Government Seizes 69,730 Bitcoin ($1 Billion) Tied To Silk Road
On November 5, 2020, federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint describing the seizure of 69,370 bitcoin (worth about $1.06 billion at the time of this writing) from an individual who was able to steal the funds from darknet marketplace Silk Road. According to the complaint, the funds were stolen from Silk Road across 54 previously undetected bitcoin transactions in 2012 and 2013. As Ars Technica reported, earlier this year, federal authorities commissioned the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis to investigate these transactions. It found that the stolen BTC was moved into two wallets....
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The U.S. government has seized over $1 billion in bitcoin from previously undetected transactions associated with the Silk Road marketplace and is now seeking the forfeiture of the cryptocurrency. US Confiscates $1 Billion in Bitcoin From Silk Road The U.S. government has filed a lawsuit seeking the forfeiture of bitcoin currently worth over $1 billion that it seized on Tuesday, according to the court document. The Department of Justice said on Thursday that this bitcoin seizure is the largest the U.S. has ever made. The “Defendant Property” seized includes bitcoin and its....
According to a press release, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) seized over $3.3 billion or 50,000 Bitcoin (BTC) tied to the infamous digital Silk Road. This capture is one of the largest in history for the DoJ, the Southern District of New York, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal division. Related Reading: Wuhan […]
James Zhong stole over $3 billion BTC from Silk Road by committing wire fraud and possibly faces over 20 years in prison in the latest U.S. seizure.
Back in October many of the trolls and ents of Reddit muttered and mumbled to themselves about joining together in a class action lawsuit to claim pieces of the 29000 Bitcoins seized by the FBI on October 2nd, 2013. The 29,000 Bitcoins taken from Silk Road servers on that day belonged to the international motley crew of buyers and sellers on Silk Road. Many of those Bitcoins were tied up in escrow in ongoing deals, or simply sitting in the accounts of buyers and sellers waiting for withdrawal or use. Nothing came of all the hubbub raised by Silk Road users about their Bitcoins being swept....
The seizure on Tuesday, tied to the Silk Road marketplace, is reported to be the largest the U.S. has ever effected