Famous Bitcoin addresses · Governments and seizures
The 2020 Silk Road forfeiture address
bc1qa5wkgaew2dkv56kfvj49j0av5nml45x9ek9hz6On 3 November 2020 about 69,370 BTC moved to this address from 1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx, the address the US Department of Justice named two days later in a civil forfeiture complaint. The complaint says the coins had been taken from Silk Road in 2012 and were surrendered by a person it calls Individual X. The balance has not moved since.
Balance
₿ 69,370.18461850$5,678,088,351 · price as of 14 Oct 2026
- Txs
- 189
- Utxos
- 189
- Since
- 3 Nov 2020
- Last seen
- 14 Sep 2026
- Type
- Native SegWit Bech32
- Updated
- 14 Oct 2026
Value over time
Label · with receipt
US Government Government
Source: Declaration of an IRS-CI special agent, 13 July 2021 (United States v. Approximately 69,370 Bitcoin, N.D. Cal. 3:20-cv-07811), reproduced at App-31 (PDF 34) of the Battle Born Supreme Court appendix, No. 23-1164 · evidence tier verified · a documented historical seizure association · source checked 14 Oct 2026.
Receipt: sha256:193307e17747…8 of 9 components checked, 14 Oct 2026
Other public sources say: US Government, Silk Road seizure (our curated list of well-known addresses, high, inference); US Government, Silk Road seizure (CoinDesk / Arkham Intelligence, high, inference); FBI (a public address label dataset on GitHub, medium, inference).
The captured sources disagree about this address. The reviewed public source is shown above.
Chain notes
- Unspent outputs Attention
189 unspent outputs. This address holds many separate coins. Spending them together can cost more in fees than spending fewer, larger coins. What an unspent output is
- Small outputs Good
No output costs more to spend than it holds at typical fees. What dust is
- Address reuse Info
Seen in 189 transactions. Repeated use of one address is publicly linkable. What address reuse means
- Address type Good
Native SegWit (Bech32). Relative fees depend on transaction structure. What the address types mean
- Unspent output distribution Info
99% of the balance sits in one output. A partial spend of it creates a change output visible on the chain. What a change output is
- Activity Good
Last transaction 30 days ago. What dormant, quiet and pending mean
The notes describe what the chain shows; they do not rate the address. Chain notes, explained.
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