CCN Week in Review: Mt. Gox, Dogecoin, Silk Road 2.0, and More
This week on CCN, we learned about the Mt. Gox fiasco, Bobby Lee's future of Bitcoin in China, Dogecoin's success, the Silk Road 2.0 hack, and much more! Here are some of our top stories this week in case you missed them. Mt. Gox Suspends all Bitcoin Withdrawals. On 7 February, Mt. Gox issued a press release stating that a technical issue with Bitcoin has caused them to halt all Bitcoin withdrawals. The issue is known as transaction malleability, and has been well-known for at least 2 years. Basically, an attacker could change a Bitcoin transaction's unique ID before the transaction is....
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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. This week (2 November - 9 November), Silk Road 2.0 and various other similar services were taken down by the FBI, bitcoin tipping app ChangeTip went viral, the bitcoin price has been on the rise, and more. Keep scrolling for this week's top stories. Also read: Bitcoin News in Review: SEC, Bitcoin Price, Hacks, and More. Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down. Exactly one year after it went live, Silk Road 2.0 was shut down by the FBI and Europol this week on November 6th. The....
With the end of the week already here, it means it's time for another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of our top stories here on CryptoCoins News. This week, we learned the results of the Silk Road bitcoin auction, saw interesting trends in the price of BTC, saw the author of bit gold break his long silence, and more. Check out this Bitcoin News in Review after the break. Silk Road Auction Winners and Losers. The results are in. The U. S. government recently auctioned off the ~30,000 bitcoins it seized from Silk Road, with the final bidding ending on June 27th. Firms such as....
The latest reincarnation of the deep web marketplace, in the form of Silk Road 3.0 is started by the people behind Crypto Market. Will they be able to live up to the expectations? Silk Road is reincarnated for the fourth time. The deep web marketplace is back online after its predecessors were forcibly shut down by the law enforcement agencies resulting in the creator’s arrest and incarceration. Silk Road used to be a network of trade routes traversing through the whole of Asian continent to connect with the Mediterranean Sea. It originally got its name for being the route taken by the....
The FBI shut down black marketplace Silk Road a year ago. This hidden website was used for the sale and purchase of items and services such as drugs, weapons, fake passports and other forged documents. To refresh your memory of the full Silk Road story, check out our interactive timeline below: This article is part of CoinDesk's Silk Road: One Year On series. Keep checking back for new additions to the series. Road. Silk RoadTimelines
If reports are to be believed, a new version of the online drug marketplace Silk Road - "Silk Road Reloaded" - has been launched recently. It is only a coincidence that the new Silk Road's introduction arrived only after the death of its predecessor Silk Road 2. In fact, our research revealed that Silk Road Reloaded was in development for over a year. This somewhat indicates that the makers of previous versions may not be backing this new project after all. And it reflects in the outcome as well. Silk Road Reloaded apparently uses "I2P" instead of the Fed's favorite Tor. I2P stands for....