美国政府获准出售 69,000 枚没收的比特币后，比特币价格跌破 100,000 美元

美国联邦地区法院的裁决由在线杂志《Decrypt》公开。报告称，这笔钱来自已停用的非法在线交易平台“丝绸之路”。

The US government is set to sell more than 69,000 confiscated Bitcoin, an event that could have a major impact on the cryptocurrency’s price.

美国政府将出售超过 69,000 枚没收的比特币，这一事件可能会对加密货币的价格产生重大影响。

The decision by a US federal district court was made public by the online magazine Decrypt. According to the report, the money came from the decommissioned, illegal online trading platform Silk Road. The US government could thus collect more than 6 billion US dollars; on Wednesday, as much as 7 billion would have been possible. However, the decision does not yet mean that the sale can begin. Administrative steps are necessary and there is also a time window for appeals to a court, the magazine writes.

美国联邦地区法院的裁决由在线杂志《Decrypt》公开。据报道，这笔钱来自已退役的非法在线交易平台“丝绸之路”。美国政府因此可以筹集超过60亿美元；周三，这一数字可能高达 70 亿。然而，这一决定并不意味着销售可以开始。该杂志写道，行政措施是必要的，向法院上诉也有一个时间窗口。

Silk Road was a darknet marketplace that operated from around 2011 to 2013. Criminal transactions of all kinds were conducted via the platform. It was used by drug traffickers and other illegal sellers to trade in drugs, credit card data and Trojans, among other things. In 2015, the founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, who is said to have been active under the nickname “Dread Pirate Roberts”, was unanimously sentenced to two life sentences by a jury. The US government has already auctioned off a large proportion of the more than 144,000 Bitcoin confiscated from him. Only later were the 69,370 Bitcoin now at issue confiscated from an anonymous person.

Silk Road 是一个暗网市场，于 2011 年至 2013 年左右运营。各种犯罪交易都是通过该平台进行的。它被毒贩和其他非法卖家用来交易毒品、信用卡数据和木马等。 2015年，丝绸之路创始人罗斯·乌布利希（Ross Ulbricht）被陪审团一致判处两项无期徒刑。美国政府已经拍卖了从他身上没收的超过 144,000 枚比特币中的很大一部分。直到后来，现在有争议的 69,370 比特币才从一位匿名人士手中被没收。

Confiscated Bitcoin is sold time and again, and the Federal Republic of Germany also has experience of this. But because of the massive rise in the price of the cryptocurrency and because it is the largest such tranche, the US government could realize a record sum that exceeds all previous revenues many times over. According to Yahoo News, market observers believe it is possible that the sale will have an impact on the price of Bitcoin, but so far, such sales have been split into several steps. On the other hand, the next US President, Donald Trump promised during the election campaign that he would stop the practice of selling. It is therefore still unclear whether the almost 70,000 Bitcoin will actually come onto the market.

没收的比特币屡次被出售，德意志联邦共和国也有这方面的经验。但由于加密货币价格大幅上涨，而且它是同类中最大的一笔，美国政府可能会实现创纪录的金额，超过之前所有收入的许多倍。据雅虎新闻报道，市场观察人士认为，此次出售可能会对比特币的价格产生影响，但到目前为止，此类出售已分为几个步骤。另一方面，下一任美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在竞选期间承诺，他将停止销售行为。因此，目前还不清楚这近 70,000 个比特币是否真的会进入市场。