GOV-USUnited States
DOJ announces ~50,676 BTC seizure from James Zhong (Silk Road fraud)
BTCPurchase · Nov 7, 2022
US government bitcoin is forfeiture-funded; this discrete DOJ forfeiture is recorded for auditability. The headline US total (~328,372 BTC) is an on-chain/court-filing estimate that already nets sales, so it is not the sum of these events.
Source: justice.gov →Aggregator only
Holds more BTC than all but 2 other tracked holders.
- Total holdings
- 198,000 BTC