Forbes: Last fall, the FBI took down the world’s biggest online drug bazaar Silk Road, and arrested the man it alleged to be its kingpin, Ross Ulbricht, 30. The feds seized the site’s assets and Ulbricht’s which were primarily the currency of choice for anonymous purchases: Bitcoin.
A whole lot of Bitcoin: 144,000 from Ulbricht and 30,000 from Silk Road coffers, worth over $100 million at Bitcoin’s current $600 valuation. Nine months later, the government is ready to auction some of it off.
