Silk Road Archives

Bitcoin Entrepreneur Charlie Shrem Released from U.S Prison

July 20, 2016

Good news for advocates of cryptocurrency and the Bitcoin community. A founding member and former vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, Charlie Shrem, has been released from imprisonment by U.S criminal au...

Alleged Silk Road Adviser “Variety Jones” Arrested in Thailand

December 6, 2015

The alleged senior adviser to convicted Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht has been arrested in Thailand and is awaiting extradition to the US for trial. The US Department of Justice unsealed charges of narcot...

Silk Road Scheme Leads To Bitcoin Arrests In US

January 28, 2014

The operators of two Bitcoin exchanges have been arrested in the US following allegations surrounding their involvement in a scheme to sell the virtual currency to users of online drug marketplace Silk Road. ...

First Bitcoin Insurance Service Launches In UK

January 13, 2013

Elliptic Vault, a facility that claims to be the “first in the world” to offer insurance to owners of the Bitcoin virtual currency, has been launched in the UK. According to the BBC, the Bitcoin storage serv...