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Bitcoin fell 2% after the U.S. government moved 3,940 Bitcoin seized from a Silk Road vendor. origin »
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Supreme Court allows US to sell 69,370 Bitcoin seized from Silk Road, setting up a $4.4 billion Bitcoin auction. The post Supreme Court clears path for US to sell $4.4 billion in seized Silk Road Bitcoin appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2024-10-8 01:32 | |
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US government takes complete ownership of 69,370 Bitcoin (BTC) linked to Silk Road
2023-12-21 10:40 | |
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Silk Road showed people that bitcoin could be effectively used as a medium of exchange on an open marketplace.
2022-11-4 03:00 | |
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When $1 billion in bitcoin (BTC) moved on Nov 3, 2020, from a Silk Road wallet, speculations were aplomb. The US government soon revealed that they had taken the bitcoin in the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history.
2020-11-7 22:08 | |
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According to blockchain tracker Elliptic, 69,369 BTC worth almost $1 billion has been on the move. This BTC originated from a wallet that may be associated with the Silk Road website that once attracted 150,000 buyers and 4,000 vendors and facilitated total sales of $183 million.
2020-11-4 16:50 | |
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A wallet possibly belonging to early darknet market Silk Road moved almost $1 billion-worth of bitcoin early on Wednesday.
2020-11-4 13:56 | |
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A Silk Road-related address has moved $1 bln worth of Bitcoin
2020-11-4 09:40 | |
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The original Silk Road marketplace has been shut down for well over seven years now and to this day, 444,000 bitcoin worth $4. 8 billion is still missing. Just recently, a report focused on those funds discusses one of the market’s biggest mysteries and how people have seemingly forgotten about this massive stash.
2020-10-13 22:30 | |
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For many Bitcoiners, the online marketplace Silk Road has become a touchstone in BTC's story — as has the fate of its founder, Ross Ulbricht. The post The Long and Winding Story of Silk Road, Bitcoin’s Earliest Major Application appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2020-10-1 17:12 | |
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Bitcoin's darknet ambitions have changed since Silk Road During its early days, before Bitcoin became "fool's gold" for get-rich-quick investors, it was used as the main currency on the darknet.
2020-7-26 17:00 | |
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With Bitcoin failing to break past the highs it established earlier this year, there have been some commentators seriously considering a steep correction. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road and one of the cryptocurrency’s earliest adopters, postulated that there’s a serious chance Bitcoin could revisit the $3,000s and maybe even lower. Ulbricht cited […]
2020-6-17 03:00 | |
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Writing from prison, Ross Ulbricht predicts the third wave of Bitcoin may result in prices rarely dropping below $20,000
2020-4-27 03:45 | |
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One of the most recognizable and well-regarded names in the Bitcoin space is American programmer Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht, who is also known by his online moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts,” is known for running the Silk Road, the infamous dark web marketplace known for catalyzing much of the early adoption of crypto.
2020-4-26 01:00 | |
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Yes, you read that right. Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht predicts that the price of Bitcoin could eventually reach $333 mln (but it might take quite a while)
2020-4-24 21:28 | |
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The founder of the Silk Road marketplace, Ross Ulbricht, has published another analysis that attempts to predict the price of bitcoin. Ulbricht started sharing his price examinations last December and he leveraged the patterns of Elliott Wave theory to bolster his forecast.
2020-4-16 19:10 | |
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Ross Ulbricht is predicting that Bitcoin’s price will move downward in the short term, drawing a parallel to a previous years-long cycle that led the flagship cryptocurrency through several waves of volatility.
2020-4-13 17:30 | |
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Forget about $100,000. 'Dread Pirate Roberts' Ross Ulbricht expects the leading cryptocurrency to plunge to $1K before another bull run
2020-4-12 11:55 | |
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Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin still haven't fully recovered from their perceived ties to the darknet and Silk Road. While users and early adopters of cryptocurrencies turned to it as an act of defiThe post Bitcoin, cryptocurrency education-lacking governments may be portraying crypto negatively appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-29 12:00 | |
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The use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for criminal endeavors has a long history. From the wild days of the Silk Road to sordid exit scams pulled off during the ICO bubble, the crypto-industry The post Anonymous Bitcoin txns could lead to untoward incidents: Securrency CEO appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-2-3 10:00 | |
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What makes Bitcoin, "BITCOIN?" From eye-catching rallies to deep dives, from the infamous Silk Road debacle to mainstream recognition, Bitcoin has been through it all. In fact, what's attractive aboutThe post Bitcoin's volatility not stopping charities from boarding the crypto-donations hype train appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-1-6 17:28 | |
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Incarcerated Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht uses Elliott Wave to show how bitcoin can hit $100,000 by the end of 2020. The post Incarcerated Silk Road Founder Says Bitcoin Could Hit $100,000 in 2020 appeared first on CCN.com
2019-12-19 21:09 | |
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Ross Ulbricht thinks that the price of Bitcoin is going to have a big upward rise that could lead it to the goal of $100k dollars. According to what Independent reported on December 13, Ulbricht would base its analysis on the Elliot Wave Theory.
