In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, crypto pioneer and BitInstant co-founder, Charlie Shrem, offered his perspective on the early days of crypto. Despite missing some of the comradery from ...

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 ...

The Bitcoin community faces a major publicity crisis this week with the arrest of BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem on charges of money laundering for users of the digital black market known as Silk Road.

The Bitcoin markets have been sleepy over the past week or two, and Bitcoin traders are starting to whine. What Wake me up when the markets move. But the Bitcoin markets may soon pick up again as a ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Scruffy-faced New York City Bitcoin playboy Charlie Shrem is in some seriously hot water and deep, too. Perhaps as deep as the known ...

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 ...

The widening circle of arrests in the investigation of the Silk Road drug market sites just extended into the heart of the Bitcoin community. The Department of Justice announced Monday that it's ...

Recently, BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem announced that his company would be releasing a new product: a Bitcoin prepaid debit card. The product is scheduled to come out in six to eight weeks, and would ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Silk Road is still claiming victims, today taking down BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and Robert M. Faiella, a BTC broker, known as BTCKing or BTC-KinG. Police arrested Shrem, 24, yesterday at JFK ...