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Chainalysis’ chief economist sits down with Daniel Kuhn to talk about how to cut crypto use in the cybercrime ghetto.
2019-11-29 18:00 | |
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There aren’t many areas of modern society unaffected by the draconian war on drugs, and non-violent crypto exchange is no exception. Two San Diego men in their twenties reportedly pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of money laundering conspiracy, for selling cannabis on the darknet for bitcoin and operating an unlicensed crypto exchange service.
2019-10-2 16:00 | |
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Learn how cryptocurrency is impacting the global drug trade in Cointelegraph's new article
2019-9-8 18:48 | |
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Neil Walsh, chief of the cybercrime and anti-money laundering arm of the United Nations' department on drugs and crime, has stated that the "anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing" aspects of cryptocurrencies have made it extremely difficult to combat terrorist financing, money laundering, and cybercrime.
2019-8-31 19:58 | |
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India’s Special Investigation Team [SIT] has observed a growing network of criminal gangs using cryptocurrencies for illicit activities like laundering money and smuggling drugs, reported Firstpost.
2019-8-31 19:30 | |
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Cryptocurrencies provide a "new layer of secrecy that favors the criminals," said a top-ranking staffer of the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime.
2019-8-30 05:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: A senior UN official, Neil Walsh, claims that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made the task of fighting money laundering, terror financing, and cybercrime tougher than ever due to the relative anonymity they allegedly offer.
2019-8-30 17:53 | |
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California resident Sky Justin Gornik has been convicted of selling drugs for cryptocurrencies in darknet markets. According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, the man aged 39 pleaded guilty to using the Alpha Bay, Trade Route, Abraxas, Evolution, Outlaw Market, and Dream Market trading floors to trade fentanyl, carfentanil, ketamine, oxycodone, amphetamine, […]
2019-8-21 21:24 | |
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A man has been sentenced in San Diego, California, for conspiring to sell opioids and other drugs over dark web markets for cryptocurrencies.
2019-8-20 11:17 | |
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A man has been sentenced in San Diego, California, for conspiring to sell opioids and other drugs over dark web markets for cryptocurrencies.
2019-8-20 11:17 | |
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Move over, John McAfee, there’s a new crypto candidate for President. Andrew Yang may not have a lifelong love affair with guns and drugs, or the same appetite for risky wagers. But he’s rapidly gained attention in the Democratic Primary race, and unlike McAfee, he’s not fleeing the IRS in a boat.
2019-8-16 00:21 | |
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Bitcoin is used to buying fake ID’s drugs and illicit sex. “I have never done that with Bitcoin,” is Brian Kelly’s response to Bitcoin skeptics. In a recent discussion on CNBC, Brian Kelly, founder & CEO of BKCM LLC, a digital currency investment firm says Bitcoin is finally “traded like a macro kind of asset.” […]
2019-8-9 20:01 | |
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A couple based out of California has pleaded guilty to distributing drugs via a dark-web marketplace in exchange for cryptocurrencies
2019-8-8 00:45 | |
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MediConnect, an upcoming blockchain framework solution to trace and manage prescription medication, has received “indicative support” from the Ugandan government to explore the possibilities of curtailing the spread of counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs.
2019-7-24 21:53 | |
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Mark “Bomber” Thompson, a former premiership coach in the Australian Football League (AFL), has admitted to abusing drugs and trading cryptocurrency. According to Thompson, quitting professional football made him depressed, so he channeled all his energy into high-risk crypto speculation, reports SMH on June 26, 2019.
2019-6-28 13:00 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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By CCN: Roger Ver took to YouTube to read another letter from Ross Ulbricht, creator of the first darknet market using Bitcoin. The libertarian idealist used the opportunity to rail against the war on drugs.
2019-5-12 21:15 | |
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In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
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Two men accused of illicitly selling steroids and controlled substances and laundering millions of dollars have pleaded guilty in New York
2019-4-24 15:19 | |
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By CCN. com: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicted three men for allegedly laundering $2. 3 million in crypto by using debit cards pre-loaded with bitcoin and withdrawing large amounts of cash at ATMs in New York and New Jersey.
2019-4-18 19:13 | |
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“Those who say bitcoin is completely useless are completely wrong,” began Financial Times journalist Jemima Kelly, in an Alphaville article published on April 1st. “[It’s] the currency of choice for people buying drugs, arms and other illicit things.
2019-4-6 20:52 | |
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On BitMEX Crypto Trader Digest, BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes reaffirmed his prediction for bitcoin, foreseeing the dominant cryptocurrency achieving $10,000 in price by the end of 2019. Previously, in mid-2018, when the sentiment around bitcoin was still generally optimistic, Hayes said that the asset had not found its bottom and is likely to fall below $5,000.
2019-3-23 17:49 | |
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The Australian cryptocurrency pioneer Sam Karagiozis has been arrested accused of trafficking 30 kilograms of drugs. Mr. Karagiozis informed he lost around $3 million after the cryptocurrency market crash in 2018.
2019-3-11 16:31 | |
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Crypto has become part and parcel of Acapulco, a formed tourist hub that turned into an anarchist capital of the world
2019-3-27 19:36 | |
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Suspicious financial transactions filed by Japan-based cryptocurrency exchanges increased ten times over the previous year, according to the National Police Agency. The central enforcement body said Feb 28 that 7,096 out of the total 417,465 suspected money laundering cases mentioned the use of cryptocurrencies in 2018.
