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Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by Pick-A-Hill2019 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:10PM (#25000473)
From the link I dug out in the above comment

"According to an investigation conducted by the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, Individual X was the individual who moved the cryptocurrency from Silk Road. According to the investigation, Individual X was able to hack into Silk Road and gain unauthorized and illegal access to Silk Road and thereby steal the illicit cryptocurrency from Silk Road and move it into wallets that Individual X controlled. According to the investigation, Ulbricht became aware of Individual X’s online identity and threatened Individual X for return of the cryptocurrency to Ulbricht. Individual X did not return the cryptocurrency but kept it and did not spend it. On November 3, 2020, Individual X signed a Consent and Agreement to Forfeiture with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California. In that agreement, Individual X, consented to the forfeiture of the Defendant Property to the United States government. On November 3, 2020, the United States took custody of the Defendant Property from 1HQ3."

Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by gojomo on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:31PM (#25001657)
I wonder: could 'Individual X' be DEA agent Carl Force (previously sentenced to prison), Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges (previously sentenced to prison), or some other government agent or informant who had tried to enrich themselves via the investigation?

More about Force & Bridges: https://freeross.org/corruption/

Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by TinyRick on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:24PM (#25002754)
Or perhaps Thomas Clark, who has his sentencing scheduled for December.
Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by Scoundreller on Thursday November 05, 2020 @01:25PM (#25000593)
Sounds like they bought their way out of a prison sentence?

I wonder if any of the forfeiture got rebated back to them.

Re:U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1B in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked... by hammock on Thursday November 05, 2020 @03:31PM (#25001662)
Any indication that Individual X was working for the government the whole time?