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James "Jimmy" Zhong (born May 24, 1990) is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; [2] value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion [3]) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014. [4]
17 paź 2023 · CNBC obtained never-before-seen body camera footage that shows how investigators linked Jimmy Zhong to the Silk Road hack.
21 paź 2023 · Guy Who Stole Billions in Bitcoin Lived a Sad Life. Image by Jimmy Zhong. A Bitcoin "original gangster" who stole cryptocurrency from the original Silk Road a decade ago spent lavishly — but...
19 paź 2023 · On the phone was 28-year-old Jimmy Zhong, a local party boy and Georgia alum who frequented Athens' drinking establishments. He wasn't like the other town rowdies – Zhong was also a computer expert who had an unusually robust digital home surveillance system.
20 paź 2023 · In the sting operation, they discovered crucial evidence at Zhong’s residence and managed to get a look at his Bitcoin wallet where he had stored $60 or $70 million worth of Bitcoin, CNBC...
19 paź 2023 · Zhong, who lived a lavish lifestyle using the billions of dollars he made of stolen cryptocurrency, was living on Ruth Street in Athens in March 2019, when he reported his home was burglarized...
28 gru 2023 · An investigation uncovered the messy and intricate operations in which Jimmy Zhong hacked the currency platform and stole 51,680 Bitcoins between 2012 and 2014 utilizing his computer skills. Valued at over $3 billion, the clandestine operation went unnoticed until blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis identified a suspicious transaction that ...