2019-12-14 10:00 | |
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Курс Bitcoin поднимется до $100 000, заявил основатель закрытого даркнет-сервиса Silk Road Росс Ульбрихт. В своем блоге он опубликовал график первой криптовалюты, поверх которого провел анализ на основе волновой теории Эллиотта.
2019-12-11 17:01 | |
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The Bitcoin price could hit $100,000 as soon as in 2020 based on Elliot Wave Theory, according to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht
2019-12-11 08:58 | |
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Ross Ulbricht, serving life without parole for allegedly running the Silk Road marketplace, hasn’t allowed his detention to deprive him from monitoring bitcoin’s price action. In a new blog series titled Bitcoin by Ross, Ulbricht reveals that he is closely attuned to BTC’s price movements, and shares some suggestions as to where the market might […] The post Ross Ulbricht Uses Elliot Waves to Predict Bitcoin’s Trajectory From Behind Bars appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-12-11 08:10 | |
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On November 26, a new Silk Road video was published that reveals underreported and never-before-seen information. The film called the “Silk Road Case: The Real, Untold Story” contains over 400 references to direct evidence from a wide range of sources.
2019-12-1 04:15 | |
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Bitcoin's prominence as an uncensored asset became public after it powered the initial boom of emerging darknet marketplaces such as the Silk Road. Cedric Dahl, CEO of 1000x, featured on the latest edThe post Monero, other privacy coins among least-used coins on darknet appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-13 19:30 | |
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Hugh Brian Haney, a former narcotics dealer, has pled guilty to charges of laundering over $19 million USD of his profits that were raised illegally using Silk Road, a prominent dark web market. Now, according to the prosecutors of the Southern District of New York, a plea deal was struck and Haney will go to […]
2019-11-9 00:15 | |
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Brian Haney, a former narcotics trafficker, pled guilty to charges that he laundered $19 million in bitcoin on Silk Road.
2019-11-8 12:00 | |
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“It’s clear that the political establishment wants to hold back a future where economic freedom is afforded to all.” This excerpt from Congressional hopeful Agatha Bacelar’s campaign donation page echoes what many within the cryptosphere have been saying ever since Satoshi Nakamoto dropped the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 – and what many libertarians have been […] The post Congressional Hopeful Agatha Bacelar Talks Silk Road on the Bitcoin.com Podcast appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-11-8 03:55 | |
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For those interested in bitcoin's history, you will have surely came across the Silk Road phenomena as it was the first-ever dark web marketplace who used bitcoin exclusively that got started in February 2011, roughly two years after the Bitcoin network began in January 2009.
2019-11-5 03:17 | |
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U.S. representative Ann Wagner noted at a recent hearing that child pornographic material has been reported on Facebook more than any other site. Lyn Ulbricht, mother of currently imprisoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, spoke out in a video livestream Wednesday against her son’s unfair sentencing and the hypocrisy of allowing sites like Zuckerberg’s to […] The post Lyn Ulbricht Speaks Out Against Unfair Silk Road Sentencing and Government Hypocrisy appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-10-26 23:16 | |
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The Beijing-based Bitmain Technologies and DMG Blockchain Solutions announced the launch of a 25MW mining facility in Rockdale, Texas. The new mine aims to bolster Bitmain’s international expansion which will soon expand to 50MW of processing power and then extend the operation’s capacity to more than 300MW.
2019-10-23 08:00 | |
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Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U. S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take down the Silk Road when she was working for the Attorney General’s office.
2019-10-23 01:25 | |
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The bust of one of the biggest child porn sites, Welcome to Video, on the deep web echoed the crackdown of Silk Road, a darknet marketplace. This bust, however, was quite different from that of Silk Road, with the only thing common between them being Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency named as the go-to for dark web […] The post The lowdown on how Bitcoin cracked the largest child porn business in the world appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-10-18 19:07 | |
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“I think the government should be required to have a warrant to delve into our internet activity. Even the Supreme Court did not address this, leaving all of us vulnerable to secret government surveillance of what we do on the internet.
2019-10-12 19:00 | |
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“Bitcoin didn’t start out as money, it became money,” read a letter drafted by Ross Ulbricht, the infamous creator of darknet website, Silk Road. Being one of the first to spread Bitcoin’s use and mass adoption, Ulbricht highlighted how Bitcoin, while having no prior value, became a medium of exchange without force.
