Original archived Re: US Strategic Reserve; is it right to actually use seized assets as reserves
Scraped on 21/08/2025, 17:46:37 UTC
Just days after The US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent announced that the country which is actually setting up a bitcoin strategic reserve is not looking to buy bitcoin. With the intent of actually keeping the 200k bitcoin which is heavily reported to seized bitcoins in their possession as reserve.
Just after that a blockchain analytics platform Arkham reported that $300k value of coins have been moved to the government account from coinbase and it was reported to be siezed from an Hacker
Even though this is not bitcoin but is this the new method of which US are trying build their own reserve by holding siezed assets
My question is; is this actually right? I think this assets are supposed to auction or sold off?
Does Not buying bitcoin actually signifies that they don’t believe in bitcoin at all and are only fulfilling campaign promises.
If there asset is in there position and no one can take it from them then yes they could able to do it especially if all legislators would agree on what their President want to happen.
Also they already made that decision and so far US is doing good for holding lots of Bitcoin coming from those seize assets they get from somewhere else.
But look at this they are also open on possibilities buying Bitcoin
https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-treasury-still-exploring-budget-neutral-bitcoin-buys-secretary-says so for sure that they won't stop doing those things they currently done like relying on seize assets since for sure they are thinking about buying to increase their Bitcoin volume, remember they always want to be on top.
Yes they always want to be on top and even want to make their country a Bitcoin superpower But we saw that US Treasury Secretary Besant mentioned that they will create a Bitcoin reserve but they will not purchase Bitcoin there, Because they will use confiscated assets to advance this strategic reserve. There was also a sensational news that the US President signed an executive order for a reserve, then it seemed like this country might buy Bitcoin to stay on top.