[2026-02-04] The latest IT, economic, blockchain and coin news

A Taiwanese national who built a crypto-fueled dark web narcotics empire worth over $105 million while moonlighting as a cybercrime trainer for Caribbean police has been sentenced to three decades in federal prison. Rui-Siang Lin received the 30-year sentence for operating Incognito Market under the pseudonym "Pharoah," overseeing a digital drug bazaar that sold more than one ton of narcotics, including fentanyl-laced pills, to over 400,000 buyers worldwide between October 2020 and March 2024, a...