- vom US-Justizministerium. Das Geld gehört einem Ring von Kriminellen (Silk Road). Blödsinnigerweise steigerte diese "Verknappung" den Kurs von Bitcoin deutlich.
Der Bitcoin-Kurs hat sich in den letzten Wochen verdoppelt (Chart unten), während der SP-500 im gleichen Zeitraum seitwärts lief.
www.marketwatch.com/story/...h-stealing-1-billion-11604592280
Initially, speculation had it that $1 billion worth of bitcoin might have just been stolen by hackers. It turns out the U.S. government was behind it all along.
The Justice Department this week reportedly seized that unprecedented sum, which sat dormant for years in a wallet linked to Silk Road, the online black market that was shut down in 2013.
“Silk Road was the most notorious online criminal marketplace of its day,” U.S. Attorney David Anderson said in a civil complaint Thursday. “The successful prosecution of Silk Road’s founder in 2015 left open a billion-dollar question. Where did the money go?”
The seizure, as Bloomberg News reported, removed a big chunk of bitcoin from circulation, which likely gave another boost to the price of the digital currency. In the past, the government has auctioned off smaller seizures, but typically not until months later.
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