Dark Web

State of the darkmarkets: Pandora compromised?

September 5, 2014

One of the members of Onionland recently created a searchable version of the original Silk Road forums. As you do, I went on a little

Remember, Remember… Silk Road redux

November 7, 2013

It’s been just over a month since Silk Road got seized and Ross Ulbricht, allegedly the site’s founder Dread Pirate Roberts, was arrested. A new Silk

This tinfoil hat fits me well

October 19, 2013

Since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, allegedly Silk Road’s Dread Pirate Roberts, conspiracy theories have been coming thick and fast and they range from the

About this $1.2 billion crap…

October 18, 2013

I owe much of this post to the work of Nicolas Christin, the researcher who previously provided the analysis of Silk Road’s income. He is

The road’s closed to these drugs

October 8, 2013

Hey, if the person who emailed me an encrypted message headed “Scoop” and said they wouldn’t be going back to that email addy could re-send

How many pirates are there? An update

October 7, 2013

If the Bitcointalk hackers are reading this, can you please let me know if I’m a lousy journo and missed the smoking gun, or if

The Race to Create Silk Road 2.0

October 6, 2013

Whilst many vendors and buyers have migrated to Silk Road’s two remaining competitors, Black Market Reloaded and Sheep Marketplace, other members have been working around

Did Dread Pirate Roberts get scammed on an alleged hit?

October 3, 2013

According to FBI documents, Dread Pirate Roberts claims to have carried out one hit and was haggling on price for another. But was he the

The beginning of the end?

October 3, 2013

And so timezones screwed me over and I’ve just woken up to the news that the Dread Pirate Roberts has been arrested. I haven’t even

The Fall of Atlantis – a Moderator tells

September 26, 2013

“Atlantis admins shut down the site and ran away with the coins. It’s the truth.” – Cicero, Moderator of Atlantis Marketplace forum A little under

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