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On this day in 2013, the FBI shut down Silk Road and arrested founder Ross Ulbricht in a San Francisco library.
The government seized 144,000 BTC — worth around $28 million at the time. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison before receiving a presidential pardon in 2025.
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