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Research unveils the key moment that transformed chickens into the economically relevant animals that they are today
Chickens, integral to the world's economy today, stand as one of the most consequential animals glo…
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Trump just spotlighted Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online illegal drug marketplace Silk Road. Here's why he's a hero to some.
Donald Trump is appealing to the Libertarians by promising to commute Silk Road founder Ross Ulbric…
Rebecca Rommen
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The Feds are transferring bitcoin to Coinbase from a $2 billion crypto wallet seized from Silk Road
The Silk Road was a global e-commerce site for illegal drugs, weapons, and other illicit activities…
Matthew Fox
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The Justice Department said that it seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin stolen a decade ago through the 'Silk Road' dark web
The Justice Department said Monday that it seized the bitcoin from a 32-year-old man in Georgia who…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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The jailed founder of The Silk Road dark web marketplace is minting NFTs for charity — and a DAO has been formed to buy them and protest his imprisonment
Bidding for the Ross Ulbricht Genesis Collection of NFTs reached about $1.8 million as of late Frid…
Carla Mozée
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The IRS predicts billions in cryptocurrency seizures from fraud schemes next year after taking $3.5 billion this year
One of the high-profile cases this past year was the $1 billion seizure of thousands of bitcoin rel…
Natasha Dailey
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Monero’s ‘Fluffypony’ joins Ross Ulbricht and Arthur Hayes behind bars — but for a non-crypto crime
The former developer of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Monero, Riccardo Spagni — also known online…
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Research on human-cat link on ancient Silk Road
New Delhi, July 10 (IANSlife) In some news for cat lovers, new analyses done on an almost-complete …
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Humans have been smoking marijuana for 2,500 years — and now, there's proof
Scientists have found proof of humans burning marjiuana in pots at a cemetery in China as far as 2,…
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Here’s why India hasn’t joined the multi-billion dollar ‘21st century Silk Road’ regional connectivity project
China’s regional forum for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) - dubbed the “21st Century Silk Road”…
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Dominance or development? What’s at the end of China’s New Silk Road?
Written in flowing Khmer and Mandarin is a quote from the China-friendly strongman likening th…
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Authorities just took down AlphaBay, an online black market 10 times bigger than Silk Road
"What this meant, in particular, was that we could identify and disrupt the regular criminal activi…
Kif Leswing
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative is stoking fear across Southeast Asia
Many more countries are viewing China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with suspicion. …
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The founder of Silk Road deserves a harsh sentence
For Ross, a fun-loving, well-educated twenty-six-year-old, the creation of Silk Road had begun in e…
Shane Ferro
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Silk Road Users Are 'Cautiously Optimistic' About Silk Road 2.0
"[It] underscores the inescapable reality that technology is dynamic and ever-evolving and that gov…
Dylan Love
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The story of Silk Road: How to lie to yourself, build a billion dollar 'startup' and wind up in prison for life
"Friends in the real world would say things to him like, 'Why don't you try this business idea or w…
Julie Bort
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Founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace sentenced to life in prison
Dratel repeatedly claimed that somebody else took over the site after Ulbricht started and expanded…
Natasha Bertrand,Michael B Ke…
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Why the founder of Silk Road got life in prison without parole
Judge Forrest's finding that Silk Road was not a victimless experiment but a "demand-expanding oper…
Natasha Bertrand
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How an IRS agent discovered the identity of the Silk Road kingpin using Google searches
By the middle of 2013, Ulbricht had built Silk Road into a "dark web" marketplace that facilitated …
Nathan McAlone
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The case against Silk Road's 31-year-old founder was unprecedented
Ulbricht's supporters have expressed fears that his conviction could open the door to criminal liab…