https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dad-helped-put-criminal-behind-32070414
Well, I learned 2 things here that I didn't previously know. Firstly, the operator of Silk Road 2.0 was named Thomas White, who lived in Liverpool and secondly, the copper who nicked him has just been locked up for pinching 50 bitcoins off him๐ณ๐๐ฅณ.
#UK #Bitcoin.
Also going to include a Canadian and American pleb as they may be interested too๐.
Fucking cops ๐
โPaul Chowles, who formed part of the NCA team which brought the dropout Liverpool John Moores University student down, seized on the opportunity to steal 50 Bitcoin from the man who he had been tasked with investigating. This stolen cryptocurrency was worth around ยฃ60,000 at the time of the theft, but its worth has since ballooned to more than ยฃ4million.โ
#cops
They don't usually prosecute themselves!
This is true. It always makes me laugh when the police refer themselves to the IPCC, which is just......Another, different police force๐๐.
They registered themselves as (for profit) corporations too. The UK could be one of the first countries to fall.
Fancy getting caught
You'd have thought, given what he did for a living, he'd have been a bit more smart. Having said that, it was only when the other lad was subject to a POCA hearing that he said hang the fuck on, some of my coins are missing๐ณ๐.
