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Digital Currency Group's Genesis Trading and bitcoin hedge fund Binary Financial are set to participate in a government auction of bitcoin this week. 
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The US government on Monday announced that it is auctioning the last remaining Bitcoin belonging to the now-defunct underground marketplace Silk Road
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A former U.S.Secret Service agent who was part of a team investigating illegal activity on the online drug market Silk Road has pleaded guilty to money laundering and obstruction of justice, prosecutors announced Monday. ...
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Former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges plead guilty to stealing over US$800,000; a Goldman Sachs global investment research analyst praised blockchain technology, and more news
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IBTimes UK spoke to 'bad-ass crypto cops' Assistant US Attorney Kathryn Haun and Special Agent Tigran Gambaryan.
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A former undercover agent involved in the investigation into Silk Road admits stealing more than $700,000 in Bitcoin - most of it siphoned from the site.
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Carl M Force, part of federal taskforce that penetrated illicit online marketplace, ended up siphoning off more than $700,000 in digital currency for himself
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A U.S. crackdown on use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes is headed for its highest-profile test yet, as a trial begins f...
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Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News.
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A leading bitcoin entrepreneur pleaded guilty Thursday in New York to illegally helping a dealer sell $1 million in bitcoins to customers on Silk Road, a Dark Web site where users could anonymously buy and sell contraband and drugs.
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reddit: the front page of the internet (Interesting interview with the mother of the accused creator of #SilkRoad. Retweet, watch, and donate!
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Editor’s Note: Charlie Shrem has responded publicly by clarifying that he has not been banned from any conferences. A misreading of events caused by verbiage which CCN profusely apologizes for initially printing. Shrem has responded to CCN inquiries from earlier today and will release a full statement on the happenings soon.
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Next week, the US Marshals will auction-off the $18 million or-so worth of Bitcoin that the FBI gained when it seized the online black market Silk Road.
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Back in April, the Silk Road defence lawyer Joshua Dratel tried to save his client, Ross Ulbricht, by throwing Bitcoin under the bus. Now, the FBI is investigating Mt. Gox and a number of other bitcoin exchanges in connection with Silk Road.
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The news: One of bitcoin's biggest backers, Bitcoin Foundation vice chair and BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, was arrested Sunday night at New York's JFK airport for violating money transmission rules.
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Answer: There was some speculation that the creator of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, may be linked to the founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht.
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Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road, and the secretive inventor of bitcoin, the anonymous online currency, used to make Silk Road purchases.
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A powerful legal precedent may arise if Ross Ulbricht is forced to reveal the passphrase and private key to the bitcoin wallet holding Silk Road's earnings.
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We’re learning more today about Ross Ulbricht, the 29-year-old tech entrepreneur authorities say operated “Silk Road,” an e-commerce website described as the Internet’s largest and most sophisticated criminal marketplace.
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Events surrounding the means by which digital currency transactions are carried out have given way to a litany of speculative opinions which now adorn many crypto-currency related forums and portals, the most recent being the US government’s seizure of Silk Road.
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Snowden’s latest bombshell, published by the Washington Post, shares details of NSA’s infiltration of Tor, an Internet browser that cloaks its users in anonymity. Meanwhile, the FBI shuttered the black market online drug seller Silk Road and arrested its founder, Ross Ulbricht, for narcotics trafficking, computer hacking conspiracy, and money laundering conspiracy.
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The bitcoin community mocks the FBI, sending messages to the address used for seizing Silk Road's funds.
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Hundreds of protest messages have flooded an FBI-controlled Bitcoin account since it seized $3m from Silk Ro
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