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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces

Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com

On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.

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[Link] We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

This article is a writeup of the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard’s documentary series about how cryptocurrency is affecting culture, politics, the environment, and our shared future. Watch it on Motherboard’s YouTube.

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[Link] Hardcore Bitcoiners Turn on Ross Ulbricht for Selling an NFT From Prison

Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online drug marketplace the Silk Road that helped put Bitcoin on the map in its earliest days, is minting an NFT.

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[Link] He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history.

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[Link] New law passes giving AFP more power to infiltrate online criminal networks

Read: 25/8/2021 www.news.com.au

Police will have greater powers to infiltrate the dark web to crack down on paedophiles and criminals after a new law passed giving them amped-up surveillance capabilities online.

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[Link] Silk Road member Peter Nash avoids further US prison time

Read: 25/8/2021 www.smh.com.au

New York: An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.

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[Link] Suspected adviser to creator of black market Silk Road arrested in Thailand

Read: 24/8/2021 www.smh.com.au

New York: A Canadian man has been arrested in Thailand for his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold, US prosecutors announced on Friday.

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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.

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