Two men have pleaded guilty for conspiring to launder money using Bitcoin after selling marijuana on the dark web. Connor Brooke and Aidan Curry, 25 and 23 respectively, gave their plea in federal court yesterday. The pair agreed to forfeit “tens of thousands of dollars worth of cash, cryptocurrency, and [computer hardware]” that was used to commit the crime, the Times of San Diego reports. Brooke and Curry ran a series of dark web enterprises, one of which sold marijuana while the other allowed people to buy cryptocurrency for cash at a premium. In a text message, Curry described the perpetrators’ cryptocurrency transfer…
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