Russian crypto traders have been looking to obtain unrestricted accounts for global exchanges as their access to such platforms is limited. Over the past year, the offering of such accounts…

Following the demise of the largest darknet marketplace (DNM) in mid-July 2017, the underground market Alphabay returned in August 2021, and during the last year, Alphabay has managed to once…

Silk Road showed people that bitcoin could be effectively used as a medium of exchange on an open marketplace. This is an opinion editorial by Jacob Kozhipatt, a YouTuber and…

“Through the rise and fall of Silk Road, through the relentless years of my incarceration … Bitcoin keeps going.” This is an opinion editorial by Ross Ulbricht, the founder of…

A deep dive into how Bitcoin’s lack of privacy and, by extension, its insufficient fungibility has led to its loss of market share in darknet markets. If you wanted to…