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Ross Ulbricht, who created Silk Road, a dark web market that used Bitcoin to facilitate millions of dollars in drug sales, takes the stage to speak at Bitcoin 2025, a cryptocurrency convention at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, May 29, 2025. (Gabriela Bhaskar/ The New York Times)

The spectacular comeback tour of a crypto overlord

September 08, 2025 9:36 am

As the creator of Silk Road, a dark web market that used bitcoin to facilitate millions of dollars in sales of heroin, cocaine and other drugs, he had been sentenced to life in prison in 2015 without the possibility of parole.

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Bengaluru: No FBI team in India to probe bitcoin scam, claims CBI

April 10, 2022 2:42 pm

The CBI statement comes after several Congress leaders claimed that the BJP government has covered up the ‘biggest’ bitcoin scam.

Congress raises ‘high-profile bitcoin scam’ again, says FBI sleuths are in India

April 10, 2022 6:12 am

Leaders of the Opposition party unleashed social media posts on Friday and Saturday renewing charges of corruption in the way Karnataka’s BJP government has handled cybercrime cases involving a hacker.

What legal recourse is available to victims of cryptocurrency scams in India: A lawyer’s take

January 05, 2022 4:57 pm

In India, neither is cryptocurrency illegal nor is it regulated by any specific legislation yet.

Hacking gang at heart of Karnataka Bitcoin scandal tried to steal Rs 46 crore from state e-governance unit

November 15, 2021 10:06 am

Karnataka Bitcoin scam: A cloud of suspicion of corruption around cases involving the hacker Srikrishna has now become a source of concern for the BJP government in Karnataka.

We never had them, hacker deceived us: Bengaluru police on Bitcoin ‘disappearance’

November 15, 2021 7:26 am

The police’s central crime branch unit issued the statement on Saturday night in the wake of suspicions of corruption in handling the Bitcoins supposedly found with the hacker in January.

DSK GROUP ‘fraud’: ‘Pune Police did not consult me before filing closure report’

Bitcoin extortion case: Amreli SP detained by Gujarat CID

April 23, 2018 2:36 pm

Jagdish Patel was taken into custody from his residence in Amreli district last night and brought to Gandhinagar by CID-Crime, which is probing the case.

Bitcoin: Mined out of a virtual crypt and now in the throes of a raging controversy

March 11, 2014 1:39 am

Post the recent closure of its largest exchange and regulatory clampdown across countries, there are rising question-marks over its future.

Bitcoin: Controversy marks Newsweek's comeback

March 08, 2014 4:00 pm

A cover story claiming it had uncovered "the face behind bitcoin,'' the world's most popular digital currency. It got plenty of attention, all right.

The final electoral roll for Bihar is scheduled to be published on September 30. (File)

Supreme Court asks EC to consider Aadhaar as valid ID for Bihar voter rolls

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The Supreme Court has ordered the Election Commission to accept Aadhaar cards as a valid document for voter identification during the electoral roll revision in Bihar. The court has stressed on the importance of only allowing genuine citizens to vote and excluding those with forged documents. The EC has received numerous claims and objections for inclusion and exclusion in the final roll.

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