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Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?

 
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Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Still think that massive bubble isn't contrived?



Who Owns the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Wallet? The FBI
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Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government.

In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross Ulbricht.

The seizure sparked an ongoing public discussion about the future of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, but it had an unforeseen side-effect: It made the FBI the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet.

The FBI now controls more than 144,000 bitcoins that reside at a bitcoin address that consolidates much of the seized Silk Road bitcoins. Those 144,000 bitcoins are worth close to $100 million at Tuesday’s exchange rates. Another address, containing Silk Road funds seized earlier by the FBI, contains nearly 30,000 bitcoins ($20 million).

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12/11/2017 08:44 PM
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Meh.

NSA created the code.

FBI controls the con.

Whatever. It's the nwo global currency. Ride the wave to prosperity.
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12/11/2017 08:46 PM
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Heard China holds the lion's share. Followed by some American alphabet agencies.
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Did he give up the passphrase?
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Did he give up the passphrase?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75835116

That is a very good question. If he did not and the U.S. Government is able to access the wallet and sell off the Bitcoins then you know they had to have had a back door into it.


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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Still think that massive bubble isn't contrived?



Who Owns the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Wallet? The FBI
[link to www.wired.com (secure)]

Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government.

In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross Ulbricht.

The seizure sparked an ongoing public discussion about the future of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, but it had an unforeseen side-effect: It made the FBI the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet.

The FBI now controls more than 144,000 bitcoins that reside at a bitcoin address that consolidates much of the seized Silk Road bitcoins. Those 144,000 bitcoins are worth close to $100 million at Tuesday’s exchange rates. Another address, containing Silk Road funds seized earlier by the FBI, contains nearly 30,000 bitcoins ($20 million).

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75969931

Thread: Chinese mining pools control more than 70% of the Bitcoin network’s collective hashrate.The (FBI) owns 1.5% of Bitcoin
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Obama started bitcoin as a TARP to track who would acquire it

And Skull and Bones.. above all.. are the most aggressive at Acquiring Coins
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Obama couldn't start a lawn mower
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Obama started bitcoin as a TARP to track who would acquire it

And Skull and Bones.. above all.. are the most aggressive at Acquiring Coins
 Quoting: Open Your Eyes 71059912


Obama couldn't start a lawn mower
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75973912


fact

He may be a good puppet to his handlers, but he is not that bright.
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Heard China holds the lion's share. Followed by some American alphabet agencies.
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Yes, it is a Chinese American person who was interested in coming to our area and setting up their computers in a warehouse setting, to run a crypto-currency thing.
We are not in or want to be involved in buying or working with any crypto-currencies.

If I know it is a bad thing, then the information will be exchanged with our local authorities that we trust.
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99% paper money in, 1% back out.

LUL for big banks
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Still think that massive bubble isn't contrived?



Who Owns the World’s Biggest Bitcoin Wallet? The FBI
[link to www.wired.com (secure)]

Who owns the single largest Bitcoin wallet on the internet? The U.S. government.

In September, the FBI shut down the Silk Road online drug marketplace, and it started seizing bitcoins belonging to the Dread Pirate Roberts — the operator of the illicit online marketplace, who they say is an American man named Ross Ulbricht.

The seizure sparked an ongoing public discussion about the future of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency, but it had an unforeseen side-effect: It made the FBI the holder of the world’s biggest Bitcoin wallet.

The FBI now controls more than 144,000 bitcoins that reside at a bitcoin address that consolidates much of the seized Silk Road bitcoins. Those 144,000 bitcoins are worth close to $100 million at Tuesday’s exchange rates. Another address, containing Silk Road funds seized earlier by the FBI, contains nearly 30,000 bitcoins ($20 million).

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75969931


Do some research first eh?

[link to cointelegraph.com (secure)]

Last Edited by ragebuddy on 12/11/2017 10:25 PM
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OK, OK. I do.
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
Nobody, any1 with a ton of bitcoins was hacked and the bitcoins redistributed.

It's all because we lost Vietnam and the commies have control now.
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12/11/2017 11:42 PM
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Re: Who Owns The World's Biggest Bitcoin Wallet?
wasnt there just an article showing bulgaria police had 3 billion in bitcoin?





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