The US government is selling at auction 29 thousand Bitcoin seized from 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 in excess of 29 thousand units of cryptocurrency. At the current rate is about 18 million US dollars.

As indicated in the title, this entire amount is withdrawn during the liquidation of Silk Road. Then the news wrote that the US authorities are going to destroy the Bitcoins, however, it was decided to sell them at auction.
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The auction itself will be held a little later this month, and buying everything at once will not be necessary. The lot will be divided into 10 parts, each of which will be sold separately (approximately $ 1.8 million). Actually, any auction participant will be able to buy any number of lots, at least all at once, if he makes the maximum bid. In other words, there are no limitations on the number of lots "in one hand".

Another interesting fact is that the bitcoins withdrawn from Ross Ulbricht have not yet been put up for auction, but remain on the balance sheet of the government. Selling deals with US Marshals Service .