Who has/had the Most Bitcoins, Was It Silk Road? Maybe Not
How many bitcoins have been mined so far? How many bitcoins did the FBI seize during the Silk Road investigation? Where did all those bitcoins go? Who has the most number of bitcoins in the world? These are some of the questions that are bound to be asked at one time or another, unless you have already asked that to yourself. Starting with, How many bitcoins have been mined so far? To give you the statistics, out of the total 21 million bitcoins to be mined, over 14.75 million bitcoins are already mined. The total number of bitcoins mined so far can be found at this link. Time for the next....
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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....
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....
50,000 Bitcoins are going to be auctioned in the coming weeks. Despite the fact that Ross Ulbricht is not scheduled to stand trial until after the holiday season, the US Marshal's Service is going ahead with a second round of their Silk Road Bitcoin Auction. These Bitcoins that are currently being sold through the beginning of December likely belong to Ross Ulbricht himself, not Silk Road or Silk Road users. In January, Ross Ulbricht and his lawyers signed a court order that allowed the USMS to sell Bitcoins belonging to Silk Road and all property traceable from said crime, "including but....
Check out this article from The Guardian. Majority of Silk Road's Bitcoins may remain unseized. Four-fifths of the income received by the Silk Road boss, Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), has not been seized by FBI, research shows. The supposed one-fifth of Silk Road's bitcoins that have been seized are held at this wallet by the FBI: 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX. It is great fun to read through all the transaction notes, angry rantings, loan requests, etc that people are sending to the publicly viewable address. These bitcoins were seized from the Silk Road but they were not seized from....
A few days ago here at CCN we reported that Bitcoin's black mark Silk Road 2.0 had been hacked. Defcon, in a long post to Silk Road 2.0 forums on Tor, explained that three attackers had used the transaction malleability bug to steal over 4,763 BTC directly from Silk Road's hot wallet. Original estimates still haven't been confirmed but Defcon himself reports that 47% of all users had lost all of their funds. As always, I must warn readers that the majority of things on the Deepweb are not in any way shape or form trustworthy. It is my, and the good Government's advice, to stay away from....