Charlie Shrem, CEO of bitcoin exchange service BitInstant, has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a scheme to "sell and launder over $1m in bitcoins" through the now defunct online black ...

Charles Shrem, who ran a New York-based Bitcoin exchange, was arrested Monday and charged with engaging in a money laundering scheme with a user of Silk Road, the notorious deep web black market. In ...

(CN) – Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem and a Florida man sold more than $1 million in bitcoins to people trying to buy drugs on the Silk Road website, federal prosecutors say. According to a ...

BitInstant which was in operation from 2011 to 2013, before shutting down "temporarily" in July, was a site that allowed users to buy and sell Bitcoin. The indictment cites emails exchanged between ...

Brooklyn-based BitInstant, a startup that provides temporary credit in order to make Bitcoin transactions faster, has raised an undisclosed sum Brooklyn-based BitInstant, a startup that provides ...

Mr. Shrem's Twitter photo. In a scene out of a Scorsese film yet to come, self-described "Bitcoin evangelist" Charlie Shrem was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on charges that he ...