Sudden new largest bitcoin address as of 10/25

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This is now the top story at forbes.com.

It was also pointed out by Mike Caldwell in the Press section that "FBI" encodes as "324" on a telephone pad.  Does that not seem like too much fanfare for the FBI?

I can't imagine someone at the FBI doing the transfers slowly in 324 units. It would be madness and the supervising officer would surely wonder why it's taking so long.

Also, why would the FBI want to tag their transfers?

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That reddit piece makes interesting reading:
http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkroadUNcensored/comments/1p0ogt/

With that as hindsight it will be worth keeping an eye on this.

I like a good conspiracy story as much as the next person but this one is a little wide of reality.

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Lol. The thread had indeed been moved to off-topic. Just speculatin' 

Now I can't find the little grey "Moved..." hyperlink anywhere in General. Some mod really went out of their way to hide that thread without the obvious deletion... Doo-dee-doo-duu-doo-dee-doo-duu...

STFU, moron...

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=316855.0

I guess I was too much of a moron to look through 3 days of history for a link that was there earlier today. My bad.

F@ck him, in real life I bet he is a pussy...

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That reddit piece makes interesting reading:
http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkroadUNcensored/comments/1p0ogt/

With that as hindsight it will be worth keeping an eye on this.

I like a good conspiracy story as much as the next person but this one is a little wide of reality.

How hard can it be to find some evidence to back a story that's been all over the headlines? So far in that thread no one has come up with any evidence that the FBI had any involvement in either this or the SR shutdown.

I don't know if this is sufficient evidence but it's all I could do with Google. Here's the FBI website:

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2013/manhattan-u.s.-attorney-announces-seizure-of-additional-28-million-worth-of-bitcoins-belonging-to-ross-william-ulbricht-alleged-owner-and-operator-of-silk-road-website


I know the two links are to the same source but the rest of the news articles and Wikipedia pages pointed to the same places so I figured it was a good start.

I can't confirm the story wasn't planted or that the website hasn't been hacked though so you'll have to take my word for it that I'm not involved.

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I like the irony that now if Bitcoin pumpers drive the price up they essentially giving the FBI money.

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I like the irony that now if Bitcoin pumpers drive the price up they essentially giving the FBI money.

Exactly. Good point.