The Feds Seized $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
A hacker identified only as Individual X ha...View MoreThe Feds Seized $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins
A hacker identified only as Individual X have been sitting
on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years prior to the IRS came knocking.More than seven years have passed since Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction element of a San Francisco library and faced with running the sprawling, dark web
drug bazaar called the Silk Road. But once the Feds laid on the job Ulbricht's laptop that day,
they found keys to unlock only a fraction of the bitcoins that he had amassed on the Silk Road's years
of bustling black darkode market drug
trade. Today the Justice Department finally revealed where a
billion-dollar tranche of the Silk Road's treasure ended up: stolen by a strange
hacker, and now seized by the US Treasury.
@Joe Hoddle
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