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Silk Road Bitcoin Thief, Once Worth $3.4 Billion, Receives One-Year Prison Sentence

A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace in 2012 has been sentenced to a year in prison. In a Friday press release, the US Justice Department said James Zhong has been sentenced to...

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Silk Road Bitcoin Thief, Once Worth $3.4 Billion, Receives One-Year Prison Sentence
A Georgia man who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace in 2012 has been sentenced to a year in prison.
In a Friday press release, the US Justice Department said James Zhong has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for charges related to executing a scheme to steal more than 51,680 Bitcoin from the Silk Road drug-trafficking site. ...
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