- cross-posted to:
- cryptocurrency@lemmit.online
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- cryptocurrency@lemmit.online
The secret life of Jimmy Zhong, who stole – and lost – more than $3 billion::CNBC obtained never-before-seen body camera footage that shows how investigators linked Jimmy Zhong to the Silk Road hack
Can someone summarise the story. God damn that was a long read and lost interest. What I gathered, Jimmy claimed a robbery of his bitcoins, who then transpired to be the robber?
He stole lots of Bitcoin by hacking silk road. One day someone stole a part of them (20 out of 50000) and he called the police which basically said though luck.
Meanwhile the us government was investigating on the theft and they noticed that he accidentally converted $800 from the stolen $3 billions using his real name.
They showed up at his home really friendly saying they’re investigating about the Bitcoin theft and he opened everything. Unlocked his PC, showed them all the stash, then the liutenant specified which Bitcoin theft was investigating. Officers immediately placed a jigger on the unlocked PC to prevent automatic inactivity lock, guy was arrested.
Unfortunately the guy was one of the og Bitcoin devs in 2009 so he is filthy rich, got one year of prison for the crime of stealing those 3 billion dollars.
The us government said that anyone can ask back the stolen Bitcoin but nobody applied because those were dirty funds coming from the sales of drugs
An odd part of this story is that he hired a PI to figure out who stole Bitcoin from him. The PI figured out who it likely was and told Jimmy, he refused to believe it because he was friends with the thief.
He just wanted to feel loved and have friends but they were all only there for the money and stuff he bought for them.
Thank you 👍
You want someone to read the article for you and spoon-fed you the salient points?
Sure, I’ll get right on it.
I was hoping that people would actually read the article before commenting over here, but that’s asking too much 😂
Won’t help but will waste his time on snarky comments, I can tell you enjoy your life 🤣
On the contrary, being snarky isn’t a waste of time at all
petty enough to enjoy it huh, you do you
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Ever heard of a typo? You have a couple of errors in your post too. I’m not going to point them out for you though.