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The police in Saxony, eastern Germany, have seized 50,000 Bitcoin from the former operator of the pirate site movie2k.to through a voluntary deposit to a state-controlled wallet.

This is a record figure for the country's law enforcement authorities, corresponding to over $2.1 billion at today's Bitcoin-USD exchange rate.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"we our very proud of our seizure of 40,000 Bitcoins!" Say the Chief of Police, who incidentally recently entered into unrelated windfalls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

" there seems to be some confusion! Only 30,000 bitcoins were recovered!" Said the mayor, pictured in front of his newly purchased mansion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I have, like, three of em?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

With 3 bitcoin I could get myself a pretty nice car.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm guessing it reduced their sentence by quite a lot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's worth over 2 billion euros. What is then done with this? Will the government try to convert it to euros?