Ex-NCA Officer Ordered to Repay $2.4M for 50 BTC Stolen in Silk Road 2.0 Seizure

This case is less about the bitcoin than about the reach of asset-tracing into the law-enforcement chain itself: the same seizure infrastructure built to hold criminal proceeds became the point of loss. The restitution figure tracks the asset's appreciation rather than the original take, a reminder that in crypto cases the penalty scales with the market, not the moment of theft. Who bears that gap — and whether courts keep pricing misconduct at current value — is the question worth watching.