This is the archived Spring 2015 version of the course. For the most recent version, see http://bitcoin-class.org.

Class 24: Silk Road

Posted: Mon 13 April 2015

Schedule

Each team will have an opportunity to present their project the last three classes (April 20, 22 and 27). The schedule is here.

Note: due to a bug in slideshare's updated player, ink markings no longer appear in the viewer.
If you download the slides, they are present though. Hopefully, the player will be fixed someday.

Legality of Bitcoin

Application of FinCEN’s Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies (March 2013)

IRS Virtual Currency Guidance : Virtual Currency Is Treated as Property for U.S. Federal Tax Purposes; General Rules for Property Transactions Apply, 24 March 2014. Notice 2014-21

Silk Road

Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson. Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router, USENIX Security Symposium 2004.

Tor Project Site

How many exit nodes?

Nicolas Christin, Traveling the Silk Road: A measurement analysis of a large anonymous online marketplace. November 2012.

Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker?, New York Times, 18 Jan 2014.

Documents from Ross Ulbright case

Declaration of Christopher Tarbell

Motion from 6 March

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