U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1 Billion in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road

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On Tuesday, someone emptied out one of the most mysterious and most valuable Bitcoin wallets in existence, which contained almost $1 billion dollars linked to the notorious Silk Road dark web market.
We now know who did it: the U.S. government.
On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that it had seized the wallet.
 

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