Silk Road


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Remote control, rank craziness and revolution 2.0

John Law's week in bitcoin: coffee commerce, Capital One chocolate coins, and UK Silk Road users arrested.

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Four "significant users" of Silk Road arrested in UK

Four men in the UK have been arrested over their alleged roles in the online marketplace Silk Road.

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Silk Road alternatives emerge as public hammers FBI bitcoin wallet

The bitcoin community mocks the FBI, sending messages to the address used for seizing Silk Road's funds.

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Sex, drugs and racks of beef

Now Silk Road is offline, why not spend your spare bitcoins on ethically farmed beef and erotic bitcoin novels?

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Why reports of bitcoin's death are greatly exaggerated

The bitcoin world has been in a whirlwind the past few days. How was the bitcoin price impacted?

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Silk Road fell due to a catalogue of errors by owner Ross Ulbricht

Sloppy behaviour and neat detective work brought down Silk Road. Just how big was it, and what happens now?

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Silk Road shut down and 'owner' Ross William Ulbricht arrested

Silk Road owner Ross William Ulbricht has allegedly been arrested and his online black market shut down.

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Fighting the war on bitcoin, one scam at a time

With drug marketplace Atlantis closing, we take a look at the scams and potentially negative connotations of bitcoin.

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Why bitcoin is as anonymous as you want it to be

CoinDesk examines how anonymous bitcoin is and could be.

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Bitcoin’s lessons on the bahts and the bees

Headlines this week wanted to show Thailand being idiotic, or that cryptocurrencies were in serious trouble; ideally, both.

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