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Re:Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk ... by arachnophobe on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:33AM (#15669236)
Agreed about the clickbait title - he didn't steal from the Silk Road wallet: "Bridges was arrested and taken into custody on charges related to the theft of approximately 1,600 bitcoin from a digital wallet belonging to the U.S. government"
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Re:Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk ... by tristanj on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:56AM (#15669305)
>he didn't steal from the Silk Road wallet

The authors are simplifying, at the time he stole the coins they belonged to the Silk Road. Later the U.S. seized all bitcoins belonging to the Silk Road. Bridges lied about the coins and never gave the coins back to the govt, hence the theft.

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