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Are Cops still chasing down Silk Road Dealers?

14 Mar 2025 1 minute read 1 comment Keith Thuerk

Are Cops still chasing down Silk Road Dealers?     Apparently, the US Dept of Justice (DoJ) is still active and seizing BTC For instance, in January, 749 BTC were seized in West Texas (net worth @ $62.5M), during the raid the DoJ also seized Gold in...

How did Trump's Tenure Begin? Ulbricht, BTC Reserve, D.O.G.E. and Memecoins

7 Feb 2025 3 minute read 32 comments ☑️0🆇D̺͈͙͕̿ͧ̑ͣ🅰🆅🅸🅳eͤ

Donald Trump, the new president of the United States, had promised a few things at the Bitcoin Conference 2024. First of all, he would remove Gary Gensler from the SEC field, then the creation of a national reserve in BTC, the release of Ross Ulbrich...

Silk Road, an attempted response to drug prohibition

30 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments BitcoinBerg

https://x.com/RealRossU/photo Ross Ulbricht was sentenced in 2015 to double life in prison for his role in founding Silk Road, an online marketplace that facilitated the sale of drugs. On January 20, 2025, he was released on a presidential pardon...

Did the US Just Kill Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve Dream?

9 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Bfab

I just read something wild—apparently, the US government is rushing to sell $6.5 billion worth of Bitcoin seized from the Silk Road, just days before Trump takes office. Here’s the kicker: Trump campaigned on keeping all confiscated Bitcoin to create...

Collapsing An Empire: The Silk Road Takedown

22 Apr 2024 8 minute read 6 comments Investigator515

The End of the World’s First Darkweb Market. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack. Over the last few months, we’ve taken a deep dive into the dark web, by looking at onion routing and the history of tor, while next...

Crypto Crime: From Silk Road to... Well, Still Silk Road?

12 Feb 2024 1 minute read 7 comments Bfab

I recently read a Binance article referencing a recent Chainalysis report. Their data revealed a surprising truth: while illicit transactions in crypto plummeted to a mere fraction of a percent in 2023, it's not quite the clean bill of health some mi...

The US Government Is Completely Confused About Cryptos

22 Jun 2023 1 minute read 8 comments Bfab

The US government's stance on cryptocurrencies has been all over the place lately. First, they tried to damage the crypto industry with Operation Choke Point 2.0. Then, they seemed to give their greenlight to a BlackRock Bitcoin ETF, although that ha...

Funniest crypto Nov 7th! The truth about Sammy!!

7 Nov 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Dave Sawyer

Cipherpunks, we love you!!  Cryptonauts, the future of humanity thanks you, and the sleek Publish0x we all ride in on!   Dang it was great to see the first Heavy launch in four years !!!   We just wanna whinge about the FT, but the algo wants funnies...

Could Bitcoin Be Losing Its Popularity? And Let's Celebrate Ross Ulbricht Being Debt-Free!

23 Apr 2022 2 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor

Google data suggests bitcoin’s popularity is slipping away. Meanwhile, one crypto user calls out sexism in the bitcoin ecosystem. Tesla is HODLing $1.261 billion in digital assets, including bitcoin. One crypto market analyst says bitcoin is still a...

Bitcoin and the Story of Antifragility #2: Silk Road

29 Sep 2021 7 minute read 2 comments hifi.bitcoin

Listen to this article in podcast format. It was amazing to him to think how far he and his underground marketplace had come in just a few years. Originally started in order to allow people to buy anything completely anonymously, in two years the si...