re: Ross Ulbricht turns 40 today

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Especially the part where they found his missing 50,000 bitcoin a few years ago, paid off his $180 million fine and pocketed the other ~$4 billion.

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That's crazy and frightening.

The DOJ seizes cars, boats and other property from drug dealers and organized criminals all the time but you gotta think on an individual basis that's fairly small potatoes with a lot of legal and bureaucratic hoops.

This guy, despite all of the Libertarian philosophy stuff and backdoor internet website management, actually made the investment of a lifetime without realizing it by latching onto Bitcoin at the ground floor.

And the Feds just swoop in and grab $4 Billion to do God knows what with.