Programmer Ross Ulbricht is serving a double-life sentence for starting The Silk Road, a website on the dark web that traded guns and drugs for crypto. Prosecutors also have evidence of six murder-for-hire schemes that he has not been charged with. More than any other single person including Satoshi Nakamoto, Ulbricht is responsible for the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency. And, according to his Twitter feed, he is also learning how to rock.
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Iceland heist story gets crazier as suspect escapes prison, uses PM’s plane as getaway
Seriously, our favorite story of the year keeps getting better
Police in Iceland called off the nationwide search for an escaped prisoner on Wednesday after airport security footage showed him boarding a plane to Sweden. The prisoner, Sindri Þór Stefánsson, was believed to be the ringleader of the $2 million “Big Bitcoin Heist,” the largest crime in the nation’s history. Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir was also on board. Police estimate that Stefánsson slipped out a window of the low security Sognið prison sometime after 1 a.m. Prison officials cannot say what time they last saw him or how he escaped, mostly because they don’t know. The remote prison doesn’t have bars or even a fence around its perimeter. Prisoners…
