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Illya Gerasymchuk
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User Illya Gerasymchuk -

2025-11-01 15:24

Multiple governments have seized Bitcoin

In fact, more Bitcoin has been seized than gold in the U.S. It's really not hard to google this, but here are some examples:

- Silk Road takedown (2013–2015) - ≈175K BTC
- "Individual X" Silk Road stash (2020) - ≈75K BTC
- Bitfinex-hack recovery (2022) - >94K BTC
- Movie2K piracy case - ≈50K BTC
- Finland Customs seizures - ≈2K BTC
- Netherlands money-laundering case - ≈2.5K BTC
- China PlusToken crackdown ≈200K BTC

Regarding gold - yes, it was seized in the past in the US, but it was at a much smaller scale than you imagine.

The publicly documented, conservative floor for government-seized BTC is ≈700K BTC (≈$77B today), which is already above the $58–110B value range for U.S. public gold coin surrendered in 1933–34.

If your argument is that Bitcoin is better than gold, because it's more private/seizure resistant - you are wrong.

If you think that by holding Bitcoin you're immune to U.S. government policies you're also wrong, as more than 90% of all Bitcoin buying volume comes from USD or USD derivatives (including stablecoins).

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