View of a Bitcoin sign announcing the acceptance of the crypto for payments at the San Salvador Historical Center on June 22, 2022 in San Salvador, El Salvador. (Photo by Kellys Portillo/APHOTOGRAFIA/Getty Images)
Silk Road shuttered in October 2013 after a high-profile FBI investigation ended with the arrest of Ross Ulbricht who is now serving a double life sentence in…
AlphaBay operated for three years as a marketplace on the Tor network, rising as a leader among dark web marketplaces due to its speed, reliability and availability of goods that separated the site from its competitors. (Flickr)
It's clear that the increasingly popular security technology poses significant challenges for law enforcement. In both the US and UK, cops chose to circumvent the technology entirely…