At the end of 2024, a US court authorized the Department of Justice to sell 69,370 bitcoins from "the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history," worth nearly $6.4 billion.
The bitcoins were initially stolen from Silk Road in 2012 and were discovered by the US government in 2020 during further investigations into the marketplace.
A dispute arose when Battle Born Investments attempted to claim rights over the bitcoins, thinking they were linked to the hacker, but courts upheld the government's seizure.
Battle Born's efforts to unmask the hacker through a FOIA request ultimately failed, with the court ruling in favor of the hacker's right to privacy.
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