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Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

RARE PHOTOS: Missing stolen bitcoin worth 3billion discovered stashed away in popcorn box - The Real Truth

A huge stash of nearly £3billion in Bitcoin stolen a decade ago from the dark web has been uncovered, with some of it stored in a popcorn tin.

In what is one of the biggest Bitcoin busts of all time, police found the stash hidden in the home of 32-year-old James Zhong, who had stored the cryptocurrency on computer devices.

Zhong, who lives in Georgia, in the United States, pleaded guilty on Friday to committing wire fraud in 2012.

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