Feds Discover Bitcoin Theiving Sheep Marketplace Culprits
One of the oldest, largest thefts in Bitcoin history, the robbery of early Darknet Market (DNM) Sheep Marketplace, may have finally reached its conclusion. Folks newer to Bitcoin may not remember the scandal, which led to the closure of the popular bazaar of mostly illegal drugs, which was later found to be run out of the Czech Republic, as thCCN reported in March of last year. At that time, the best theory was that the owner himself with the help of his significant other had robbed the site’s hot wallet himself. However, it now appears that Thomas Jiřikovský may have been telling the....
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The closure of black market site Sheep Marketplace took a mysterious turn over the weekend, as users allegedly tracked nearly 100,000 stolen bitcoins, worth over $100m, through the block chain. Sheep Marketplace was taken down over the weekend, citing a theft of $5.3m in bitcoin and toppling rival site Black Market Reloaded in the process. Black Market Reloaded announced its closure amid worries that Sheep Marketplace's migrating users could overload the site. Since then, claims have emerged suggesting far more coins were stolen, with many users saying the owners themselves have....
The game, which features sheep and dynamite as two unusual components, requires players to use them to combat with each in a sincere and patient manner. As elaborated by Dragons.tl’s dedicated guide, both the players use explosives to scare off a sheep standing between them in a play field. Therefore, the one who manages to use his entire dynamite, or move the sheep towards his competitor’s end line, wins the game. An excerpt from the wiki page: “You start with 50 pieces of dynamite (you can see the amount you have left under your name), and can use them to scare the sheep toward your....
In an update to the two-year-old story of the Sheep Marketplace, Czech authorities have identified what they believe to be the owner, after discovering him trying to launder the money. Sheep Marketplace was a deep web market similar to Silk Road which shut down in December 2013 after claiming to be the victim of a hack, but even at the time this claim was suspicious, because withdrawals had stopped as long as a week prior to the announcement. Biggest Exit Scam in Dark Web History. At the time, the missing Bitcoins were worth around $40 million, almost four times the size of the recent....
Czech police have seized a luxury property purchased with bitcoin by a couple previously linked to the hack of drug bazaar Sheep Marketplace. The house, reportedly worth around $345,000, was bought in a series of transactions by Tomáš Jiřikovský and his partner Eva Bartošová. The property was originally registered under Jiřikovský's grandfather, Jan Goliath. Sheep Marketplace shut down in December 2013, following claims hackers had absconded with approximately $5.3m in bitcoin. Users who tracked the stolen funds on the blockchain voiced suspicions that the theft was an inside job. A site....
Undoubtedly many readers have seen this wallet before, we've linked to it a lot here in articles onCCN. Those are the "Silk Road Bitcoins" seized by a joint federal task force in the October take-down of the infamous online drug marketplace: Silk road. During the take-down that included crazy antics by undercover agents at a public library in a brazen heist to steal Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht's laptop mid-session, the Feds were able to gain control of 29,655 Bitcoins from Silk Roads' servers. These Bitcoins belonged, in large part, to individual users of Silk Road from around the....