Bitcoin Promoter Will Plead Guilty In Silk Road Case

(Reuters) -- Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem has reached a plea deal to resolve U.S. charges that he engaged in a scheme to sell more than $1 million of the digital currency to users of illicit online marketplace Silk Road, his lawyer said Friday. Shrem, the former vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, will plead guilty next Thursday in New York federal court to unlicensed money transmission, Marc Agnifilo, his lawyer told Reuters in an email.