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Donald Trump made his leading supporter-crypto statements during the 2024 Nashville Crypto conference. He did not say, “Our government has violated the cardinal rule for a very long time that knows the bitkinar heartily: the slogan sold your bittone.” He re -prepared it while signing a strategic bitcoin reserve law. In the past, the US government song for at least 195,091.75 BTC $ 366,493,104. Now these bitcoins are $ 22.2 billion which is somewhere between the country’s reservation 29,000 and 200,000 bitcoins.
Summary
- America is a country to sell bitcoin from 195,000 to 199,000 units between 2014 and 2023.
- These sales benefited by about 21 billion dollars
- While it was widely believed that the US has 200,000 bitcoins, official data confirms only 29,000. The rest of the bitcoins were seized from thieves and fraudsters and the victims may retire.
US bitcoin sales 2014 – 2023
Till 2013, the US had no bitcoins. The drug enforcement administration received 11 bitcoins to the fight with the Silk Road Marketplace. As the operation was finalized, the amount of US bitcoin holdings increased significantly, although bitcoins associated with Silk Road were stolen.
In 2014, the US government began selling bitcoins seized through auction. In June, the US sold 29,657 bitcoins received from Silk Road to venture investor Tim Draper. He paid $ 19 million. By August. 5, 2025, these bitcoins cost more than $ 3 billion.
Between December 2014 and November 2015, the US sold 144,341 bitcoins seized from Silk Road at the press time at the press time, the cost of these bitcoins was around $ 16.6 billion.
Given the following auction, the US sold small amounts of bitcoin. Thanks to the long -term price of bitcoin, the US was receiving a lot of returns in the USD, selling very small amounts of bitcoin. For example, in August 2016, the government sold 2,719 BTCs from several sources, including Silk Road Drug Dealer Matthew Gillum in $ 1,600,000.
In March 2018, the US received $ 42,000,000 to sell 3,813 bitcoins, which were confiscated from diverse criminals. Later, US Marshal gets rid of 2,170 bitcoins, which is mostly derived from Sean Bries, a secret service agent, which stole bitcoins during a silk road test. The bidder paid $ 18.7 million.
The last time USver sold bitcoins publicly, when the government sold 9,861 bitcoins received from James Zong, who stole him from the Silk Road Marketplace. The government received $ 215,000,000 (or if we use the modern-day bitcoin value, about $ 900 million is lost). After this sale, many transactions for the coinbase weaved around 36,000 bitcoins, but no sales were reported. Probably, transactions were made to replace Custodians.
How much did BTC sell to America? Did a country sell more?
Reports on how much the US has sold to BTC is different. Some are named about 195,000 BTC amount, other people have that amount of that amount around 199,000 BTC. This means that at $ 114,000 per bitcoin, the US sold $ 22.2 billion and $ 22.6 billion bitcoins, which in turn increased from $ 366.5 million to $ 422.2 million. Leaving $ 21 billion, missed.
In 2024, Germany sold 54,000 BTCs at a price of about $ 57,900, not long before the BTC price was doubled. It turns out, Germany Year $ 3 Billion – Snowhar missed near America’s amount.
In 2021, Finland sold 1,900 BTC from drug crime. The government took advantage of about $ 47 million. Most of this money were prescribed for donations to Ukraine.
With 10,000 BTC on its balance sheet, Bhutan is considering one of the top BTC holders. However, the government is selling bitcoins on the occasion. However, these sales are smaller than the US or Germany.
While we do not know all the cases of counties selling bitcoin, hardly any jurisdiction is good as America
How much is America now?
Many US governments use the data of intelligence to evaluate the cryptocurrency holdings of the government. This Varoy analyzes and arrange blockchain data to showcase the crypto holdings of large institutions. The act for Arkham, the US now 198,022 BTC (more than $ 22 billion as August 5, 2025), around 60,000 ETHs (more than $ 210 million as August 5, as as 2025), and many other cryptocurrencies are an assessment amount for several Hunted Million with Cryptocurrency.
However, it is important to differentiate between “ownership” and “holding”. The government does not belong to all the crypto assets that help America. Forded property is government property, while seed property is nED by America
For example, 667.624 bitcoins seized from founders of the fraud operation Hashflair in 2022 are not conducted by the American martial service. The same bitfinex hacker Ilya goes for 94,000 bitcoins seized from Lictinstein. These seized assets may eventually enter the pockets of the victims of Hashflair fraud and hack bitfinex. The Department of Justice has already recommended Bitfinex retiring bitcoin in the theft in hack.
For the data obtained by Lola latez in July 2025, the US Marshal holds around 29,000 bitcoins, which is much less than the amount displayed on the Arkham website. This does not mean the rest of the bitcoin (several times repeated allegations were repeated, including Sen. Synthia Lumis). Instead, this means that the position and future of about 170,000 bitcoins and future is not clear, and it is also earim to claim that America is actually their owner; It is better to say that the government keeps them for now.
EMCD’s Chief Business Development Officer Uzeni Kitkin clarified that “seed bitcoins, on the other hand, are temporarily Ned – are waiting for courts or legal resolutions. The government’s assets, and many can never occur.”
Mexc Research, Chief analysts in Sean Young say people need to understand
“For now, corporate accumulations such as microstrates remain primary reserves of institutional BTC. Treated with legal and institutional structure.
