In 2012, someone stole 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road, an illegal dark web marketplace. Over time, the value of the stolen bitcoin skyrocketed to more than $3 billion dollars and for years it ...

A report from CNBC has revealed additional details surrounding Jimmy Zhong, who last year was arrested in connection with the theft of more than 50,000 bitcoins [BTC] from the Silk Road marketplace.

A new CNBC documentary details the story of James "Jimmy" Zhong and the 2019 Athens break-in that exposed a $3 billion cryptocurrency fraud. "Crypto 911: Exposing a Bitcoin Billionaire" shows ...

As CNBC reports, Bitcoin thief Jimmy Zhong not only helped write the original code of the cryptocurrency and early blockchain tech, but he also pilfered a bunch of it off the Silk Road in 2012 ...

Roughly nine years later, authorities searched James "Jimmy" Zhong's Gainesville lake house and found most of it in an underground floor safe and a computer stored in a popcorn tin. Zhong ...

Court filings show James "Jimmy" Zhong, 32, in 2012 exploited a flaw in the Silk Road cryptocurrency wallet triggered by rapid, millisecond withdrawals. He stole about $577,000 worth of cryptocurrency ...

What follows is an open letter from Jimmy Zhong, co-founder and CEO of IOST, to his team members and shared with Bitcoin Magazine with permission. Recently, I’ve been thinking about an ultimate way of ...

On the phone was 28-year-old Jimmy Zhong, a local party boy and Georgia alum who frequented Athens' drinking establishments. He wasn't like the other town rowdies – Zhong was also a computer ...