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Meet James Zhong, a 22 year old who single handedly stole more than $3.4 ***BILLION*** Bitcoin from The Silk Road in 2012!This is act 3! Go back and watch a...
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.
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]
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...
13 wrz 2023 · In November 2021, IRS Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) seized 50,676 Bitcoin from James Zhong, an American who pled guilty to wire fraud for stealing that Bitcoin from the darknet market Silk Road in September 2012. With a value of $3.36 billion, this marks one of the largest cryptocurrency seizures in history.
9 maj 2023 · by Elias Ahonen 13 min May 9, 2023. Where would you hide $3.4 billion worth of Bitcoin? For James Zhong, the ideal spot was to store it on a computer — with its circuitry exposed — placed in a...
14 kwi 2023 · The U.S. Justice Department announced James Zhong had been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for charges related to executing a scheme to steal more than 51,680 Bitcoin.
