Tag Archive: dark web

• Bitcoin, News, News teaser, Silk Road

  Love Turns Ugly as Woman Arrested for Bitcoin Murder-For-Hire Plot

  A woman in Illinois is facing up to 20 years in prison for a Bitcoin murder-for-hire plot she put in place against the wife of the man she had an affair with. Love can make people do horrible things, especially when that love is directed at someone who is currently married to someone else. Tina Jones, a 31-year-old woman in Illinois, has been arrested by police and is being charged in a murder-for-hire plot in

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  Jeff Francis · April 21, 2018 · 10:00 am
• Altcoin News, Litecoin, News, News teaser

  Litecoin Is the Dark Web’s Favorite Altcoin

  Litecoin has unexpectedly increased in preference among internet users looking to transact cryptocurrencies for illicit services. It is now the second most popular cryptocurrency on the Dark Web — behind only Bitcoin. A Lite in the Darkness Litecoin (LTC) is now the most popular altcoin on the Dark Web. According to a report from Recorded Future, Litecoin has unexpectedly surpassed other cryptocurrencies in preference “and is currently the second most dominant coin on the dark

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  Adam James · March 28, 2018 · 6:00 am
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Debit Card, Bitcoin Regulation, News, News teaser

  4 Ways Criminals Are Trying to Cash out Their Bitcoin

  Due to the increased spotlight on cryptocurrency, criminals are finding it more difficult to cash out their Bitcoin for fiat, but they are finding ways to do so. A common media portrayal is that of a criminal who plies their trade on the Dark Web and amassing a fortune in Bitcoin. It is true that the daddy of cryptocurrency can be used for all manner of illicit transactions, but an interesting phenomenon is now occurring.

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  Jeff Francis · March 20, 2018 · 2:30 pm
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Price, News, News teaser

  U.S. Government Receives Approval to Sell Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash Seized From Dark Web Dealer

  The U.S. government has received approval from a judge in Utah to sell off 513 Bitcoin and 512 Bitcoin Cash seized from an investigation involving Aaron Michael Shamo, a dealer on the dark web.  $10 Million in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Seized The U.S government is preparing to liquidate all assets of Aaron Michael Shamo following his recent arrest, including his Ford pickup truck, BMW, and his nearly $10 million worth of Bitcoin and Bitcoin

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  Patrick Smith · January 7, 2018 · 10:00 pm
• Altcoin News, Altcoins, Bitcoin, News, News teaser, Silk Road

  Criminals Have Found an Alternative to Bitcoin

  Many people believe that Bitcoin is the preferred currency of criminals, but experts think that criminals are dropping Bitcoin for other digital currencies. The Rise of Privacy Coins In the last couple of years, deep web markets have risen in popularity. The major appeal of such darknet markets is the ability to obtain illegal goods like drugs and weapons in an anonymous way. But the recent technological advancements of law enforcement agencies has made purchasing goods

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  Ashour Iesho · January 4, 2018 · 4:00 am
• Bitcoin, News, News teaser

  Italian Woman Jailed for Bitcoin Murder Plot

  An Italian woman was sentenced to six years in a Danish prison for hiring a hitman with Bitcoin to murder her boyfriend. We truly live in an age of convenience. One can order clothes, food, and entertainment online with extreme ease. Of course, this also means that it’s becoming that much easier to purchase unsavory things online, such as illicit narcotics, stolen passwords, and even a murder or two. Which is what happened when an

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  Jeff Francis · December 16, 2017 · 5:30 am
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Regulation, News, News teaser

  EU, Interpol Form ‘TITANIUM’ Consortium to Stop Criminal Use of Virtual Currencies

  The European Union’s (EU) latest attempt to centralize data from decentralized systems comes in the form of dark web project TITANIUM. ‘Consortium’ Tackles ‘Criminal Use Of Dark Web’ Sponsored by the Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT) under the auspices of the European Commission, a fifteen-strong “consortium” made up of seven EU member states will look at how to “prevent criminal use of the dark web and virtual currencies.” TITANIUM, which stands for Tools for

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  Wilma Woo · June 5, 2017 · 1:50 pm
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Breaking News Brief, Breaking Bitcoin News, Breaking News, News, News teaser

  Kripos Shuts Down Major Dark Web Drugs Marketplace

  Ever since the Silk Road platform came to fruition, Bitcoin seems to become a favourite form of payment across dark web marketplaces. Kripos, the Norwegian Police Service’s specialized agency, is close to concluding their largest operation – dubbed Marco Polo –  against a drug ring on the dark web. Also read: BitcoinAverage: Craig Wright Can’t Keep Bitcoin Down For Long The Marco Polo Operation and Bitcoin On The Dark Web The dark web is attracting

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  Jp Buntinx · May 10, 2016 · 5:11 am
• Bitcoin, Bitcoin Breaking News Brief, Bitcoin Technology, Blockchain Technology, Breaking Bitcoin News, Breaking News, Companies, News, News teaser

  Bitcoin Mixing Services Were Never Meant to Be A Part of Digital Currency

  Whether or not Bitcoin mixing services will ever be very useful to the Bitcoin ecosystem, remains to be seen for now. Digital currency was never intended to be anonymous, and any service claiming to provide something else requires users to put their funds and faith into the hands of a third party. Plus, users have to rely on Tor to access certain Bitcoin mixing services, which only makes the whole process even more complicated. Not

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  Jp Buntinx · February 3, 2016 · 9:13 am
• Bitcoin, News, News teaser, Trending

  Synthetic Cannabis Proliferates On The Dark Web

  Weed and mushrooms aren’t the only drugs you can get on the dark web with Bitcoin. According to the Irish Mirror, teenagers are using the digital currency to buy so-called synthetic cannabis — known popularly as Spice — on online dark web marketplaces. Children as young as 14 are purchasing the “legal highs,” which are not against the law in the UK and other countries. Many users of legal highs — in the US, UK and

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  Justin OConnell · February 1, 2016 · 5:43 pm
• Altcoin News, Altcoin reviews, Altcoins, Bitcoin, News, Reviews, Uncategorized

  Darkcoin – the word’s truly instantaneous and untraceable digital currency

  Privacy has been one of the most desired features in digital currencies that bitcoin hasn’t been able to offer. Evan Duffield is a software developer that has been on a quest to create a crypto currency that he hopes will soon be the perfect internet cash: untraceable and instantaneous. Early this year he created Darkcoin – believed to be the first true anonymous, secure and untraceable crypto currency. Unlike Bitcoin and Bitcoin-based alt-coins which have transparent electronic transactions, Darkcoin can be equated with online cash due to its private/anonymous transactions that resemble the anonymity of private cash transactions.

  Nuno Menezes · November 4, 2014 · 5:03 am