AlphaBay

Monero-enabled (CRYPTO: XMR) AlphaBay is purportedly the world's top dark web marketplace. But it follows a quirky rule: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, and all "Kyrgyzstan-related activity" are excluded. Why The Exclusion: An AlphaBay staff, who chose to remain...

A Russian criminal mastermind used his bitcoin currency exchange to launder $4 billion from a vast network of interlocking syndicates engaged in public corruption, identity theft, ransomware extortion, dark web drug deals and a raft of other global cybercrimes, federal prosecutors allege. A grand...