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Feds seized $2.9M in Bitcoin funds from Mt. Gox, court docs show

• gigaom.com
 

The federal government sent a strong signal to Bitcoin traders earlier this year when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security seized an account belonging to Mt. Gox, the most popular exchange for people to buy and sell the crypto-currency. It was unclear at the time just how much currency the government confiscated.

But a new filing in Baltimore federal court (embedded below) shows the feds seized $2,915,507.40 held in an account controlled by Dwolla, a third-party payment platform similar to PayPal. The funds belonged to Mutum Sigillum LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Tokyo-based Mt. Gox.

It’s unclear what will become of the funds. Neither the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland nor Mt. Gox immediately returned a request for comment.


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