German TV Show Darknet Stunt Fails Miserably
Typically the media loves to portray the dark side of the deep web with stories of hired hitmen, weapons and people buying illegal drugs. One TV show from Germany was hoping to demonstrate how easy it was to order guns online when they ordered an AK-47 assault rifle with $800 worth of Bitcoin. The show “Fear of terror—how vulnerable is Germany,” produced by ARD also included a victim from the Paris incident according to the German publication Chip. Despite this attempt to bolster a terrorist sensationalism, the film crew and producers never obtained the weapon failing miserably. German TV....
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German media is suggesting that the gun used during the Munich terror attack was bought through the Darknet with Bitcoin. Germany is the latest European country hit by a wave of gun activity with the world still reeling in shock from the news of 18-year-old David Sonboly who killed nine people in the Olympia shopping centre in Munich on Friday. The darknet, which is a type of parallel internet, provides a place for people to buy and sell things illegally such as weapons and drugs and is often used by criminals. Investigators believe that the sale of a gun through the darknet offers a small....
All of this seems to be another attempt by mainstream media to discredit Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is once again making headline news related to a terror attack. According to German media outlets, the weapon used in the Munich shooting has been purchased from the darknet. As is to be expected, this person allegedly paid in Bitcoin for this item, although that has not been officially confirmed at this stage. Germany has been hit by various terrorist attacks as of late, and the Munich shooting was one of the most horrible events to take place. Law enforcement agencies have been....
Furthermore, one of the four arrested individuals possessed Bitcoin at the time of the raid. According to sources, there was 340,000 EUR worth of Bitcoin in his wallet. German police officials have arrested four individuals suspected of selling drugs on the darknet. Keeping in mind how government officials and law enforcement agencies are cracking down on deep web users all over the country, this news is not entirely surprising. All four arrested individuals were active on a German darknet forum. Buying and selling drugs is illegal, and the darknet is no exception to this rule. Then again,....
German authorities are auctioning bitcoin seized from the darknet in cybercrime cases. The auction website reportedly experienced high traffic to bitcoin listings, with 4,000 new registered users over the past few days.
German Government Auctioning Seized Bitcoin
The Justice Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest state by population, announced Monday an auction of bitcoin seized from criminal cases.
Justiz Auktion, the auction website for the ministry, experienced high traffic to the bitcoin listings Monday after the prosecutors began listing the....
Russian officials arrested on Friday the suspected co-founder of the world’s biggest darknet bazaar – Hydra – a week after German and US authorities shut down the platform. According to local media sources, the individual is identified as Dmitry Pavlov, the administrator of the recently shuttered darknet marketplace. Pavlov is being investigated in Russia for […]