The original Silk Road marketplace has been shut down for well over seven years now and to this day, 444,000 bitcoin worth $4.8 billion is still missing. Just recently, a report focused on those funds discusses one of the market’s biggest mysteries and how people have seemingly forgotten about this massive stash.
A number of people understand that the Silk Road marketplace was shut down by global law enforcement (LE) in October 2013 and LE subsequently arrested Ross Ulbricht shortly after. Individuals are also familiar with the 173,991 BTC ($1.9B) from the Silk Road coins that were seized and later auctioned by the U.S. Marshalls.
However, the public is not wholly aware of the estimated 444,000 BTC ($4.8B) missing from the Silk Road and a recent study from mysteryarchive.com discusses the lost coins at length.
“What many people don’t know about the Silk Road story, is that the balance sheet does not add up, and everybody just seems to be okay with this fact,” the mysteryarchive.com report notes. The author further adds:
Generally speaking, you don’t close a case with $4.8B just unaccounted for and this remains the Silk Road’s greatest mystery as nobody can answer this simple question.
The findings discuss how the U.S. federal agents managed to seize the 173k BTC and that it’s quite possible the rest of the funds were stored on another computer. 144k BTC out of the seized stash was found on Ulbricht’s laptop, which gave LE full access to the “Mastermind” dashboard and a list of SR payroll expenses from 2011 to 2013.
Mysteryarchive.com stresses that “another computer seems likely, as it is
