The total value of bitcoin transacted on the dark web is up 65% over the year, and 340% over three years, according to data from Bitfury’s Crystal analytic's platform.

Bitcoin has been the de facto currency of the Dark Web – the 'hidden' Internet accessible only by Tor – since the pioneering marketplace Silk Road, the 'eBay of drugs', arrived in 2011.

Bitcoin wallets associated with Nucleus Marketplace, an earlier known darknet marketplace for trading drugs, have been used for transactions after almost nine years of redundancy. According to ...

Directories on the Dark Web link to 500 sites that sell everything from fake passports and counterfeit currency to weapons, hard drugs and stolen credit-card numbers.

US Attorney Jessie K. Liu and other law enforcement officials announced the closure of Welcome to Video, a dark web child-porn site that had operated from June 2015 until March 2018.

GREENBERG: Around 2011, the Silk Road appeared, which was this new phenomenon - a vast market for practically every drug imaginable, like narcotics, available on the dark web. And bitcoin had ...

A Brooklyn man was charged Wednesday with selling heroin and cocaine on the dark web in exchange for bitcoin and running a door-to-door drug delivery service in the Big Apple, federal authorities ...

A Georgia man who stole 50,000 Bitcoin, now worth potentially billions of dollars, from the dark web market Silk Road in September 2012 has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, the Justice Department ...

Murphy sent $10,510 in Bitcoin to pay for the murder, ... Murphy did not initially get on the dark web with intentions of hiring a hitman, ...

At the very bottom of the deep web is a small corner of the internet called the dark web. As threatening as it may seem, it only makes up a tiny portion of the deep web — less than 0.01%.