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Digital cash system and associated currency
Venus Market is repeatedly listed among contemporary darknet marketplaces and appears in curated links and academic/OSINT tracking, but detailed independent reporting on its structure is sparse in the...
Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 on charges tied to operating the dark‑web marketplace Silk Road — including narcotics distribution, money laundering and related offenses — and served a life senten...
Polkadot’s community approved a supply cap and an issuance cut that will take effect March 14, 2026, reducing annual issuance from about 120M to ~55M DOT (a ~52.6% cut) and setting a hard cap of 2.1 b...
Nick Fuentes was subpoenaed by the House Select Committee investigating January 6 and was the subject of an FBI probe that lasted about five months and was closed without charges; DOJ public records a...
Jeffrey Epstein’s philanthropic network routed millions to elite research programs and individual scientists through vehicles such as the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation and direct gifts to universities...
STYX Market is a relatively new but fast-growing dark‑web marketplace that specializes in financial fraud, offering escrow, vetted “trusted sellers,” cash‑out and money‑laundering services and accepti...
Carding forums regularly rely on a mix of widely traded coins, privacy-focused tokens and off-ramp services to launder proceeds: mainstream currencies such as Bitcoin and stablecoins like Tether are u...
Darknet buyers and vendors rely on a layered OPSEC ethos built around Tor access, encrypted communications (PGP), cryptocurrency payments, and strict identity compartmentalization; guides and market r...
Available sources show GrapheneOS is an open‑source, nonprofit mobile OS project with a visible community lead, MetropleX, who appears in interviews and on project forums and Mastodon . There is no ev...
StarkNet’s ecosystem exploded to ~193 user-facing projects by Nov 2024, a 168% year‑over‑year rise driven by grants, infrastructure work and a gaming boom; the network is pressing decentralization (17...
Vietnam has tied compliance with new biometric digital-ID rules to , with multiple reports stating that authorities or banks deactivated or froze roughly for failing to provide facial or fingerprint b...
There are legitimate ways to send, receive and cash out funds using Cash App’s official service and other reputable money‑transfer apps, but there is no reliable reporting that validates independent “...
“Institutional flow is Polkadot approved” typically means asset managers are preparing DOT-backed ETFs or index products that would let institutions buy DOT via regulated funds rather than spot market...
If you invested $5 in Bitcoin today, simple model-based projections in mainstream crypto outlets produce wildly different outcomes: short-term year-ahead modest gains of single- to low-double digits a...
Tor offers strong network-layer anonymity but user mistakes and certain practical attacks routinely undo that protection; commentators and technical surveys say “human error is the leading cause of de...
Dark web carding sites rely heavily on cryptocurrency to transact and monetize stolen payment data, with for stronger anonymity; marketplaces and services convert between these currencies to frustrate...
Using for payments can save consumers money on per-transaction in many everyday cases because its average on‑chain fees are typically a few cents or less compared with and , but savings are neither gu...
Privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash materially reduce the on‑chain visibility that investigators rely on for tracing dark‑web payments, while off‑ramp services—mixers, chain‑hopping tools, and comp...
Operational mistakes—user actions and misconfigurations—are the single most common route to deanonymizing Tor users; investigators and researchers repeatedly find client-side errors, poorly configured...
Polkadot’s community approved a major tokenomics change (Referendum 1710) that will cut annual DOT issuance from ~120M to ~55M and cap supply at 2.1B — the halving is scheduled for March 2026 and is p...