Reports suggest that 69k Bitcoins with ties to the Silk Road have been pushed out of the world’s fourth-largest Bitcoin address. Speculations link site creator Ross Ulbricht to the move.
Silk Road, one of the most popular deep web marketplaces for drugs and murder-for-hire, was conclusively shut down by the FBI in 2013. The operation led to the arrest of site owners; millions of dollars worth of Bitcoins were seized as well. In subsequent years, the U.S. government auctioned off this wealth on the U.S. Marshals Service website. Years later, in 2020, it seems that the ghost of Silk Road still remains.
