米国 10億US$以上の価値のある暗号通貨を没収するための民事訴訟を提起

こんにちは、丸山満彦です。

シルクロードが潰されてそのBitcoinがどこにいったのか、、、当時押収した分はオークションにかけられて現金化されましたが、それ以外にもあったので、それがどこにいったのかという話です。

2020.11.03に69,369 BTC（約1000億円）の移動があり、それがどこに移ったのか？という話ですが、米国政府が管理する口座に移されたようですね。

訴訟で所有権を米国政府に移そうということですね。。。

● Department of Justice - Northern District of Californi

・2020.11.05 (news) United States Files A Civil Action To Forfeit Cryptocurrency Valued At Over One Billion U.S. Dollars

Seizure Of Bitcoins Represents The Largest Cryptocurrency Seizure To Date

・[PDF] Case 3:20-cv-07811-VC Document 1

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■ 参考（報道等）

● COINPOST

・2020.11.06 米政府、1000億円相当のビットコインを押収

・2020.11.04 1000億円相当のビットコインが移動 by 菊谷ルイス

● CNBC

・2020.11.05 Record $1 billion worth of bitcoin linked to the Silk Road seized by U.S. government by Kate Rooney

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• Thousands of bitcoins -- worth $1 billion -- were seized by law enforcement this week in what the Justice Department said was the largest seizure of cryptocurrency in the history of agency.
• The cryptocurrency is linked to sales of illicit drugs and goods on Silk Road, a dark web marketplace that shut down in 2013.
• “Silk Road was the most notorious online criminal marketplace of its day,” says U.S. Attorney David Anderson of the Northern District of California. “The successful prosecution of Silk Road’s founder in 2015 left open a billion-dollar question. Where did the money go?”

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● BBC

・2020.11.06 Bitcoin: $1bn seized from Silk Road account by US government

More than $1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin linked to the notorious Silk Road website has been seized by the US Department of Justice (DoJ).

● The VICE

・2020.11.06 U.S. Feds Seized Nearly $1 Billion in Bitcoin from Wallet Linked to Silk Road by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Speculation kicked off after someone moved the huge sum on Tuesday, and now we know who it was: the U.S. government.

● The VERGE

・2020.11.06 The US government seized $1 billion in bitcoin from dark web marketplace Silk Road by James Vincent 

Feds grabbed the money with the help of an unknown hacker

● WIRED

・2020.11.05 The Feds Seized $1 Billion in Stolen Silk Road Bitcoins

A hacker identified only as Individual X had been sitting on a cryptocurrency gold mine for seven years before the IRS came knocking.