On-chain record · medium source confidence
US FBI — Silk Road / Ulbricht Seizure (2013)
After the October 2013 takedown of Silk Road, US law enforcement moved coins from the marketplace and from Ross Ulbricht's seized hardware into a single publicly known consolidation address, in a long series of transfers reported at the time. Contemporary coverage noted the transfers were sent in chunks of 324 BTC, a number that spells "FBI" on a phone keypad. On-chain the address has received roughly 144,343 BTC in total across more than a thousand outputs and has since been almost entirely spent. The coins were subsequently disposed of through US Marshals Service auctions in 2014 and 2015.
- First seen
- October 2013
- Connected
- October 2013
- Route display ID
4°-750F-94CEDisplay identifier only — not proof of ownership.
2 additional population comparisons
Evidence boundary
What is — and is not — established
The address was never published by the FBI in a court filing or press release that could be retrieved here; it was identified contemporaneously by journalists and blockchain observers in October 2013 and has been universally treated as the FBI seizure address since. It is corroborated by an on-chain total (~144,343 BTC funded) that matches the ~144,336 BTC the government said it seized from Ulbricht. The USMS auction payout addresses are deliberately left null — no fetched source listed them.
The dossier
Evidence record
Address record
- Role
- FBI consolidation address for coins seized from Silk Road and from Ross Ulbricht's hardware, October 2013; later drained through US Marshals auctions
- Script
- P2PKH
- Category
- Public custody
- Source confidence
- medium
- Catalog reviewed
- 2026-08-06