US Marshals Accidentally Reveal Potential Bidders For Gov't-Seized Bitcoin

Posted by timothy on Friday June 20, 2014 @05:06PM from the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "When the U.S. government shut down the Silk Road marketplace, they seized its assets, including roughly $18 million in bitcoin, and despite the government's ambivalence about the cryptocurrency, they plan to auction the bitcoin off to the highest bidder, as they do with most criminal assets. Ironically, considering many bitcoin users' intense desire for privacy, the U.S. Marshall service accidentally revealed the complete list of potential bidders by sending a message to everyone on the list and putting their addresses in the CC field instead of the BCC field."

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Spoils of war. by tragedy · 2014-06-20 18:25 · Score: 5, Insightful

Am I the only one who gets disturbed every time it's blithely mentioned that this or that police agency gets to take spoils for themselves? It seems a little... inherently corrupt.