A stolen sum of around £3billion in Bitcoin has been discovered in a property a decade after it was stolen on the dark web.
Police finally solved one of the biggest Bitcoin busts of all time when they uncovered the stash in the home of James Zhong, 32, who had been hiding the cryptocurrency on computer devices, including one stored within a popcorn tin.
Zhong, from Georgia, US, pleaded guilty on Friday to committing wire fraud in 2012 after he hacked over 50,000 Bitcoin, which totalled to £2.9billion from dark web marketplace, Silk Road, the Mirror reports.
The hacker now faces a 20-year prison sentence after police found the hidden devices in Zhong's room in a safe under the floorboards and on a single board computer that was tucked away under blankets in a popcorn tin in his bathroom.
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