1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX Total Received: 27,365.1337 BTC
That's $3,245,000 USD
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Anonymous2013-10-03 23:02
What are they going to do with all those Bitcoin? After Satoshi, Gox, and maybe a couple of other exchanges, they are probably the single largest holder now. Will they save them for future operations? I wonder if they realize that if they send from anything that can be linked to that address, everyone will know they are police. Will they sell them off all at once and crash the market? I'm sure something that valuable has to be accounted for. How will the government react?
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Anonymous2013-10-04 0:07
>>2
Using those bitcoins would have some complex legal implications, so I won't expect any movement from that address in at least three years. They may use all that money for future operations as well, but it's going to be very difficult for them to hide who they actually are..
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Anonymous2013-10-04 0:11
They can split it into different accounts and make people work to keep track of them.
>>4
Yeah, they could give it all to some exchange in exchange for clean (or in this case, do they want dirty?) coins. But that's millions of dollars seized in the middle of a government shutdown when thousands of agents are working without pay.... I suspect they'll sell it all off.
If it crashes, maybe it will restore some reality into the pricing.
>>5
No shit, really? Amazing! It's like you read the wiki article or something.
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Anonymous2013-10-04 1:07
>>3
They'll figure something out. NSA and FBI employ the brightest mathematicians and computer scientists in the world.
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Anonymous2013-10-04 1:24
Wait, I thought it was $27,000 WORTH of bitcoin, not 27,000 bitcoin.
>>9 Upon receiving confirmation of the delivery, the Vendor transmitted the agreed payment through the Silk Road payment system. Payment was made in Bitcoin valued, at the time, at approximately $27,000.
That's what was paid to kill someone, not the amount that was seized. That's the Maryland indictment for murder, not the drug case in NY anyway.
>>11
Hidden service != nodes / relays.
If you actually read the story behind silk road being shut down it becomes pretty obvious that they did it using good old fashioned detective work rather than high-tech trickery.
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Anonymous2013-10-04 4:48
>>14
I know. The idiot went around spamming forums with his real gmail address, which was linked to his name, then he posted to StackOverflow asking how to use curl with Tor, only to remember that that also had his name linked on it and change it less than a minute later. Tor can't protect you from yourself. If only he had read the FAQ! What a fucking moron. I wanted some cyberpunk guy in a trench coat in a well air-conditioned room, wearing mirror shades despite there being no lights on. I expect this kind of careless idiocy from pedophiles who think that a swirl effect is irreversible, or have a rare painting in the background, or take a picture of the naked loli holding his driver's license for some reason (it happened), but not from someone who has hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
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Anonymous2013-10-04 5:16
naked loli holding his driver's license for some reason (it happened)
Hahahaha, wow.
You almost have to wonder whether it was a framing or he wanted to be caught or something.
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