FBI to Auction Off Silk Road Bitcoins

[JessyMatt]

http://www.bitcoinvalues.net/silk-road-bitcoin-auction-fbi.html

[ljudotina]

OMG really?! This is only 100th thread about it?! If you didint repeat that AGIAN we would have never known!
Really now...do you even check boards before you post?

[Gianluca95]

I want to tell you one thing:

Yesterday evening, when this news was going out, there weren't many topic which talks about it, you're the 100th people which open a similar thread !

 

[ShakyhandsBTCer]

The price of bitcoin will likely fall in anticipation of the auction, however will rise once all the supply has reached the market.

The auction will likely make the mainstream media and will raise awareness about bitcoin.

[mymenace]

some great things to come out of this

The US government has made bitcoin even more legitimate with the selling of btc

this must be the ultimate tick for btc as a currency if your own government is profiting from btc

another tick and if I am correct is the purchase of btc by this organisation BNP Paribas (the Bank of Paris), never heard of a bank purchasing btc


a list of investors looking into buying the silk road btc from coindesk

http://www.coindesk.com/list-possible-silk-road-bitcoin-bidders-allegedly-leaked-us-marshals/

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., Rangeley 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

[knightcoin]

[knightcoin]

 

[DannyElfman]

some great things to come out of this

The US government has made bitcoin even more legitimate with the selling of btc

this must be the ultimate tick for btc as a currency if your own government is profiting from btc

another tick and if I am correct is the purchase of btc by this organisation BNP Paribas (the Bank of Paris), never heard of a bank purchasing btc


a list of investors looking into buying the silk road btc from coindesk

http://www.coindesk.com/list-possible-silk-road-bitcoin-bidders-allegedly-leaked-us-marshals/

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., Rangeley 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

The guy from Rowan likely was on that list because he was asking questions about the auctions for academic purposes. Professors are pretty well paid but generally do not have that much money

[negafen]

The guy from Rowan likely was on that list because he was asking questions about the auctions for academic purposes. Professors are pretty well paid but generally do not have that much money

Well paid but do not have much money? They don't have saving?

[DannyElfman]

The guy from Rowan likely was on that list because he was asking questions about the auctions for academic purposes. Professors are pretty well paid but generally do not have that much money

Well paid but do not have much money? They don't have saving?

They are not so well paid that they have 2-3 million that then can invest in a speculative investment

[Skele]

The price of bitcoin will likely fall in anticipation of the auction, however will rise once all the supply has reached the market.

The auction will likely make the mainstream media and will raise awareness about bitcoin.

Indeed happened, you are some kind of wizard or I lack some Bitcoin logistics, anyway, our crypto-baby is having a good time 

[gmx95]

Does anyone know what was the actual price at the auction? Some other thread says that Second Market were outbid, meaning someone offered a higher price then what they did. I wonder what it was and who got it in the end.

[DannyElfman]

The price of bitcoin will likely fall in anticipation of the auction, however will rise once all the supply has reached the market.

The auction will likely make the mainstream media and will raise awareness about bitcoin.

Indeed happened, you are some kind of wizard or I lack some Bitcoin logistics, anyway, our crypto-baby is having a good time 

the loosing bidders likely bought bitcoin on exchanges after they realized that they did not win their bid