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The legal decision marks the end of the road for a years-long legal battle over 69,370 Bitcoins, seized in 2020 from an unidentified hacker referred to in court documents as “In ...
Silk Road showed people that bitcoin could be effectively used as a medium of exchange on an open marketplace.
A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market's crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker's floorboards.
Ross Ulbricht’s recent receipt of 300 Bitcoin is from “questionable sources,” but it’s unlikely to be a case where he donated it to himself, says blockchain researcher ZachXBT. Ulbricht ...
The $4.4 billion in crypto is set to be the largest pile of criminal proceeds ever sold off by the US. The former IRS agent who seized the record-breaking sum, meanwhile, languishes in a Nigerian ...
The government has recovered over 50,000 Bitcoin that were stolen from The Silk Road in 2012. The coins were worth over $3 billion when they were seized by investigators.
President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Silk Road marketplace founder Ross Ulbricht, a promise he made to the cryptocurrency industry during his campaign.
$3.4B of Bitcoin in a popcorn tin: The Silk Road hacker’s story The Silk Road hacker was sentenced to just a year in prison for stealing BTC that's now worth $3.4 billion, while site founder ...
Nearly $2 billion worth of forfeited bitcoin (BTC) linked to the Silk Road website were moved to crypto exchange Coinbase Prime on Monday.
The Justice Department recovered bitcoin once worth $3.4 billion, now valued around $1 billion, that a Georgia real estate developer stole a decade ago from the dark web marketplace Silk Road, the ...
The United States is seeking the forfeiture of more than $1 billion in Bitcoin stolen from the Silk Road online marketplace, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday.
Silk Road showed people that bitcoin could be effectively used as a medium of exchange on an open marketplace. This is an opinion editorial by Jacob Kozhipatt, a YouTuber and writer. For the ...