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Market · June 27, 2014

Tim Draper wins the US Marshals Silk Road Bitcoin auction

Price at event
$602
Today
$73,594
Since then
×122

Venture capitalist Tim Draper wins all 29,656 BTC seized from Silk Road in the first US Marshals auction — an early, visible bet by Silicon Valley on Bitcoin's future.

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