Silk Road Bitcoin Auction Complete: Four Bidders Take Home $14.3 Million In Digital Currency

The U.S. federal government announced Thursday it's finished auctioning off the massive haul of bitcoin seized from the Silk Road. Authorities shut down the online drug marketplace, which also sold hacking tools and fake identification, in 2013 taking with it a trove of 144,000 bitcoins currently worth $47 million but much more at the time.