At 6am this morning, I got an email from one of my sleazier contacts. It simply said "looks like Silk Road has collapsed". I fired the Tor browser you need to connect to the site and, indeed, it wasn't there. At the time of writing, it's still not back up. A look around on assorted fo...
David Cameron is enjoying the rare experience of adulation from a united Conservative Party. He’s briefing MPs on the EU budget deal, and wallowing in their praise; no less a figure than Peter Bone has just called him “the heir to Thatcher.” So cheery is the PM that he’s engaging in s...
A digital pirate has captured Bitcoin investors' money A suspected Ponzi scheme involving the online currency Bitcoin has unravelled , and I can reveal that it has drawn the attention of the American Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Bitcoin is a libertarian's dream – and a govern...
