Charlie Shrem. The man, the myth, the convict. Before there was Ross Ulbricht, Charlie Shrem was the most famous convicted felon in Bitcoin’s short history. The outcries for him and his possible innocence have died down, but his life’s story lives on, behind the bars of a federal prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
His crime? He was found guilty of conspiring to launder $1 million worth of bitcoins to help users of the Silk Road marketplace […]
