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Why is it that the sale was broadcast as 30,000 bitcoins
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Where did you get that information? It was never broadcast as 30,000 bitcoins?
Perhaps someone you were talking to rounded up when they discussed it with you, but the official announcement was always:
http://www.usmarshals.gov/assets/2014/bitcoins/FOR SALE
29,656.51306529 bitcoins
And if you look at transaction 9e95c3c3c96f57527cdc649550bf8e92892f7651f718d846033798aee333b0c3
you'll see that address 1a8LDh3qtCdMFAgRXzMrdvB8w1EG4h1Xi
was sent exactly the advertised 29,656.51306529 BTC