[/ATTACH][BR] The US announced on Tuesday that it has recovered more than 94,000 bitcoins stolen in 2016 on digital trading platform Bitfinex and currently valued at $3.6 billion, a record amount for a judicial seizure.
A couple suspected of seeking to "launder" the stolen bitcoin "through a cryptocurrency trading maze" was arrested this morning in New York City, the Justice Department said in a press release.
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