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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.

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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.