Silk Road

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered the well-preserved remains of a cat that died over 1,000 years ago…

Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to…

Shaun Bridges, the 35-year-old Secret Service agent from Baltimore who was sentenced to 71 months in prison in 2016…

The dark web—the portion of the deep web only accessible through specific software—exists to serve the needs of…

An anonymous bidder purchased 2,700 bitcoins worth about $1.6 million in an anonymous auction held by US Marshals…

As the TV show Scrubs once said, “everything comes down to poo.” This is true in sitcom land, but also in science.

Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges is going to prison for 71 months, or nearly six years, for stealing over…

The arrest, trial and conviction of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht — and his sentence of life in prison — was a…

One of the two government officials charged with some shady dealings during the investigation of Silk Road pleaded…

Over at Bloomberg, Virginia Postrel writes about a grand jury subpoena issued to unmask the identities of anonymous…

Online drug sales gained notoriety thanks to the Silk Road market, but the buying and selling of illegal…

The darknet is often sensationalized as a digital haven for crooks, perverts, freaks, and anarchists, but it’s also…

Ross Ulbricht, the California hippie convicted for founding notorious online drug market Silk Road, has been…

The Silk Road’s convicted kingpin won’t get a new trial, a judge ruled today. A motion for retrial filed by Ross…

Two former federal agents have been charged with fraud and money laundering while they were working on a task force…

Two former federal agents who investigated the Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace seized by the FBI in…

It took less than four hours for jurors to agree that Ross Ulbricht was the man behind the persona of Silk Road…

Evolution, the most popular online drug market since the Silk Road, has disappeared without warning. Users say $12…

It only took a few hours for a jury to convict Ross Ulbricht of running the infamous online drug marketplace Silk…

If you've always wanted to dabble in cryptocurrency speculation but you were just waiting until you could acquire…