Tag: Feds
It looks like the FBI has some explaining to do. When experts examined the evidence presented against the alleged founder of dark net drug market Silk Road, something didn’t add up. Specifically, the method the FBI claim to have used to find Silk Road’s servers was apparently fabricated. The feds claim that they found the Silk Road server location because Silk […]
Butterfly Labs, a bitcoin miner company, has been closed down by the feds. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges that Butterfly Labs charged people tens of thousands of dollars to pre-order “miners” — specialized computers that sustain the Bitcoin network and generate Bitcoins for the owner. While Butterfly Labs heavily marketed the miners, they repeatedly […]
Big news in Colorado and Washington: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of the two states that the federal Department of Justice would not interfere with their recent legalization of recreational cannabis. Though the citizens of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize last year, that hasn’t stopped federal authorities from raiding dispensaries in […]
