seized roughly $25000.00 big queen from silk road during the arrest of the alleged owner ross obrecht then in november 19th 2013 the big question price soared over a $1000.00 big question price surges to a record $1242.00 after senate hearing so it was the senate suddenly looking about what is this bit coin thing is this the money of terrorists if this money of drug dealers and mafia and all sorts of stuff so them paying attention to it meant that it had mass mainstream coverage from c.n.n. m s n b c c n.b.c. bloomberg everybody was covering and looking at what is big the price absolutely sort of hit 1242 colonel like in star wars one remember that a perfect vector down the corridor and hit the target perfectly and the star exploded that's like a set of hearings you know those like the was on a collision course with the senate in that hearing it all happened and you could just tell when that was testimony was delivered that this was now the beginning of the destruction of the death star all the banks or the regulators all the corruption all those ballons all that money this was now of