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Title: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: scribbles on June 18, 2014, 07:19:21 PM http://www.coindesk.com/list-possible-silk-road-bitcoin-bidders-allegedly-leaked-us-marshals/ (http://www.coindesk.com/list-possible-silk-road-bitcoin-bidders-allegedly-leaked-us-marshals/) Quote A list of potential buyers for almost 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS). Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: howardb on June 18, 2014, 07:29:52 PM The one that caught my eye was "Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas" big banks wanting in as many have suspected. Several have speculated that the push down on BTC prior to this recent rise was manipulation by big boys to give them a better in.
Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: ThomasCrowne on June 18, 2014, 07:32:42 PM Now that is funny! Guess the USMS isn't all that technically competent after all. Maybe they shoulda got the NSA in there to handle something as complicated as e-mail
Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: PolarPoint on June 18, 2014, 07:40:27 PM The article mentioned that the list is actually "some" of the bidders. So, there is more? May be they leaked it on purpose? Now everyone knows the big boys are in the game, bidders would need to up their bids if they are serious. ;D
Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: exponential on June 18, 2014, 07:45:49 PM The most noteable to me was the WilmerHale lawyer. if you take a look at the list of their representative clients, some interesting ones pop up (http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/representativeclients/)
some noteable ones were, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other places of the sort. Not trying to create rumors but I think it would be a worthwile assumption that these big companies would use their lawyers to do the bidding on the coins. Now whether these are companies interested or not is a whole different question. Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: LiteCoinGuy on June 18, 2014, 08:56:31 PM we dont need snowden anymore, the marshals are alot better :P
Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: segeln on June 18, 2014, 09:03:35 PM The one that caught my eye was "Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas" big banks wanting in as many have suspected. Several have speculated that the push down on BTC prior to this recent rise was manipulation by big boys to give them a better in. caught my eye as wellTitle: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: segeln on June 18, 2014, 09:04:20 PM The most noteable to me was the WilmerHale lawyer. if you take a look at the list of their representative clients, some interesting ones pop up (http://www.wilmerhale.com/about/representativeclients/) +1 some noteable ones were, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other places of the sort. Not trying to create rumors but I think it would be a worthwile assumption that these big companies would use their lawyers to do the bidding on the coins. Now whether these are companies interested or not is a whole different question. very interesting Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: Blinken on June 18, 2014, 09:15:08 PM Does anybody have a link to the full list ?
And by the way LOL what a blunder. Sure am glad I wasn't on that list, and I almost was, but decided not to apply at the last second for privacy reasons.... little did I know. Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: SgtSpike on June 18, 2014, 09:16:36 PM The article mentioned that the list is actually "some" of the bidders. So, there is more? May be they leaked it on purpose? Now everyone knows the big boys are in the game, bidders would need to up their bids if they are serious. ;D There's 37 total, but the others have not been leaked as far as I have seen.Note that these are just anyone who has contacted the office regarding the office - it is NOT a list of bidders who have met the $200k deposit requirement. Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: Lethn on June 18, 2014, 09:48:55 PM I bet Max Keiser will be involved somewhere in this auction, he said awhile ago to the fed that he'd like to buy the confiscated coins on his show when the rumours started.
Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: bryant.coleman on June 19, 2014, 06:52:29 AM Interesting list there.... lot of big names.
Daniel Folkinshteyn, assistant professor at Rowan University Barry Silbert, CEO for SecondMarket Luther Lowe, director of public policy for Yelp Malcolm Oluwasanmi, chairperson of Little Phoenix Investment Group Fabrice Evangelista, quantitative arbitrage at BNP Paribas Michal Handerhanm, co-founder and COO of Bitcoin Shop Dave Goel, managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management Dinuka Samarasinghe, investment professional Chris DeMuth Jr., Wrangeley Capital Fred Ehrsam, co-founder, Coinbase Jonathan Disner, corporate counsel at DRW Trading Group William Brindise, head investment manager at DigitalBTC Michael Moro, director at SecondMarket Jennifer R. Jacoby, lawyer at WilmerHale Sam Lee, co-founder, Bitcoins Reserve Shem Booth-Spain, artist and musician Avarus Corporation Only 2 or 3 are individuals. The others are all big institutional investors. ;D Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: gmaxwell on June 19, 2014, 06:56:52 AM This wasn't really a bidders list— it was a list of parties who'd contacted USMS with questions.
Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: bryant.coleman on June 19, 2014, 10:08:59 AM This wasn't really a bidders list— it was a list of parties who'd contacted USMS with questions. Oops... seems like you were right. CoinDesk just updated their article. The list contains the names of potential buyers... not conformed participants to the Bitcoin auction. Is this a good news, or a bad news? Title: Re: [2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked Post by: scribbles on June 19, 2014, 03:55:21 PM This wasn't really a bidders list— it was a list of parties who'd contacted USMS with questions. Yes, as stated right in the title of the article, and thread: "List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked" |