“The federal government has actually not been harm by Jimmy’s conduct in anyway,” Zhong’s lawyer Michael Bachner instructed CNBC. He famous that if the federal government had gotten its palms on these 50,000 bitcoins on the time of Silk Highway operator Ross Ulbricht’s arrest, it might have offered them for about $320 per coin, or roughly $14 million. “Because of Jimmy having them, the federal government has gotten a $3 billion revenue,” Bachner mentioned.
