The United States hold 144 000 bitcoin

in #unclesams7 years ago

The federal gourmet (Uncle sams) had its hands on 144 000 bitcoins in 2013, they where auctions of for 48 million dollars, if they would have kept them today it would be worth over 1.6 billion dollars, the FBI they seized it in 2013 while shutting down the Silk Road marketplace. Silk road market place was an online black market for selling illegal drugs. #bitcoin #ethereum #litecoin #bitcoincash #cardano #ripple #stellar #neo #monero #dash #nem #iota #tron #eos #icon #crypto #cryptocurrency #binance #poloniex #bittrex #hitbtc #cryptopia #huobi #kucoin #bitconnect

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I was actually reading the other day they still have them. they just got permission to start auctioning them off soon.

https://www.coindesk.com/us-government-to-sell-off-10-million-in-seized-bitcoin-and-bitcoin-cash/

They keep on seizing by the day lol, i know there auctioning also around 3800 bitcoin in few days, but i know the 144 thousand the seized in 2013 were already auctioned for 48 mil 🤦‍♂️

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