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Silk Road was an online black market, selling everything from drugs to stolen credit cards and murderers-for-hire. Where did the money go? The Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit said it used third-party company to analyse Bitcoin transactions that had been executed by Silk Road. This led it to an address belonging to "Individual X", who is alleged to have hacked the funds from the marketplace.
Law enforcement officers in turn took control of the sum on 3 November, and the DoJ claims the funds are now subject to forfeiture. In , Bitcoin seized from a different wallet associated with Silk Road was sold at auction by the US government. Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is currently serving two life sentences in prison after being found guilty of money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
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