Alleged Sheep Marketplace Owner Identified in Czech Republic
In an update to the two-year-old story of the Sheep Marketplace, Czech authorities have identified what they believe to be the owner, after discovering him trying to launder the money. Sheep Marketplace was a deep web market similar to Silk Road which shut down in December 2013 after claiming to be the victim of a hack, but even at the time this claim was suspicious, because withdrawals had stopped as long as a week prior to the announcement. Biggest Exit Scam in Dark Web History. At the time, the missing Bitcoins were worth around $40 million, almost four times the size of the recent....
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