US Marshals: One Auction Bidder Claimed All 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins

US Marshals: One Auction Bidder Claimed All 30,000 Silk Road Bitcoins

Venture capitalist Tim Draper has been revealed as the winner of last Friday's USMS bitcoin auction. The US Marshals Service (USMS) has announced that a single, undisclosed bidder claimed all of the roughly 30,000 bitcoins seized from online black market Silk Road and sold in its recent auction. The winning bidder outbid all other parties for the 10 auction blocks, according to the USMS. Further, the bitcoins have already been transferred to the winner, according to Blockchain. The USMS previously said that it would begin notifying bidders as to whether they had secured any of the blocks....


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