Blockchain data shows that bitcoin related to the Silk Road seizure are moving, and some may have been sent to Coinbase. Bitcoin stored in a US Department of Justice wallet that were seized from darkn...
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U.S. Government Moves $1B of Seized Silk Road BTC, Prompting Liquidation Fears
Key Takeaways A wallet associated with seized Silk Road funds moved $1.08 billion in BTC. The address moved 39,174 BTC to two new wallets, and 9,825 BTC to a wallet reportedly belonging to Coinbase. T...
Bitcoin Could See More Price Decline As Silk Road BTC Moves To Coinbase
Bitcoin once again slid below the $22,000 price level following a particularly slow start to the week. This falls in line with the previously bearish trend that was triggered after the digital asset w...
BTC hovers around $22k, US Silk Road BTC address awakens
As of March 8, the price of bitcoin (BTC) is trading around $22,000, with a trading volume of $30.34 billion over the past 24 hours. BTC has experienced a decline of 1.41% in the last 24 hours and 4.5...
$1 billion worth of Silk Road Bitcoins on the move; BTC dump imminent?
The US government has moved $1 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) it seized from the anonymous darknet marketplace Silk Road in 2021 and 2022. A total of 49,000 BTC moved from government wallet addresses,...
Silk Road Bitcoin for sale? US government-linked addresses transfer $1B in BTC
50,000 Bitcoin (BTC) worth $1 billion United States dollars were moved from multiple wallets related to U.S. Government law enforcement seizures and were transferred to new addresses, and a few were m...
US Govt Moves 9,861 Bitcoin Seized from Silk Road to Coinbase
Over the last week, the world’s largest cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) has been under selling pressure. As of press time, Bitcoin is trading 1.59% down at a price of $22,118 and a market cap of $23 bill...
Silk Road Bitcoin Stash on the Move, Is Uncle Sam About to Sell?
Wallets connected to the United States government law enforcement seizures, including those from the Silk Road marketplace, have started moving Bitcoin. Concerns are mounting over whether the stash is...
More Than $3 Billion in Silk Road Bitcoin Funds Appear
It’s been so many years, and yet the shadows of the dark web platform Silk Road are still with us. Silk Road operated under the illicit hand of Ross Ulbricht and was known for being a market where ind...
SILK Is Now Available for Trading on LBank Exchange
INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, 9th December, 2022, Chainwire LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed SILK on December 9, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the SILK/USDT trading...
DoJ Seizes 50,676 Bitcoin From Silk Road Hacker James Zhong
After a decade of intense investigation, Silk Road hacker James Zhong has pleaded guilty to defrauding the then-famous darknet marketplace Silk Road. As a result, the federal government of the United ...
U.S. Government Seizes $3.4 Billion Worth of Bitcoin from Silk Road Scammer
Alex Dovbnya The U.S. government has announced its second-largest cryptocurrency seizure to date The U.S. Department of Justice has seized 50,676 Bitcoin ($3.36 billion) from an individual known as Ja...
US Announces ‘Historic $3.36 Billion Cryptocurrency Seizure’ as Silk Road Bitcoin Thief Pleads Guilty – Regulation Bitcoin News
The man who stole over 50,000 bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace has pleaded guilty. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, “the seizure was then the largest cryptocurrency seizure” in the ...
US Attorney Announces Guilty Plea of Silk Road Criminal
Silk Road fraudster James Zhong pleaded guilty to stealing 50,000 BTC from the Silk Road darknet marketplace in 2012. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Zhong created 140 transactions that caus...
Feds Seize Silk Road Hacker’s 50,676 BTC Worth Over $3,600,000,000 Ten Years After Massive Heist
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has announced the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history, and the second-largest financial seizure ever. According to an announcemen...
US Confiscate 50,000 Bitcoin in Connection with Silk Road
– Advertisement – U.S. Attorney Damian Williams and Special Agent Tyler Hatcher have announced the seizure of $3.36B worth of Bitcoin (BTC) in connection with Silk Road. Damian Williams,...
Over 50K BTC from Silk Road worth officially seized by DOJ after 10 year investigation
The U.S. Attorney has announced that the Department of Justice has officially seized Bitcoin valued at $3.36 billion at the time of appropriation in connection with the 2012 Silk Road fraud. The seize...
Silk Road hacker was Bitcoin OG who once tried to bet with ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Roger Ver
The man who the Department of Justice said pleaded guilty to swiping more than 50,000 bitcoins is linked to a personality from the early days of crypto through the wallet addresses highlighted by auth...
Duo behind Silk Road takedown back fighting crypto crimes with Naxo
The new sheriff in town features some familiar faces. Naxo, a newly-launched cybersecurity firm, was co-founded by former FBI special agent Chris Tarbell and computer scientist Matt Edman. They both p...
The Real Story Behind the Silk Road Founder
October marked the start of the 10th year in prison for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. On this unhappiest of anniversaries we spoke with Ross’ mother Lyn Ulbricht, to shed light on the real person b...
9 Years After Ross Ulbricht’s Arrest & Silk Road’s Closing, How’s Bitcoin Doing?
The story of Silk Road and its creator Ross Ulbricht are inextricably linked to bitcoin’s history. In February 2011, the dark web black market was one of the first web stores to go bitcoin-only, provi...
Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Road sentencing, which occurred a decade ago, illustrates the government’s fear of bitcoin
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The owner and inventor of the Silk Road, one of the first online markets to use only bitcoin, Ross Ulbricht, was found guilty aft...
Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht Apologizes to the Public on the Eve of His 10th Year in Prison
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht who is currently serving a double sentence in prison for his role in running a distribution network that allows buying and selling hard drugs through the use of Bitcoin...
Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Begins His 10th Year in Prison
Vladislav Sopov On ninth anniversary of his imprisonment, living legend of early Bitcoin (BTC) movement shares message to his supporters Contents Ross Ulbricht: “I feel immense regret” Her...
How Investigator Got Inside the Mind of Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht
Gary Alford, the tax investigator who unmasked Silk Road founder Dread Pirate Roberts, has revealed how he got inside the mind of the dark web’s most notorious founder, and how that ultimately led to ...
Avalanche’s New Wallet Will Feel ‘Smooth as Silk’: Ava Labs President John Wu
Avalanche has recently emerged as one of the top smart contract blockchains thanks to a vibrant developer community and a sophisticated architecture that offers both speed and security. Now the team b...
Silk Road founder gives up $ 3 billion in Bitcoin
In recent days, it has been discovered that part of the Bitcoin stolen from Silk Road were found a year ago. The Bitcoin from Silk Road Ross Ulbricht, currently in prison, cannot redeem the $ 3 billio...
$3,000,000,000 Worth of Bitcoin (BTC) Forfeited to US Government By Former Silk Road Founder
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is forfeiting billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and other crypto assets to the US government. According to a new court filing, Ulbricht will relinquish any cla...