In line with knowledge offered by Arkham Intelligence, the U.S. authorities has moved $8 million value of Bitcoin.
The overwhelming majority of the aforementioned sum has been despatched to a change pockets.
The worth of the main cryptocurrency is at present sitting at $87,326, in keeping with CoinGecko knowledge.
The U.S. authorities has additionally moved $1.77 million value of Ethereum (ETH) to a brand new deal with.
Earlier this month, an deal with related to the U.S. authorities moved some Avalanche (AVAX) tokens.
In line with court docket paperwork, the final main Bitcoin sale performed by the U.S. authorities occurred in March 2023. Again then, it bought a complete of $215.5 million value of the cash that have been seized from Silk Street hacker James Zhong.
Nonetheless, Arkham not too long ago used on-chain knowledge to estimate that the U.S. authorities had doubtless bought a further $2.24 billion value of Bitcoin associated to Zhong over the interval from June 2023 to December 2024.
Earlier this yr, the U.S. authorities established a strategic Bitcoin reserve that’s supposed to carry forfeited cryptocurrencies. On high of that, it has additionally established a separate stockpile for unspecified altcoins.
As reported by U.Right now, Bloomberg has estimated that there’s a 30% likelihood of the U.S. authorities shopping for Bitcoin in 2025.