lol man you know exactly where the Silk Road BTC is
It's a fun thing to say but obviously facilitating black markets is still illegal by definition of black market
Of course I have to admit that I am 100% on your side here and have stated a half a dozen times that ill-gotten crime money does not belong to the government to dump on the heads of these communities. The only appropriate action is to send it to @null... like imagine if they were also selling the drugs they confiscated back into the black market... oh wait they totally do that.
I guess you missed my op. The reserve is going to hold confiscated cryptos. Like the ones you just mentioned. Yes, after a period of time, they will get dropped into the communities. For now, I don't think the government is into legitimizing any coin without the regulatory means put into place first. They're looking for billions, like 500 billion to put into Stargate. They'll get that sum any which way they can, including from people not following whatever regulations they come up with. With crypto's it's a lot like all the other things they've got planned but the moment isn't ripe enough yet, they'll keep building upon it under the sly until they are convinced they can reasonable get adoption accepted by the multitudes of their planned agendas without much of a fight.
That sounds... accurate.
The thing is, because he was fully pardoned, Ulbricht didn't commit any crime. His BTC, then, isn't subject to seizure, and he should get every satoshi back. Hell, they should pay interest on it. LOL
But, yeah, they're gonna keep it.
I mean I'd love to see him sue the DoJ for it that would be hilarious.
Hell there may be lawyers hitting him up just for the opportunity.