Meet The 'Bitcoin Millionaire' Arrested For Allegedly Helping Silk Road Launder $1 Million

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. Shrem, though only 24, is considered an important figure in the Bitcoin community. In less than three years, he went from being a college senior investing in a silly bubble, to one of the publicly known "Bitcoin millionaires" — a face for a concept just hitting the mainstream public's interest. W...