2019-9-26 21:30 | |
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One of the biggest crypto exchanges, Bitwise, believes the market is ready to accept the Bitcoin ETF. Matt Hougan, global head of research at Bitwise said: “A lot of people have a view of the crypto market that is anchored somewhere in the past … maybe in Silk Road, maybe in the 2018 bear market. […]
2019-9-21 19:02 | |
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Since the birth of the Silk Road, there’s been a cat and mouse game between global law enforcement and darknet market (DNM) operators. Over the last two years, law enforcement agencies have knocked out a slew of markets like Hansa and the massive Alphabay.
2019-9-9 22:00 | |
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Bitcoin has reached an interesting inflection point. Whereas at one point its primary use was for black market sites like Silk Road, bitcoin has now found an almost universal appeal. It has become attractive to people dealing with economic catastrophes, as well as to institutional investors like JP Morgan, Fidelity, and the Yale Endowment fund.
2019-9-10 19:51 | |
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It’s been said that those who protest the loudest are often the ones who are guilty, and when it comes to government and their pet corporations, things are no different. No surprise, then, that the blustery moralizing — and violent state force brought to bear against businesses — are most intense where the money and […] The post Mega Drug Pushers Johnson & Johnson Get Away While Peaceful Silk Road Is Destroyed appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-8-28 03:15 | |
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Silk Road launched in February 2011 as the darknet’s first bitcoin-based marketplace. Within four months, it would be the darknet’s most notorious site whose reputation extended all the way to the U.
2019-8-19 12:02 | |
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Irish man Gary Davis, also known as “Libertas,” has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for helping to run the now defunct Silk Road website on the dark web. The Irish national, who was extradited to the US in July last year, was arrested in January 2014.
2019-7-26 17:35 | |
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A drug dealer from Ohio gets arrested 6 years after Silk Road was shut down and is charged with attempts to launder Bitcoins earned on selling drugs
2019-7-24 14:58 | |
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Bitcoin has evolved from the dark web and the silk road, to become an asset that is being considered by investing moguls and reputed financial institutions from around the world. It has ushered a new era of digitization where everything from stocks and real estate, to gold and bonds are being digitized.
2019-7-24 09:00 | |
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Silk Road, a dark web drug market founded by Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonymous nickname “Dread Pirate Roberts” has had a critical impact on Bitcoin. While it’s associated with the dark web marketplace has forever left a stain on the crypto asset, Bitcoin may also not be where it is today if it didn’t catch.
2019-7-24 04:00 | |
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Peter Switzer of the Switzer Financial Group says Bitcoin is unnecessary and should be banned. Again With the Pre-Enlightenment FUD Every so often, anti-Bitcoin rhetoric rears its head. Most times, the sentiments expressed appear to be no more educated than the FUD espoused by BTC critics immediately after Silk Road and Mt.
2019-7-8 18:01 | |
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Vancouver Police Department Accused of Withholding $2. 5m in Bitcoin Despite the fact that the Bitcoin-friendly Silk Road in its original form is now long gone, there still remain court cases on the subject matter.
2019-6-30 23:57 | |
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Vancouver police have been accused of misleading a justice of the peace in a plot to seize $2. 6 million (CAD$3. 5 million) in Bitcoin owned by a dark web marijuana trafficker, CBC reports. Authorities believe the Bitcoin, found on hard drives seized in 2013, to be the proceeds of illegal activity — specifically the selling of large amounts of cannabis via seminal dark web marketplace Silk Road.
2019-6-29 17:07 | |
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The President-Elect promised pardons for the protestors and to commute Ulbricht's sentence when he was on the campaign trail.
The United States DoJ has charged the operator of crypto exchange AurumXchange with money laundering.
Bitcoin looks wobbly as the US government prepares to auction off 69,370 bitcoins seized from the Silk Road marketplace.
Шокирующее заявление от известного криптосыщика TruthLabs, опубликованное на платформе X, породило взрывную волну споров вокруг одного из крупнейших проектов криптоиндустрии — Ethereum. В заявлении утверждается, что Ethereum был создан на базе украденных BTC.
Scott Johnsson, a general partner and general counsel at Van Buren Capital, believes the U.S. government’s recent move to transfer Bitcoin linked to the defunct Silk Road online marketplace to a Coinbase address means the funds are on the verge…
Биткоин на Silk Road снова начал двигаться после того, как кошелек правительства США отправил 10 000 BTC на Coinbase. Правительство США перевело биткоины на сумму $593,5 млн на предпочтительную криптоброкерскую платформу Coinbase Prime 14 августа.
Экс-президент США Дональд Трамп собрал 25 миллионов долларов пожертвований на свою предвыборную кампанию в ходе конференции Bitcoin 2024, состоявшейся в Нэшвилле. Об этом сообщил организатор мероприятия и CEO Bitcoin Magazine Дэвид Бэйли.