How's this for a perfect metaphor for today's crypto market? A Lambo is seized.

Good evening. I'm Mark Hoxton, and this is late confirmation from CoinDes, bringing you the top

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seizing the assets and property of Alexander Kazas, the Canadian who was allegedly behind

the dark net market Alpha Bay.

Kazas commuted suicide by hanging himself in a Thai prison last summer, following his arrest.

Alpha Bay was ten times bigger than Silk Road, an earlier darknet marketplace for drugs and other

illegal goods. The website was launched in September 2014 and boasted over

400,000 lifetime users and $800,000 worth of daily transactions. One of those listings, famously,

was user account data stolen from the ride-sharing app Uber and British telecom giant Talk Talk in 2015. Via commissions on

Alpha Bay transactions, the 26-year-old Kazas managed to accumulate more than $8.8 million in

cryptocurrencies, including about 1,600 Bitcoin, 8,300 ether, 3,700 Zcash, and an unknown amount of Manero.

The wallets were linked to bank accounts belonging to Kazas and his wife in Thailand,

Switzerland, and the Caribbean.

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