The alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog
kept the dark web service running for 10 years prior to t...View MoreThe alleged administrator of Bitcoin Fog
kept the dark web service running for 10 years prior to the
IRS trapped with him.For 10 years, Bitcoin Fog has offered to obscure the origin and
destination of its customers'cryptocurrency, which makes it one of the very venerable institutions in the dark web economy.
Now the IRS says it has finally identified the Russian-Swedish administrator behind that long-running anonymizing system
and charged him with laundering countless an incredible number of dollars worth of bitcoins, much of which was delivered
to or from dark web drug markets. What gave him away? The
trail of his own decade-old digital transactions.
Feds Dismantled the Dark Web Drug Trade—but It's
Already Rebuilding
After recent high-profile dark-web drug market takedowns,
new vendors are actually filling the void.On the dark-web drug dark0de market WorldMarket this
week, business proceeds as usual. "Satisfied customer, will undoubtedly be back,"
writes one user on the merchandise page of a meth dealer
with the handle shardyshardface. "Excellent," reads a plaudit posted
with a buyer of the opiate oxycodone. "Bravo," says another for a
$5 sample of fentanyl, among 18 reviews posted on the product's profile page within the last few week.
In all, Empire lists over 18,000 narcotic offerings, including hundreds for oxycodone
alone.
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