcoins of his personal fortune are still unaccounted for.