Tagged: dea

June 8, 2020 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Coinbase confirms that it experienced an outage on June 1, 2020, that reportedly affected the operations of Coinbase.com (mainly for regular or retail traders), Coinbase Pro for professional or institutional traders, and it also impacted the exchange’s mobile applications. Not all cryptocurrency… Read More

January 2, 2019 @ 4:00 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ross Ulbricht, the jailed founder one of the Dark Net’s first black marketplaces, Silk Road, has written to longtime Bitcoiner and Bitcoin Cash founder Roger Ver to appeal for his help in getting a presidential pardon. Ulbricht, 34, was sentenced in 2015 to two life… Read More

October 22, 2018 @ 9:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

Gal Vallerius, a dual French-Israeli citizen from the Brittany region of France, was sentenced to 20 years in prison earlier this month after pleading guilty to, “conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to launder money,” court documents indicate. Mr Vallerius,… Read More

August 7, 2018 @ 9:07 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An overwhelming majority of bitcoin transactions are taking place between speculators, says Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Agent Lilita Infante. Infante told Bloomberg recently that in the five years since she began doing forensics on Bitcoin’s immutable ledger, the ratio of illegal activity she detects being… Read More

June 30, 2018 @ 10:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

The American Department of Justice (DOJ) announced June 26th that its “First Nationwide Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Vendors” has resulted in the arrest and charge of 35 individuals accused of selling illicit goods in the Internet underworld. The comprehensive, inter-agency dragnet also seized guns, drugs,… Read More