Sinister New Site 'Assassination Market' Enables Users to Contribute Bitcoins for Murder of US Officials
On the same evening that bitcoin advocates Jerry Brito and Patrick Murck went to testify on Capitol Hill alongside Jennifer Shasky Calvery from FinCEN, a report published online by Forbes underlines the sinister challenges that lie before law enforcement when dealing with the threats posed by virtual currencies, and bitcoin in particular. The report is about Assassination Market, a disturbing site that enables people to contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of one of a number of government officials. While assassination markets are not a new idea, and were initially proposed by....
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The most resilient torrent directory in the world, the Pirate Bay, has been raided by Swedish police for the first time since 2006. Also read: Peter Sunde Released. Update 12/10/14 2:56AM CST: the Pirate Bay is alive and well in Costa Rica. The Pirate Bay Gets Raided. The site routinely goes down for various reasons from hacking to overload, so initially it was unclear to regular users whether or not the site's unavailability was due to regular issues, their Internet providers blocking access, or something more sinister. But according to Swedish news outlets, the site's data center was....