In a Nov. 5 filing, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that it is seizing nearly 70,000 bitcoins and several other cryptocurrencies that were stolen from the infamous Silk Road darknet market. The Nov. 3 transfer gained a lot of attention in the cryptocurrency community, with blockchain intelligence firm CipherTrace speculating that either the wallet’s owner was moving the bitcoins to a more up-to-date wallet address, or that another hacker had cracked the wallet.
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The Case against Craig Wright, Part I (2009-2011)
A #Faketoshi hobbyist walks us through the details behind accusations that Craig Wright lied and forged proofs that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto
The problem is that people who claim Craig Wright is a fraud are mostly disorganized. So today we are just going to put it all out on the table. For that we look to Arthur van Pelt, a Dutch "bitcoin entrepreneur" who spends his free time digging for information that will debunk Wright's claim to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Criminals are using bitcoin more than ever for illegal activity
If police shut down one darknet market, another one opens
After a small dip in criminal activity in 2018, total dark market activity, which included mainly drug sales but also things like stolen credit cards, soared 70% in 2019 to more than $790 million, according to a report released Tuesday by cryptocurrency forensic firm Chainalysis.
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EXCLUSIVE Craig Wright: If I produce Nakamoto’s bitcoins my critics will say I stole them
And why he chose that particular Times of London article for the Bitcoin Genesis Block
Yesterday, nChain chief scientist and self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright’s attorneys told a judge that the “bonded courier” he has long maintained held the encryption keys to Nakamoto’s 1.1 million bitcoins had arrived. He doesn’t believe even that will quiet his critics.
