(charge: BTC Keychain)
On Wednesday, Ars noted that someone had moved near $1 billion in bitcoin from a wallet probably related to the Silk Road offense bazaar. We know who puzzle celebration isthe US Department of Justice, that at 2013 closed down Silk Road and proceeded to place its creator, Ross Ulbricht, behind bars for life.
“The effective prosecution of Silk Road’s creator in 2015 left offered a brand new question. Where did the cash go?” US Attorney David Anderson explained in a press release, based on that the San Francisco Chronicle. “Now’s forfeiture complaint answers that this spacious question in part. $1 billion of those criminal profits are currently in the United States’ possession”
Silk Road and also Ulbricht were one of the very popular and powerful online crime figures from Internet history. Hosted about the anonymous darkened Internet, the agency brought together buyers and sellers of medication, fake IDs, and virtually every other sort of illegal good or service possible. Silk Road required a cut of every transaction. The profits were enormous.
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