• The USA holds the most important share of Bitcoin in comparison with another authorities, with an estimated $12 billion in holdings.
• Germany plans to promote roughly $1.08 billion price of the seized bitcoin over-the-counter.
• El Salvador's $314 million Bitcoin holdings characterize a strategic funding within the nation's technique to undertake Bitcoin as authorized tender.

Knowledge analytics agency Arcam revealed that a number of governments are holding a mixed $17.8 billion price of Bitcoin, elevating considerations a couple of doable liquidation and its influence on the cryptocurrency market.

The USA, United Kingdom, Germany and El Salvador are among the many governments with giant quantities of Bitcoin, and every has adopted totally different methods to handle these digital belongings.

The U.S. authorities holds the most important bitcoin portfolio ever seized in high-profile prison circumstances, such because the 2013 Silk Highway shutdown, with an estimated $12 billion price of BTC.

Up to now, the U.S. has auctioned off seized bitcoin, however latest reviews have urged a transfer to a market-based method that might embrace over-the-counter (OTC) gross sales, however the timeline for future gross sales stays unclear, as governments sometimes preserve their plans secret to forestall market manipulation.

The UK has round $3.3 billion price of Bitcoin that has been earmarked for legislation enforcement actions, and whereas the UK has not been very public about its plans, its tax authorities have beforehand auctioned off seized cryptocurrency.

Germany’s Bitcoin holdings, valued at round $2.2 billion, lately made headlines after the federal government determined to promote over $1 billion of seized cryptocurrency over-the-counter. The transfer marks a significant shift from the nation’s earlier method of holding onto seized digital belongings, and has caught the eye of market members.

Nonetheless, El Salvador has taken a distinct method, accumulating $314 million price of Bitcoin as a part of a nationwide technique to undertake BTC as authorized tender. In contrast to different governments, El Salvador's Bitcoin coffers are a strategic funding, not a results of seized belongings.