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 is becoming a less popular virtual coin among cybercriminals and other users that inhabit the dark web, with other lesser-known alternative cryptocurrencies starting to usurp it, according ...

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.

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 ...

The second reason bitcoin is falling out of favor on the dark web has to do with the sudden increase in the cost of transacting in bitcoin. Here, again, it helps to get into the technical details ...

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.

Dash, another cryptocurrency whose protocol is well-suited for daily transactions, is accepted at 20% of all stores on the dark web. Bitcoin is accepted at all e-commerce storefronts on the dark web.

Bitcoin is still very much the dark web’s favorite cryptocurrency, but those looking to cover their tracks are slowly learning to use privacy-focused alternatives. “While we have previously ...

Dealer used dark web, bitcoin and U.S. Postal Service to run national drug business from Denver, feds say Paul Carlos Moseley, 31, allegedly drove his BMW around town, mailing heroin from Post Offices ...