The U.S. Marshals father announced a plan to auction off nearly $4.3 million worth of bitcoin next month.
The superintendence agency said in an announcement on Wednesday that the sealed bid auction is for round 660 bitcoin that were forfeited in federal criminal, well-mannered and administrative cases.
Scheduled to start on Nov. 5, the auction requires would-be bidders to alluvium $200,000 after registering their identification with the agency no later than Oct .31.
Based on the commercial, the auction consists of two parts with six blocks of 100 bitcoin each and one outstanding block with 60 bitcoin. Bidders will not be able to considering other bids or change their bid once submitted, the U.S. Marshals united.
The agency indicated some of the assets in the auction include bitcoin forfeited in a sprinkling recent cases such as the U.S government’s lawsuits against bitcoin retailers Theresa Tetley and Thomas Mario Costanzo – both sentenced to jail on concerns of bitcoin money laundering.
While the U.S. Marshals did not reveal how much of the damaged assets from the two convicts above it plans to sell, previous reports distinguished that the U.S. government seized at least 120 bitcoin from the two, with 40 from Tetley, and 80 from Costanzo.
The sketched auction comes just months after the U.S. Marshals sold past 2,100 bitcoin and 3,600 bitcoin in March and January, respectively, an amount uttering to more than $50 million at the time.
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