Country Bitcoin holdings ranking

The BitcoinTreasuries website, maintained by Coinkite, a producer of digital currency security equipment, is dedicated to tallyand displaying data on Bitcoin holdings of major entities worldwide, in summary sources including SEC filings, quarterly reports and press releases. According to the website, the U.S. government currently owns the most bitcoins.

The U.S. government holds the most

Here are the top 10 governments' bitcoin holdings:

1.United States: 213,246 bitcoins held, worth about $13.58 billion
2.China: Holds 190,000 bitcoins, worth about $12.1 billion
3.United Kingdom: Holds 61,000 bitcoins worth about $3.8 billion
4.Germany: Holds 50,000 bitcoins, worth about $3.18 billion
5.Ukraine: Holds 46,351 bitcoins worth about $2.95 billion
6.El Salvador: Holds 5,702 bitcoins worth about $363 million (El Salvador plans to buy 1 bitcoin a day until the country's fiat currency can no longer pay)
7.Bhutan: Holds 621 bitcoins worth about $39.55 million
8.Venezuela: Held 240 bitcoins worth about $15.29 million
9.Finland: Held 90 bitcoins worth about $5.73 million
10.Georgia: Holds 66 bitcoins worth about $4.2 million

The national government holds many crimes

These top governments have never bought bitcoin, and their holdings have been confiscated from criminals.

The U.S. government has seized more than 200,000 bitcoins in three separate enforcement actions between November 2020 and 2022, which are currently stored primarily in encrypted and password-protected offline cold wallets controlled by the U.S. Department of Justice, IRS, or other agencies. The main sources of forfeiture by the U.S. government include:

In November 2020, 69,369 BTC confiscated from the dark web black market Silk Road
In January 2022, 94,643 BTC confiscated from the Bitfinex hacking case
Of the 51,326 BTC confiscated from Silk Road hacker James Zhong in March 2022, the U.S. government still holds 41,500 BTC
Last February, the U.S. government sold 9,861 bitcoins once owned by Silk Road on Coinbase. In February, the U.S. government transferred 15,085 BTC seized in the Bitfinex hacking case, possibly in preparation for an auction.
The Chinese government, with the second largest holding, confiscated 190,000 bitcoins in the PlusToken pyramid scheme in 2020. According to the criminal ruling, the property seized by the Chinese public security organs at that time included:

194,775 Bitcoin (BTC)
833,083 Ether coins (ETH)
1.4 million Litecoin (LTC)
27.6 million EOS
74,167 DASH
6 billion Dogecoins (DOGE)
80,000 Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
213,724 USDT
The government of the United Kingdom, the third largest holder of bitcoin, confiscated 61,000 bitcoins in a bitcoin money laundering case. Jian Wen, a former British Chinese restaurant worker, was confiscated for helping money launder Zhimin Qian, a Chinese fugitive who came to the UK using a false identity.

The Bulgarian government held 213,519 bitcoins

The United States, the current number one, holds 213,246 bitcoins, while the government of Bulgaria, a small country, held 213,246 bitcoins. The famous founder of OneCoin, known as the "queen of cryptocurrencies" Ruja Ignatova, is from Bulgaria.

In 2017, the local police seized more than $3 billion worth of bitcoins, a total of 213,519, but the local government was found to have sold all the bitcoins in 2018, the media quoted the government as saying that the bitcoins had been sold in a secret auction, claiming that it had decided to use the funds raised to buy new warplanes. To strengthen the Bulgarian army.