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The
Marshals Service did not identify the winners in what marked the
final auction stemming from the case of Ross Ulbricht, who
authorities say ran Silk Road, where the digital currency could
be used to buy illegal drugs and other goods.
The breakdown by amount of bitcoins won per bidder was 4,000,
6,000, 10,000 and about 24,341, said Lynzey Donahue, a Marshals
Service spokeswoman. Those bitcoins were worth $14.3 million,
according to the Bitstamp exchange.
On Monday, New York-based bitcoin exchange itBit said it won
five blocks of the digital currency equivalent to about 10,000
bitcoins at last week's auction, conducted by the U.S. Marshals
Service.
The bid by itBit was organized on behalf of a syndicate of the
exchange's and over-the-counter trading clients, said Bobby Cho,
director of trading at itBit, in an email to Reuters.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss in New
York; Editing by W Simon and Bill Rigby)
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