On November 5, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, David L. Anderson (David L. Anderson) announced that the U.S. has filed a civil lawsuit to confiscate 69,370 BTC (approximately $1.08 billion) related to Silk Road, This is also the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The large transaction on the Tokenview chain was monitored on the 4th and related to two transactions:
https://btc.tokenview.com/cn/tx/655283/25, transfer 69369 BTC (anotherhttps://btc.tokenview.com/cn/tx/655282/468, transfer 1 BTC).
These bitcoins were transferred in two installments from 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx (the fourth largest bitcoin wallet in the world) to bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, the 1HQ3Go bitcoin wallet belongs to “Individual X.” Individual X stole the funds from Silk Road, and law enforcement seized the bitcoins on Nov. 3, based on an investigation into the hackers. If the relevant departments auction the confiscated bitcoins as before, it will inevitably have another impact on the bitcoin situation.
As of now, bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6 controlled by the US government has not performed any transfer operations. Follow the official account of Tokenview Blockchain Browser, and you can subscribe to the balance change notification of this address for free through the Address Monitoring function, so as to be notified as soon as possible The transfer operation for this address.
