Ten years after Silk Road falls, Variety Jones is sentenced
July 15, 2023
The sentencing of Silk Road’s Variety Jones, aka Plural of Mongoose, aka cimon, aka Ross Ulbricht’s mentor, aka Roger Thomas Clark was held at 10:00am
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So what’s been happening on the Dark Web?
September 27, 2016
The problem with writing a new book is that you save all the good stuff for the book and that leaves you with nothing for
Ugly kids are cheaper – The Besa Files
May 18, 2016
Another story from the dark web “murder-for-hire” site hack. Read The Curious Case of Besa Mafia first. There are stories of people paying real money, verifiable
If you found it by browsing, it’s probably not dark web
August 1, 2015
Fun fact: the proper technical term for dark web sites is hidden services. It’s easy to forget what this implies, but as I’ve been researching
Did Silk Road plagiarise Landmark’s charter?
January 18, 2015
Last month a friend who had just started reading my book rang me almost hyperventilating. “It’s Landmark!” she said. “It’s fucking Landmark!” She had noticed
Scales of Injustice – Silk Road’s SSBD
February 12, 2014
SSBD had no role to play in the Silk Road marketplace where drugs were bought and sold. He was a moderator of the Silk Road discussion
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
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
Who’s got it in for the Silk Road?
January 23, 2013
Ever since the suspected DDoS attack in November, the admins at Silk Road have been combating a number of different scams and attacks on the
What the hell’s going on at Silk Road?
November 16, 2012
For two weeks, users of online drugs marketplace Silk Road have been unable to log in to the site more often than not, reporting timeouts,
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