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10.11.2022 - 16:23 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A stolen sum of around £3billion in Bitcoin has been discovered in a property a decade after it was stolen on the dark web. Police finally solved one of the biggest Bitcoin busts of all time when they uncovered the stash in the home of James Zhong, 32, who had been hiding the cryptocurrency on computer devices, including one stored within a popcorn tin.
Zhong, from Georgia, US, pleaded guilty on Friday to committing wire fraud in 2012 after he hacked over 50,000 Bitcoin, which totalled to £2.9billion from dark web marketplace, Silk Road, the Mirror reports. The hacker now faces a 20-year prison sentence after police found the hidden devices in Zhong's room in a safe under the floorboards and on a single board computer that was tucked away under blankets in a popcorn tin in his bathroom.
US Attorney, Damian Williams said the whereabouts of the huge chunk of bitcoin that went missing ten years ago had blown up and became a £2.9billion mystery. He said: "Thanks to state-of-the-art cryptocurrency tracing and good old-fashioned police work, law enforcement located and recovered this impressive cache of crime proceeds."
Bitcoin's digital currency is entirely virtual and completely out with the control of governments and central banks. It's market wildly shifts as the value crashed to below £17,000 from £61,000 last year.
Zhong stole the online cash from Silk Road, which used to be an online black market where internet users could anonymously purchase and sell illegal goods, including drugs and fake drivers licenses. But the organisation was shut down in 2013 when a sting operation uncovered the 29-year-old, Ross Ulbricht, who was behind the illicit site.
He was given two life sentences for being the mastermind behind the
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