Charlie Shrem, once a rising star in the Bitcoin world, became the first prominent figure to face imprisonment due to his involvement in cryptocurrency. As the founder of BitInstant, one of the ...

This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Charlie Shrem is the former founder of BitInstant, ...

Brooklyn’s Bitcoin pioneer sits under house arrest in Brooklyn, while more cautious entrepreneurs move to take up the space his formerly high flying firm, BitInstant, once occupied. Scrutiny of the ...

Charlie Shrem graduated from Brooklyn College and got into BitCoins early, in 2010. He’s the cofounder of BitInstant and now one of a few millionaires in the new digital currency, according to a new ...

Charlie Shrem, a prominent evangelist for Bitcoin who is charged by the U.S. with conspiring to launder more than $1 million in the virtual currency tied to the illicit online bazaar Silk Road, is in ...

Bitcoin mogul Charlie Shrem, one of the pioneers and evangelists of the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, is backing his first venture in film, and plans to do more. Shrem’s first project as an ...

BitInstant.com looked like a potential game-changer, an innovation that could nudge bitcoin into mainstream use. When the service opened up shop in summer 2011, it offered to exchange cash for ...

(CN) – Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem and a Florida man sold more than $1 million in bitcoins to people trying to buy drugs on the Silk Road website, federal prosecutors say. According to a ...

The Winklevoss twins reached a settlement with Charlie Shrem on April 16, 2019, declaring that their case against him has been dismissed with prejudice and will not be reopened. The twins, who founded ...

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 ...