It appears, once again, that the Dark Web and bitcoin aren’t untraceable.Just in case there was any doubt.A new court case has shown this after it was revealed in documents that two men allegedly stole 5,400 bitcoin from an underground illegal online drug site called Sheep Marketplace.That was when bitcoin’s price was above $1,100, and so, the bitcoin was worth a lot more at the time — $6.6 million, to be precise.Now, the government has seized $4.5 billion from two Florida men who were allegedly involved in the case.This money was reportedly given over in 2014, but the documents were sealed while an investigation was going on.This theft, which occurred in 2013, caused the Sheep Marketplace (a Silk Road wannabe that opened after that marketplace shut down) to close down.The two men in question are Nathan Gibson and Sean Mackert, both from Florida.They are both now 24 but were 21 at the time of the crime they are accused of being part of.“There was nothing where [Gibson and Mackert] were injecting code.

There was no hacking.This was just a poorly created website that was just exploited by very young kids who immediately accepted responsibility for their actions,” said Jeffrey Lichtman, Gibson and Mackert’s attorney in the case, told Forbes.But following those remarks, he did assert: “They’re responsible for exactly what’s contained within that document.” He continues to deny that his clients were drug dealers or buying drugs from the site but did admit that they were involved in the bitcoin theft.“These are not sophisticated criminals.These were not people who were well-versed in terms of criminality.They were curious kids who exploited a poorly made website,” he said in the interview.By following the bitcoin trail through bank accounts that the money was reportedly deposited in, authorities were reportedly able to track down the stolen bitcoin.Gibson also reportedly tried to make a $243,000 bitcoin transfer into a bank account, but the bank flagged the transaction.Mackert also reportedly tried to transfer $251,000 to an account.

The rest of the money was reportedly dispersed across various banks, their homes and various bitcoin exchanges.exoclick bitcoinFor now, the accused criminals are in discussions with the government, but there are not court hearings scheduled at the moment.bitcoin rate today in indiaAccording to Forbes, The U.S.bitcoin esquiregovernment has seized $4.5 million from two Florida men who allegedly stole 5,400 bitcoins from illegal online drug sales site Sheep Marketplace in late 2013, shortly before the price of bitcoin hit its peak of around $1,200, according to forfeiture documents filed last week in Jacksonville, Florida.bitcoin font

The money was forfeited back in the spring of 2014, along with a 2012 Toyota Camry and a 2008 Honda motorcycle, by Nathan Gibson and Sean Mackert, who are both 24, but were 21 at the time of the heist.bitcoin gadget windows 8This is the civil forfeiture complaint of one of them, Sean Mackert detailing how they got caught when their ID where linked to their IP’s, Coinbase & Bank accounts : For those of you who don’t remember, Sheep marketplace, was an anonymous marketplace set up as a Tor hidden service.bitcoin flopIt launched in March 2013 and was one of the lesser known sites to gain popularity with the well publicized closure of the Silk Road marketplace later that year.It ceased operation in December 2013, when it announced it was shutting down after a vendor stole $6 million worth of users’ bitcoins.Following that alleged hack, the site owner then proceeded to disable all bitcoin withdrawals from the site by telling some lie about a bitcoin mixer implementation which went wrong, and disabling all forum posting: The owner even went as far implementing a fake counter telling the users they must deposit at least 1BTC to be able to withdraw one the counter hit “0” Shortly after that, the site was taken down completely along with all the remaining bitcoin, the site owner identity was later revealed as a Czech guy named Tomas, Who got arrested last year while trying to launder some of the stolen funds after he bought a luxury house.

So yeah, well at least now we know who Ebook101 was, but this was still the first major exit scam.One of the oldest, largest thefts in Bitcoin history, the robbery of early Darknet Market (DNM) Sheep Marketplace, may have finally reached its conclusion.Folks newer to Bitcoin may not remember the scandal, which led to the closure of the popular bazaar of mostly illegal drugs, which was later found to be run out of the Czech Republic, as thCCN reported in March of last year.At that time, the best theory was that the owner himself with the help of his significant other had robbed the site’s hot wallet himself.However, it now appears that Thomas Jiřikovský may have been telling the truth the whole time and that security researcher Gwern Branwen’s findings may have been incomplete.While it is certain that Jiřikovský purchased a home in the Czech Republic with proceeds from the market, and that the home was later seized by Czech authorities who also charged him with money laundering, it is now evident, given recent details made public by the US Federal Government, that, in fact, two men in Florida were actually responsible for the major theft which led to the market becoming insolvent.

The men were just 21 at the time and their names are Nathan Gibson and Sean Mackert.Sheep Marketplace was launched in response to the closing of the Silk Road, the largest and most high-profile Darknet Market in history, which led to numerous arrests including two federal officers who were found to be corrupt, having extorted and stolen funds from the market.Sheep Marketplace was rushed to production, and this could account for Gibson and Mackert’s lawyer claiming that the pair never had to hack the website.The original message given to Sheep Marketplace users similarly confirms this narrative, having said: We are sorry to say, but we were robbed on November 21, 2013 by vendor EBOOK101.This vendor found bug [sic] in our system and stole 5400 BTC – your money, our provisions, all was stolen.Federal documents detail how government agents were able to use block chain information to track down where the bitcoins eventually wound up, and how, using information subpoenaed from Coinbase, they were able to find bank records, including how the pair’s funds were denied at various banks over time for being suspicious.