USMS: A Single Bidder Claimed All Bitcoins in Last Week's Auction
Some new information is surfacing with regard to the highly-publicized bitcoin auction held by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) last week. That auction ran for twelve hours from 6am - 6pm. We're learning via a CoinDesk report that the USMS has announced that a single bidder has claimed all 29,656.51306529 bitcoins, which were made available in nine blocks of 3,000 coins, and one block of 2,656.51306529 bitcoins. The Service said the following in a Tuesday statement: The US Marshals Bitcoin auction resulted in one winning bidder. The transfer of the bitcoins to the winner was....
Related News
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....
A winning bidder claimed 2,700 BTC (worth $1.58m) at an auction held by the US Marshals Service (USMS) today. USMS representatives confirmed to CoinDesk that four bids were received in the auction, which took place between 13:00 and 19:00 UTC. The event, by far the smallest held to date by the USMS, saw bitcoins confiscated in cases involving convicted Silk Road ringleader Ross Ulbricht and former federal agent Carl Force IV made available for sale. In total, only five registered bidders sought to claim the 2,700 BTC block, the agency said. The turnout was lower than observed in the most....
Bitcoin seized from Silk Road is being auctioned off by the US Government. Update (12:00 PM CST): USMS has confirmed with CoinDesk and CoinFire that they will release an announcement this afternoon. No further details were furnished. Update (4:00 PM CST): The USMS has reported that 1 anonymous bidder outbid all other 44 bidders for all of the auctioned Bitcoin. The winning bid is still undisclosed. At this point, it seems that the single winner probably has incentive to not reveal his winning bid. However, if all the losers come forward we could have a better idea of the winning bid. What....
The fourth and final US Marshals (USMS) auction of bitcoins confiscated during the investigation into online black market Silk Road drew only 11 bidders today, the lowest total since the second auction held in December 2014. The government agency indicated that 11 registered bidders submitted a total of 30 bids on 22 blocks of bitcoins during today's auction. Twenty-one of the blocks were for 2,000 BTC (valued at $790,000 at press time), while the final block included 2,341 BTC (roughly $926,200). Participation was once again down sharply from the first auction of nearly 30,000 BTC held in....
Last week's US government auction of confiscated Silk Road bitcoins has left a lingering mystery: who won the two biggest blocks of 27,000 and 20,000 coins? The winners of the two previous US Marshals Service (USMS) bitcoin auctions always wound up announcing themselves within days of their successful bids. The first auction winner was, famously, venture capitalist Tim Draper, who claimed all the 30,000 bitcoins for sale. The second auction saw the lion's share go to a syndicate organised by Bitcoin Investment Trust, although Draper again picked up some coins. The third and most recent....