18
Police seize record 50,000 Bitcoin from now-defunct piracy site (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 9 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/interestingshare@lemmy.zip
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The police in Saxony, eastern Germany, have seized 50,000 Bitcoin from the former operator of the pirate site movie2k.to through a voluntary deposit to a state-controlled wallet.

This is a record figure for the country's law enforcement authorities, corresponding to over $2.1 billion at today's Bitcoin-USD exchange rate.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] SilverShark@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

That's worth over 2 billion euros. What is then done with this? Will the government try to convert it to euros?

this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2024
18 points (100.0% liked)

Interesting Shares

1027 readers
154 users here now

Share interesting articles, projects, research, pictures, or videos.

Please include a prefix in your title!

Prefixes for posts

Certain clients offer filters to make prefixes searchable. Photon (m.lemmy.zip) used for hyperlinks below:

Icon attribution

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
BrikoX@lemmy.zip