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June 27, 2014Markets & financeEnforcement actionsdocumented

U.S. Marshals hold the first major government bitcoin auction

The U.S. Marshals Service auctioned roughly 29,656 BTC seized from Silk Road’s servers.

Venture capitalist Tim Draper won all ten lots in the sealed-bid sale. Rather than attempting to destroy or ignore the asset, the government transferred seized bitcoin through a conventional disposal process.