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United Kingdom — sovereign Bitcoin

United Kingdom holds 61,000 BTC ($3,897,290,000) · status Seized — held · tier 2. As of 2024-10-30.

Holdings: 61,000 BTC
USD value: $3,897,290,000
% of supply: 0.307%
Tier: T2

Framework

Holdings comprise BTC seized by UK law-enforcement (notably ~61,000 BTC seized in 2018 from a single Chinese money-laundering case). Held by HMRC / Crown Prosecution Service pending forfeiture proceedings. No strategic-reserve framework.

Notes

Status could shift to 'strategic_reserve' or 'divested' depending on outcome of forfeiture proceedings.

Status history

2018-08-01 → present
Seized — held

Sources

National Crypto Reserves Tracker — CCN (secondary)

as of 2024-10-30

Keep reading

All sovereign holdings →Sovereign-adoption signal →US reserve: law vs stalled →ETF vs sovereign divergence →

Other sovereigns

🇺🇸 United States325,000 🇨🇳 China190,000 🇺🇦 Ukraine46,351 🇸🇻 El Salvador7,565 🇧🇹 Bhutan3,654 🇫🇮 Finland90 🇵🇰 Pakistan0 🇧🇷 Brazil0

Observable government Bitcoin holdings, primary-source cited and dated. Figures are point-in-time and can change. Information, not financial advice. How this is compiled: methodology. Machine-readable: coinbucha.com/sovereigns.json.