The US government sells at auction 29 thousand Bitcoin, seized from the Silk Road

Today the network has information that the US government has decided to hold an auction for the sale of a large number of Cryptocurrency. We are talking about the number of coins, more than 29 million units Cryptocurrency. According to the current exchange rate is approximately US $ 18 million.

As indicated in the title, the entire amount withdrawn in liquidation Silk Road. Then in the News wrote that the US authorities are going to destroy Bitcoins, however, it was decided to sell them at auction.

The auction itself will be held later this month, and buy everything at once will not be necessary. Lot will be divided into 10 parts, each of which will be sold separately (approximate amount - 1, 8 million US dollars). Actually, any Bidder can buy any number of items, though all at once, if the maximum bet. In other words, restrictions on the number of lots "in one hand," no.

More interesting is that Bitcoins seized from Ross Ulbricht, not yet put up for auction, and remain on the balance sheet of the government. Engaged in selling US Marshals Service .

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/226175/