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Silk Road Bitcoin Stash To Be Auctioned!
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/01/17/feds-to-sell-28-million-in-seized-bitcoins/"The U.S. government announced plans to sell a whopping $28 million worth of bitcoins, the volatile digital currency thats taking the Internet by storm.
Bitcoins are a form of currency, like the U.S. dollar, the British pound or the Indian Rupee. But Bitcoins arent tied to any country or even to physical paper or coins at all. Instead, computers mint them according to complex algorithms, adding a new coin to a database at a slow but steady rate.