Current Events > Ross Ulbricht Aka dread pirate Roberts had 144,336 bitcoins.

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Hed be a billionaire now man. Dang.
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I don't think people that mentally unstable would keep all that.
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lol
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Also imagine trying to cash out a billion dollars in completely illegal money.
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i was wondering what happened to those after he got busted.

do the feds own those coins now?
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Talks posted...

I don't think people that mentally unstable would keep all that.

Let me guess, you believe the government's unproven allegations that he hired a hitman?

It's sick how the government got to accuse him and smear him of that and never actually take it to trial, yet everyone still believes it and it was even allowed to be mentioned at his trial for drug selling despite him not having been convicted of anything.
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2 billion 670 million lol that dude
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Talks posted...

Also imagine trying to cash out a billion dollars in completely illegal money.

I bet you could do it in a country like Saudi Arabia or the UAE
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If the government wanted to make something up, they'd make a parallel construction and it wouldn't be unproven

I don't have any particularly strong convictions about the entire situation, I'm not informed
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We can't pretend to know with any tiny shred of certainty whether or not the assassination thing was legit if the government never brings it to trial, which seems to be their plan. You'd think they would bring it to trial if they had the evidence to do so. The thing that really irks me is that they were allowed to mention it at his trial, though the judge did end up saying that they didn't factor into his life sentence, and that the life sentence was due to the extremely harsh drug laws that exist for selling huge amounts.
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Talks posted...

Also imagine trying to cash out a billion dollars in completely illegal money.

I mean you can't. Literally can't. This isn't like an RPG where you can sell infinity items to the same merchant. They eventually run out of money.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Talks posted...

Also imagine trying to cash out a billion dollars in completely illegal money.

I mean you can't. Literally can't. This isn't like an RPG where you can sell infinity items to the same merchant. They eventually run out of money.

He could have slowly sold it off over time. He wouldn't be able to do it all at once. The daily volume is about $13.7 bn (recently at least) to give you an idea of how much is traded on a given day.
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https://gizmodo.com/feds-rush-to-cash-in-on-seized-bitcoin-cache-before-the-1821329360
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