The Silk Road market may be dead—we actually checked just to see if it came back somehow—but its wallet appears to be alive. Over a billion dollars in Bitcoin are being moved from several wallets that are all tied to the supposed original Silk Road cold storage wallet.
Reddit user sick_silk brought this to the public’s attention after publishing all of his research on the activity connected to Silk Road over the last three days. It turns out that whoever possesses the 60,000 coins—now worth around $422 million—is moving them quickly to several addresses, loading each with exactly 100 coins.
The process took several steps, each one creating a new Bitcoin wallet and splitting the coins ...
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