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The Feds Seized $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins

A hacker identified only as Individual X had been sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years prior to the IRS came knocking.More than seven years have passed since Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction area of a San Francisco library and charged with running the sprawling, dark web drug bazaar referred to as the Silk Road. But when the Feds laid hands on Ulbricht's laptop that day, they found keys to unlock only a fraction of the bitcoins he had amassed on the Silk Road's years of bustling black world Market Onion drug trade. Today the Justice Department finally revealed in which a billion-dollar tranche of the Silk Road's treasure finished up: stolen by a strange hacker, and now seized by the US Treasury.