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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by moftz on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:36AM (#20469603)
They can seize that too and then auction it off later. The FBI seized the SilkRoad's escrow account, 26k BTC.
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by Aeolun on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:43AM (#20469660)
Isn’t that all owned by people? How are they allowed to just take that (and likely from non-us residents as well)?
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by _jal on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:01AM (#20469836)
The relevant question is, who is going to stop them?
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by chrshawkes on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:37AM (#20470928)
Just ask Kim DotCom about that. I mean, he sorta won extradition but the FBI did their best to ruin his life and we're pretty successful at that.
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by vunie on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:07PM (#20475887)
This is what it always boils down to. Right and wrong is irrelevant. Those with the biggest guns win.
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by unilynx on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:32AM (#20470868)
... and those people are free to sue the Silk Road guy for the money they lost.
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by moftz on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:54AM (#20497963)
If you can prove your money is in there and can also prove that the money wasn't proceeds of a crime (selling illegal drugs, firearms, etc) then it's yours. I'm guessing very few people really wanted to tell the FBI who they were and what they were selling/buying on there.
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by gruez on Thursday July 18, 2019 @03:21PM (#20473087)
how do you seize a brainwallet?
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Re:Ex-Microsoft dev used test account to swipe $10M in store... by tdxcbkifxx on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:42PM (#20482293)
By cracking the weak crypto used to generate it
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