CONFIRMED: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked by US Marshals
Updated with comment from Lynzey Donahue, a U. S. Marshals spokeswoman. UPDATE (18th June 21:30 BST): Yelp's Luther Lowe contacted CoinDesk to clarify that he contacted the USMS regarding its auction of Silk Road bitcoins as a private investor, and not on behalf of the e-commerce company. A list of individuals interested in the auction of the 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS), the US government agency confirmed. In a statement to CoinDesk, Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals spokeswoman,....
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