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A Federal Agent’s Laptop Held the Keys to Seize $3.6 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin. Here’s How It Ended Up at the Smithsonian
6 mn readA MacBook Pro laptop is the newest acquisition in the Smithsonian’s National Numismatic Collection, the collection of record for the United States monetary system. Though it may appear ordinary, its story is not: This MacBook helped the U.S. government trace and seize billions of dollars in stolen cryptocurrency. The laptop and the case around it […]
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