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James "Jimmy" Zhong 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]
7 lis 2022 · U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: "James Zhong committed wire fraud over a decade ago when he stole approximately 50,000 Bitcoin from Silk Road. For almost ten years, the whereabouts of this massive chunk of missing Bitcoin had ballooned into an over $3.3 billion mystery.
7 lis 2022 · The $3.36 billion belonged to James Zhong, 32, of Gainesville and Athens, Georgia. On Friday, Zhong pled guilty to one count of wire fraud, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years...
7 lis 2022 · James Zhong, of Gainesville, Georgia, pleaded guilty Friday to wire fraud in the theft of about $3.36 billion in bitcoin from the illegal Silk Road marketplace.
17 paź 2023 · The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion. Key Points. In 2012, someone stole 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road, an illegal dark web marketplace.
14 kwi 2023 · A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site before his cache hit $3.35 billion in value was ordered to serve a year and a day in prison. James...
7 lis 2022 · James Zhong’s actions date back to September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 bitcoins from the now-infamous dark web site that accepted the cryptocurrency in exchange for drugs and...
