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This Guy Wants To Buy All The Silk Road Bitcoins Seized By The FBI
• Business InsiderStapper has reached out to the US government on behalf of Falcon Global Capital with an offer to buy the Bitcoins. One estimate pegs the FBI as owning between 5% and 10% of all Bitcoins out there.
Stapper told Business Insider that "[the FBI has] not given us a yes or no yet. However, our lawyers are making calls daily to follow up on this. We have secured backing from a group of private investors to purchase all 27,000 Bitcoins for 15% below the daily value." (The FBI might be tempted by a below-market-value offer in return for the convenience of offloading them all at once.)