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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 · In a Nov. 7 announcement, the U.S. Department of Justice said James Zhong pled guilty to wire fraud charges related to executing a scheme to steal roughly 50,676 Bitcoin from Silk Road.
Yesterday the Department of Justice shared "Exhibit 5 - Document 394-5" in the case of James Zhong (a.k.a. Loaded), who was arrested and convicted of wire fraud ... for defrauding online marketplace Silk Road of $1,049,989,971 (50,676.17 BTC). Archived post. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Sort by: Best.
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...
20 kwi 2023 · Jimmy Zhong appeared to have pulled off the perfect crime. In December 2012, he stumbled upon a software bug that allowed him to steal 50,000 bitcoins from a site on the dark web called the...
