[2014-06-18] CoinDesk: List of Possible Silk Road Bitcoin Bidders Leaked

[scribbles]

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

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).

[howardb]

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.

[ThomasCrowne]

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

[PolarPoint]

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. 

[exponential]

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.   

[LiteCoinGuy]

we dont need snowden anymore, the marshals are alot better 

[segeln]

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 well

[segeln]

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.   

+1
very interesting

[Blinken]

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.

[SgtSpike]

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. 

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.

[Lethn]

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.

[bryant.coleman]

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. 

[gmaxwell]

This wasn't really a bidders list— it was a list of parties who'd contacted USMS with questions.

[bryant.coleman]

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?

[scribbles]

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"