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The Feds Seized $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins

A hacker identified only as Individual X have been sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years before the IRS came knocking.More than seven years have passed since Ross Ulbricht was arrested in the science fiction element of a San Francisco library and faced with running the sprawling, dark web drug bazaar called the Silk Road. But once the Feds laid hands on Ulbricht's laptop that day, they found keys to unlock only a fraction of the bitcoins he had amassed over 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 mystical hacker, and now seized by the US Treasury.