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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: prophexy on October 02, 2013, 04:04 pm
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I am DEVASTATED That SR is permanently down! But what happens to the amount of BitCoins I had in my wallet?!?! Where the fuck did they go?!?
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I am DEVASTATED That SR is permanently down! But what happens to the amount of BitCoins I had in my wallet?!?! Where the fuck did they go?!?
The po-po has it now.
Goodbye all!
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Do they?
Or are the wallets kept on a separate server from the website, with the possibility of somehow reclaiming them by activating a backup system?
Personally i didn't have -that- much in my SR wallet (i don't keep btc there long term), but there must be a shitload worth of BTC tied up in escrow and such. I doubt these can all be seized, some of it is for perfectly legal transactions between parties all outside the US.
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I lost a couple thousand bitcoins. :(
They only seized 26000 bitcoins. Seems like a small amount for that to be everything that was on SR.
Anyone else feel like they just lost a house?
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More like a nation. :(
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Clearnet confirms: http://nation.time.com/2013/10/02/alleged-silk-road-proprietor-ross-william-ulbricht-arrested-3-6m-in-bitcoin-seized/
$3.6 million, thats about 26000 BTC seized by police.
Is that actually all of our wallets, is that what was in escrow, or is that just DPR's personal wallet, i.e. money earned from commission and such?
The number seems too low to me to encompass all the users wallets and all the money in escrow combined. I would have expected much more to be tied up in escrow considering the volume of trade on SR and the average time it would take between placing an order and receiving it.