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#1120 Chris Tarbell | Former FBI Agent On Early Bitcoin & Silk Road Takedown

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The FBI Thinks Bitcoin Equals Illegal Activity

Bitcoin is a small component of Bitcoin so I'll tell you a story that kind of tells you what the FBI at least my respect of what the FBI thought of crypto at the time okay. So we arrest Ross we find on the Silk Road server and his server together it's 177,000 bitcoins a pretty good chunk even at that time was about two hundred million dollars yep. Anything valuable goes up onto a special safe in the New York FBI that only opens on Tuesday mornings unless it's something valuable they'll open it up to put it in.

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