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The FBI Has Captured $28 Million (€20 Million) in Bitcoins from Drug Site Silk Road

26
Oct
2013

The feds grabbed the alleged owner of the infamous Silk Road drug online marketplace Ross Ulbricht a few weeks ago. They also boasted about the tens of millions of dollars that he allegedly made from commissions on the site.But the FBI only managed to grab bitcoins belonging to Silk Road users, a few million dollar’s worth, but not Ulbricht’s mythical stash.That has changed, apparently. The FBI is now in control of 144,000 bitcoins, worth around $28 million (20 mi…

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