Wednesday, 18. December 2013
Topic: NEWS english - on December 18, 2013 at 5:43:00 PM CET
Who Owns the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Wallet? The FBI
In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross Ulbricht.
The seizure sparked an ongoing public discussion about the future of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, but it had an unforeseen side-effect: It made the FBI the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet.
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