Paul Howard Was The First Silk Road Vendor To be Arrested
The Australian Federal Police raided the house of Paul Howard and made the arrest in 2012. The Silk Road platform will forever remain a notorious time in the history of Bitcoin. Although it was shut down in 2013, vendor arrests occurred as early as 2012. The first seller to be arrested was Paul Howard. Although very few information about his case was known until now, information is slowly becoming available. Paul Howard, who went by the nickname “shadh1”, was the first-ever Silk Road vendor to be arrested. Law enforcement officials did not use any malicious software to hack Tor or anything....
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