2019-2-28 16:41 | |
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When bitcoin first hit the mainstream media in 2011 when Wired covered the rise of the defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road, it was hard to imagine that the digital currency used to buy drugs on the Internet could become a recognized alternative investment asset that high-net-worth individuals, private banks, and hedge funds are investingRead MoreRead More.
2019-2-28 02:00 | |
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Two women and one man have been arrested for selling drugs over the Dark Web with an unspecified amount of cryptocurrency seized. Australian authorities said in a statement “initial inquiries.
2019-2-15 19:06 | |
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In a particularly interesting case study for the consequence of Bitcoin’s global impact, the internationally recognized terrorist group Hamas has announced that it will accept bitcoin to fund itself.
2019-2-5 21:41 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC), Cryptocurrency, United States–In the midst of the most recent market selloff, which saw most top cryptocurrencies fall to their relative low for 2019, the United States Congress has passed a new bill with interesting stipulations into the study of digital assets.
2019-1-30 05:33 | |
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On December 26th, popular crypto news outlet Cointelegraph has reported that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will partner with Doc. com, a telemedicine and a telepsychology firm to grow on the healthcare services in East Africa.
2018-12-27 19:20 | |
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Drug Dealers In South Korea Arrested After Receiving Payments In Crypto Drug dealers in South Korea have been arrested by local authorities after selling drugs online and accepting virtual currencies as payment.
2018-12-26 19:28 | |
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The legal cannabis industry has a problem – it’s not actually legal. Every time a state like Oklahoma or Maryland legalizes cannabis for medical or recreational use, representatives from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (more popularly known as the ATF) remind the public that cannabis is still a controlled substance by […] The post Drugs And Guns May Not Mix: But Cannabis Companies Can Stay Secure appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-11-24 22:00 | |
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As Representative Brad Sherman of California has helpfully pointed out, cryptocurrency is rat poison and only good for drugs and money laundering. Well, it might be okay if you live in Venezuela or Zimbabwe, or some other military regime where armed potentates have made honest markets impossible.
2018-11-7 19:28 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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On the most recent episode of The Tatiana Show, host Tatiana Moroz opened with an interview with Lyn Ulbricht, leader of the Free Ross campaign, to deliver some recent updates with the struggle to petition the carceral state for his clemency.
2018-10-4 20:31 | |
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Thailand’s institutional advisors, the Institute of Justice (TIJ and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) predict continued misuse of cryptocurrencies by people to engage in a variety of crimes, in the coming days.
2018-9-5 23:58 | |
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A former bitcoin trader from Arizona has been sentenced to 41 months in jail for laundering drugs money with crypto.
2018-8-3 16:00 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency technology has always lent itself to darker themes and nefarious uses. In the beginning days of Bitcoin, the primary use of the currency was on the underground black market.
2018-8-1 12:33 | |
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Celebrities like cryptocurrency. Though many of them don’t really talk about it in the public sphere, why is this? Well, it’s pretty obvious isn’t it, a public association with a cryptocurrency and a celebrity will no doubt leads to that same celebrity being associated with crime lords, fraud, money laundering, drugs and terrorism.
2018-7-31 15:30 | |
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The CEO of MasterCard has said that not only does he think cryptocurrencies are “junk”, but that it is mostly used to fund drugs, child prostitution, and fraud. His concern, however, comes following a disastrous marketing campaign which tied child hunger to World Cup goals.
2018-7-27 17:37 | |
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News It appears that there is an international crackdown on darknet marketplaces trading cryptocurrencies for recreational drugs. Soon after American undercover agents exposed dozens of vendors, European forces conducted what Europol calls “Europe’s biggest ever LSD bust.
2018-7-1 19:26 | |
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It appears that there is an international crackdown on darknet marketplaces trading cryptocurrencies for recreational drugs. Soon after American undercover agents exposed dozens of vendors, European forces conducted what Europol calls “Europe’s biggest ever LSD bust.
2018-7-1 18:25 | |
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This week, the U. S. Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies banded together to bring down some bad actors on the dark web. EOS is undergoing some growing pains with the launch of its network, exposing the trials and tribulations of an all-too-centralized governance model.
2018-6-30 20:56 | |
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Monero (XMR) is hailed as the king of privacy coins and a notable contemporary of Bitcoin (BTC). The cryptocurrency has not been in the news the same way as other cryptocurrencies of its stature, including Bitcoin (BTC).
2018-6-27 22:30 | |
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Electronic music futurist, Gramatik, released a groundbreaking song and accompanying video, highlighting the development of money. With all the trash in popular culture when it comes to cryptocurrency (drugs, terrorism, etc.
2018-6-26 13:25 | |
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Electronic music futurist, Gramatik, released a groundbreaking song and accompanying video, highlighting the development of money. With all the trash in popular culture when it comes to cryptocurrency (drugs, terrorism, etc.
2018-6-26 13:25 | |
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The US Congress has proposed a bill which, if passed and signed in law, would launch a study of crypto usage in the area of sex and drugs trafficking
2018-6-13 03:50 | |
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Bitcoin’s logical behavior, which clearly fits within our balanced forecast, is still mysterious to some analysts from the technical analysis camp. Still, their forecasts for the market also deserve attention.