CASE STUDY | This is How the World’s Largest Known State Holder of Bitcoin Accumulates Crypto

According to Arkham intelligence intelligence, the U.S government holds approximately 328, 372 bitcoins (BTC) making it the largest known state holder of Bitcoin in the world.

By current prices, that puts the stash at about $25 billion in valuation.

Speaking in a forum recently, the U.S Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, said the United statess had seized a billion dollars from Iran by ‘just outright grabbed the wallets.’ 

The above confirms the statements from the secretary in August 2025 when he said the government was looking at growing its crypto assets reserves without buying additional Bitcoin.

Bessent’s comments in August 2025 further supports this direction:

“We’re not going to be buying that, but are going to use confiscated assets and continue to build that up. We’re going to stop selling that.”

The establishment of a U.S Strategic Bitcoin Reserve back in March 2025 began with approximately 198,022 BTC already owned and held by federal goverment. The stash was forfeited as part of criminal and civil proceedings minus assets that needed to be returned to victims of crypto crime.

According to Trump, the goverment would develop a budget-neutral strategy to acquire additional Bitcoin without any incremental costs to American taxpayers. An executive order establishing the U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile enabled bitcoin and crypto assets forfeiture in criminal and civil proceedings essentially enabling the government to acquire additional crypto through these means.

President Trump’s strategic reserve held assets valued at $15-20 billion by August 2025. The recent $25 billion valuation point to growing reserve assets despite a slump in crypto prices.

Recent forfeitures of Iranian crypto assets would therefore fall within these reserve assets adding to the U.S government holdings.

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