Ilya Lichtenstein

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Event March 6, 2025 Added July 28, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 Article

Executive Order 14233 creates the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve out of a decade of forfeitures

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Donald Trump, Ross Ulbricht, Ilya Lichtenstein, Heather Morgan, Chen Zhi

On March 6, 2025, Executive Order 14233 turned a decade of forfeited Bitcoin, from Silk Road to the Bitfinex hack, into a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve; the Prince Group case followed in October.

Event February 8, 2022 Added June 1, 2026 Updated October 10, 2026 Article

The 2016 Bitfinex hack and the 2022 Razzlekhan arrest — 119,756 BTC stolen, $3.6B recovered, six years of laundering

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Heather Morgan, Ilya Lichtenstein

119,756 BTC stolen from Bitfinex (Aug 2016). DOJ arrested Lichtenstein and Morgan in Feb 2022 and recovered ~94,000 BTC — the largest US financial seizure at the time.