“Somewhere in the $164 million worth of bitcoins held by the U.S. government, there’s a chunk of the cryptocurrency that until very recently belonged to Peter Ward, a British self-described ‘cybertechnohippy’ and dealer in drug paraphernalia like bongs, marijuana seeds, and rolling papers. On Thursday, Ward began the process of retaining a lawyer to file a claim for what he says were 100 bitcoins seized by the FBI in the takedown of the Silk Road online black market for drugs last October. Ward says he earned his bitcoins through entirely legal means, offering the same merchandise that he advertises on the public Internet from his head shop Planet Pluto in Devon, England.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/01/31/silk-road-vendor-filing-claim-for-seized-bitcoins-argues-he-sold-only-legal-items/

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