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Nearly $1bn (£772m) in Bitcoin connected to the famous Silk Road site is being moved, analysts say. The US government shut down the Silk Road in 2013. The Silk Road was an online black market, offering everything from stolen credit card information to drugs and murderers for- hire.

It's not clear whether the owner of Silk Road is making these transaction or hackers are doing this. A Report from Blockchain trackers Elliptic and Ciphertrace said that almost 69,370 bitcoins were from an account believed to begin from the Silk Road.

According to website BitInfoCharts, this online wallet the fourth-richest Bitcoin address over the world.

Who's responsible?

Either to cash in the funds or to protect them, the money could be moving by criminals with access to the wallet if hackers undermined the real account. However, either through a hack or with the cooperation of a criminal with access to the wallet, law requirement agencies may also have access to the account.  

Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road creator, is currently carrying out two life punishments in prison after being found guilty of computer hacking, money laundering, and conspiracy to traffic opiates.

Bitcoin in 2015 seized from an alternate wallet related with Silk Road was sold at closeout by the US government. Co-founder of Blockchain analysts Elliptic, Dr Tom Robinson detailed the findings and said the account since 2015 had been dormant. He said that Blockchain analytics shows that these funds began from a wallet connected to the Silk Road in 2012.

 

Moving funds

In a post on Elliptic's site, Dr Robinson wrote that these bitcoins' movements might speak to Ulbricht or a Silk Road seller moving their funds. However, it appears to be far-fetched that Ulbricht would have the option to direct a Bitcoin transaction from prison.

In a report of Blockchain analysts, Ciphertrace said that there is some theory that hackers might have broken the wallet. These movements might imply that the wallet owner is moving assets to new addresses to prevent hackers from getting to the wallet.dat record, or that hackers have just cracked the document.

Bitcoin costs have been increasing to their most elevated levels since January 2018, selling above $13,000 (£10,044) since Friday.

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