{"id":105715,"date":"2020-11-05T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/justice-department-seizes-1-billion-in-recently-moved-silk-road-crypto\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T17:31:10","slug":"justice-department-seizes-1-billion-in-recently-moved-silk-road-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/justice-department-seizes-1-billion-in-recently-moved-silk-road-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"# Justice Department seizes $1 billion in recently moved Silk Road crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Justice Department seizes $1 billion in recently moved Silk Road crypto <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjAtMTEvYTRkMjI0OTgtNjQ1NS00MWI5LWJhMWEtOWI3MmM4ODJkMzc5LmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-v-5a136f3a=\"\">In a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/18607888\/1\/united-states-v-approximately-69370-bitcoin-btc-bitcoin-gold-btg\/\">filing<\/a> from Wednesday, the Department of\u00a0 Justice asked to seize $1 billion from an unnamed hacker.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the DoJ is asking the court of the Northern District of California to lock down on: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>roximately 69,370.22491543 Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), Bitcoin SV (BSV), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), obtained from 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court document did not identify the person behind the wallet, instead referring to them as &#8220;Individual X,&#8221; but it does allege that they managed to hack Silk Road and steal the crypto, much to the chagrin of Ross Ulbricht. The hacker apparently already agreed to sign over the funds as of Monday, which is likely why those funds\u00a0changed hands\u00a0for the first time in five years this week.<\/p>\n<p>The value of those funds today makes this the largest crypto seizure in history.<\/p>\n<p>The DoJ has gotten much more active in crypto in the past month. At the beginning of October, the agency\u00a0released its framework\u00a0for crypto enforcement, which some have\u00a0called a harbinger\u00a0of a major crackdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"law_decoded\"\/>Meanwhile, the DoJ has profited considerably by\u00a0auctioning off\u00a0confiscated crypto.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DoJ had not responded to Cointelegraph&#8217;s request for comment as of publication time.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story is breaking and will be subject to updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/justice-department-seizes-1-billion-in-recently-moved-silk-road-crypto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Justice Department seizes $1 billion in recently moved Silk Road crypto &#8221; In a filing from Wednesday, the Department of\u00a0 Justice asked to seize $1 billion from an unnamed hacker. Specifically, the DoJ is asking the court of the Northern District of California to lock down on: &#8220;Approximately 69,370.22491543 Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Gold (BTG),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2020-11\/a4d22498-6455-41b9-ba1a-9b72c882d379.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78420,71391,55229,70934],"class_list":["post-105715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-silk-road","tag-department-of-justice","tag-law","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}