Who moved $3M in Silk Road BTC? Dormant addresses spring back to life
Over 176 low-value transfers, $3.1 million worth of ‘dust’ was consolidated from Silk Road-era addresses before moving to Coinbase Prime.
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Over 176 low-value transfers, $3.1 million worth of ‘dust’ was consolidated from Silk Road-era addresses before moving to Coinbase Prime.
Read more (2 min) →Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht received millions of dollars in crypto and could owe a substantial amount in gift taxes to the IRS.
Someone donated 300 BTC to Ross Ulbricht this weekend, and despite some initial skepticism, it doesn't appear to be him.
Ulbricht lost $12M to a Maximal Extractable Value bot operator, meaning he can't claim that he was giving back to his supporters.
As Bitcoiners cheer the presidential pardon of Ross Ulbricht, few remember his still-imprisoned second-in-command, Variety Jones.
Traders were spooked on Wednesday when it was reported that the US government could be set to sell 69,370 Silk Road bitcoins.
If Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is released by Donald Trump next year, he will likely leave prison with a few thousand dollars.
The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a bankruptcy lawsuit that has prevented the liquidation of $4.4 billion worth of bitcoin.
Almost a decade ago, NASDAQ purchased a Silk Road bitcoin-holding entity with ties to some of crypto’s largest companies.
The DEA seized 8,100 bitcoin from Silk Road vendor Banmeet Singh as part of the largest crypto and cash seizure in DEA history.