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No, the US authorities hasn’t liquidated 69,000 Silk Highway bitcoin — but

By Editorial Board Published January 10, 2025 3 Min Read
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No, the US authorities hasn’t liquidated 69,000 Silk Highway bitcoin — but

The US District Court docket for the Northern District of California has signed off on the US authorities’s liquidation of 69,370 bitcoins (BTC) seized from “Individual X” related to Ross Ulbricht’s Silk Highway. That judicial ruling denies Battle Born Investments Firm’s bid to dam the sale.

The US authorities’s pockets nonetheless comprises these 69,370 BTC. Simply verifiable on-chain, it’s clear that legislation enforcement officers haven’t offered these cash.

Some observers speculated that the Justice Division (DoJ) may promote the BTC earlier than the presidential inauguration on January 20. Nevertheless, that doesn’t imply that the sale of the Silk Highway BTC will occur imminently.

The DoJ, which holds the seized BTC, nonetheless has administrative procedures to observe earlier than transferring or promoting the cash.

That was a 1.5% crash and $27 billion lack of market capitalization inside six minutes.

BTC’s value dropped from $94,900 at 9:06pm to $93,439 by 9:12pm.

The bitcoin from Silk Highway’s ‘Individual X’

The BTC in query, which is value greater than $6 billion, arrived in US custody after the FBI and DoJ seized property from somebody listed in court docket paperwork as “Individual X.” Particular person X allegedly stole the BTC from Silk Highway.

The plaintiff on this case that had paused the liquidation of those property, Battle Born Investments Firm, was pursuing a Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) request to disclose this particular person’s identify.

*DOJ CLEARED TO SELL $6.5B IN SEIZED SILK ROAD BITCOIN: OFFICIAL

— db (@tier10k) January 9, 2025
This information headline arrived 9 days after the occasion truly occured.

Battle Born Investments Firm claims possession of the BTC. It claims it acquired the 69,370 cash from a chapter property related to Raymond Ngan, whom it suspects is Particular person X.

The federal government denied Battle Born Investments Firm’s FOIA request, making it unimaginable for it to publicly verify its suspicions about Ngan.

The US authorities has periodically offered BTC associated to different Silk Highway instances. Certainly, it moved 2,000 cash to a Coinbase pockets in March 2024, just a few months earlier than the US Marshals Service confirmed that Coinbase would offer custody service for the BTC in its coffers.

US Marshals additionally offered a separate 9,861.17 BTC in March 2023.

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