{"id":27367,"date":"2020-08-17T19:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27367"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:22:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T17:22:57","slug":"in-germany-e25-million-in-bitcoins-seized-from-video-piracy-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/in-germany-e25-million-in-bitcoins-seized-from-video-piracy-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"In Germany, \u20ac25 million in bitcoins seized from video-piracy operators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German police seized bitcoins worth \u20ac25 million. The funds were linked to the operation of an illegal streaming site, according to CryptoDaily.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The operation was made possible by an investigation conducted by the [simple_tooltip content=&#8217;Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;]\u0424\u0411\u0420[\/simple_tooltip] in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The two main operators of the site are accused of creating and operating an illegal streaming service. Police say they distributed nearly 900,000 pirated copies of films.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects used advertising revenue on the site and subscription income to buy cryptocurrency since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Chainalysis <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-identifies-nearly-900000-illicit-bitcoins\">identified<\/a> nearly 900,000 bitcoins linked to illicit activity.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German police seized bitcoins worth \u20ac25 million. The funds were linked to the operation of an illegal streaming site, according to CryptoDaily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"German police seized \u20ac25 million in bitcoins linked to an illegal streaming site.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1153,109,1444],"class_list":["post-27367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-confiscation","tag-germany","tag-law-enforcement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"German police seized \u20ac25 million in bitcoins linked to an illegal streaming site.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27369,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27367\/revisions\/27369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}