Ten-year hunt leads to 50,000 stolen Bitcoin stored in a popcorn tin and underground safe

Nick Barclay / The Verge

The Department of Justice announced it’s seized around 50,676 Bitcoin that a 32-year-old from Georgia fraudulently obtained from The Silk Road — a site on the dark web once called “the Amazon of drugs” — in 2012. After seemingly tipping authorities off to his large cache of Bitcoin a few years ago…
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