One of the largest child pornography sites on the dark web collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoins through an illicit membership service that required payments of the cryptocurrency, according to federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. The administrators of Welcome to Video, which has hosted more than 1 million downloads of child pornography on the dark web since launching in 2015, directed customers to route payments in bitcoins through at least one cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, prosecutors claimed in an 18-page indictment published Wednesday. The indictment accuses Jong Woo Son, a 23-year-old South Korean national, of child...
South Korean national Jong Woo Son has been accused in a nine-count indictment of operating a darknet child pornography website that offered the sale of videos via the cryptocurrency bitcoin.
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