The U.S. Marshals Service, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, disclosed that the federal government currently custodies 28,988 Bitcoin, valued at roughly $3.4 billion at prevailing prices. The figure represents only about 15% of the nearly 200,000 Bitcoin that analysts had long believed Washington controlled through criminal forfeitures and seizures.
On-chain analyst reviews subsequently noted that the Marshals’ tally covers coins formally forfeited to the agency and does not include Bitcoin still held by investigative bodies such as the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service. Those unspent transaction outputs are estimated to bring the government’s potential total holdings closer to earlier assumptions, although no official aggregate number has been released.
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