Silk Road
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DOJ wallet makes small Coinbase transfer, potentially hinting at an upcoming sale of BTC originally confiscated during the takedown of the Silk Road
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The US government has been seizing and selling bitcoin for the past 10 years, when it should have just held
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As Sam Bankman-Fried prepares to stand trial for his alleged crimes associated with FTX and Alameda Research, social media discussed Ross Ulbricht’s conviction over eight years ago
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Silk Road adviser Roger Clark allegedly suggested that Ross Ulbricht should hire a hitman to kill an ex-employee who stole $350,000
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The US government has been busy selling Silk Road’s bitcoin, but it still has loads more to liquidate over the course of the year
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Roughly $1 billion worth of bitcoin was recovered in what the Department of Justice calls the second-largest financial seizure ever
Ross Ulbricht, a man serving two life sentences in prison after creating a website that was commonly used to buy Fake IDs and narcotics, is now making and auctioning off non-fungible tokens for charity.
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