Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
July 1, 2015 (11 years ago)
DEA Agent Carl Force Pleads Guilty to Stealing $700K in Bitcoin From His Own Silk Road Investigation
The lead undercover agent hunting Ulbricht was running a parallel theft operation on the same case he was assigned to crack. Brief thread... 🧵👇
July 1, 2015 (11 years ago)
DEA Agent Carl Force Pleads Guilty to Stealing $700K in Bitcoin From His Own Silk Road Investigation
The lead undercover agent hunting Ulbricht was running a parallel theft operation on the same case he was assigned to crack. Brief thread... 🧵👇
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/7 - Carl Force IV was a 15-year DEA Special Agent given the lead undercover role in the most high-profile darknet case in US history. His authorized persona was "Nob," a fictional cartel contact Ulbricht grew to trust. He appeared to be the ideal agent for the job.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 2/7 - Carl Force IV was a 15-year DEA Special Agent given the lead undercover role in the most high-profile darknet case in US history. His authorized persona was "Nob," a fictional cartel contact Ulbricht grew to trust. He appeared to be the ideal agent for the job.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/7 - Force secretly ran a second persona his own task force knew nothing about. He called it "French Maid" and used it to sell Ulbricht inside intelligence about the government's investigation. Ulbricht paid him roughly $100,000 in Bitcoin for the tips.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 3/7 - Force secretly ran a second persona his own task force knew nothing about. He called it "French Maid" and used it to sell Ulbricht inside intelligence about the government's investigation. Ulbricht paid him roughly $100,000 in Bitcoin for the tips.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 4/7 - It got darker. When Ulbricht ordered a hit on informant Curtis Green, Force and fellow agent Shaun Bridges staged a fake murder, sending DPR staged photographs as proof of death. Ulbricht paid $80,000 in Bitcoin for the supposed killing. They kept it.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 4/7 - It got darker. When Ulbricht ordered a hit on informant Curtis Green, Force and fellow agent Shaun Bridges staged a fake murder, sending DPR staged photographs as proof of death. Ulbricht paid $80,000 in Bitcoin for the supposed killing. They kept it.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/7 - Force had also taken a secret side job as Chief Compliance Officer at CoinMKT, a Bitcoin exchange, without DEA authorization. When a $337,000 account was flagged, he froze it, siphoned $300,000 into his personal account, and falsified the report to show only $37,000 seized.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 5/7 - Force had also taken a secret side job as Chief Compliance Officer at CoinMKT, a Bitcoin exchange, without DEA authorization. When a $337,000 account was flagged, he froze it, siphoned $300,000 into his personal account, and falsified the report to show only $37,000 seized.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/7 - His downfall came through routine fraud monitoring. He tried to launder stolen Bitcoin through Venmo and Bitstamp; both flagged the transactions. He then sent an invalid DEA subpoena from his personal email, without authorization, to bully both services into compliance.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 6/7 - His downfall came through routine fraud monitoring. He tried to launder stolen Bitcoin through Venmo and Bitstamp; both flagged the transactions. He then sent an invalid DEA subpoena from his personal email, without authorization, to bully both services into compliance.
Today in Bitcoin History / @daily_btc_lore:
R to @daily_btc_lore: 7/7 - On July 1, 2015, Force pleaded guilty to extortion, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 78 months. His admitted corruption became a centerpiece of Ross Ulbricht's clemency arguments, undermining the government's claim to a clean prosecution.
R to @daily_btc_lore: 7/7 - On July 1, 2015, Force pleaded guilty to extortion, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 78 months. His admitted corruption became a centerpiece of Ross Ulbricht's clemency arguments, undermining the government's claim to a clean prosecution.
The Cloudflare Blog:
Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights
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Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights
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The Cloudflare Blog:
Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet
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One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required…
The Cloudflare Blog:
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
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Announcing the Monetization Gateway: charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol, with no payments stack of your own to…
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Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers
Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers
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Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers
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Making AI search smarter
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Cloud Native and IT Security News and Trends | The New Stack:
The call is coming from inside your pipeline: the anatomy of a Codecov attack
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Bernardo Braga / @eubernardobraga:
RT by @eubernardobraga: So many people still can't fathom a world where the dollar isn't the money everyone uses, even as their finances and quality of life steadily deteriorate.
They measure their well-being in dollars, which only leads to more pain. It's like taking more of the drug that's making you sick, believing it's the cure.
Bitcoin is money. It exists outside the corruption that fiat inherits. Many have already figured this out and left. Most haven't yet, but they will. There is no...
RT by @eubernardobraga: So many people still can't fathom a world where the dollar isn't the money everyone uses, even as their finances and quality of life steadily deteriorate.
They measure their well-being in dollars, which only leads to more pain. It's like taking more of the drug that's making you sick, believing it's the cure.
Bitcoin is money. It exists outside the corruption that fiat inherits. Many have already figured this out and left. Most haven't yet, but they will. There is no...
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