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Senator Cynthia Lummis issued an alarm this week after the Freedom of Information Act response showed that the U.S. marshal service only 28,988 BTC. She warned that uninstalling more than 80% of government bitcoin hiding would be a “strategic mistake.”
According to reports, the number has raised concerns that the United States has sold on a large scale, down from 198,012 BTC earlier this year to 30,000 BTC overnight.
Confusion about Bitcoin regulation
According to Foia’s response, USM oversees seizures and confiscations of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. The amount it reported (29,000 BTC) only formally handed over the coins to the agency for auction.
I was shocked by the report that the US has sold 80% of its Bitcoin reserves, selling only about 29,000 coins.
If true, it is a complete strategic mistake and set the US Bitcoin game for a few years. https://t.co/ciyf1uhy0x
— Senator Cynthia Lummis (@senlummis) July 16, 2025
Other branches of law enforcement still have a large amount of bitcoin in their “seizure” identities, awaiting judicial decisions. These coins are not part of the USM.
Arkham Intelligence and Public Wallet Trackers estimates show that the federal government still controls about 198,012 BTC, with a current price value of about $235 billion. There is no evidence that the U.S. sold its reserves. Instead, these coins are placed in various wallets of multiple institutions.
The data on the chain depicts different pictures
Chain records show that the total number of federal Bitcoin holdings this year is almost unstable. The original 198,012 BTC figures came from criminal and civil forfeiture. When a seizure becomes forfeiture, the assets are transferred to USMS custody.
Until then, they were still the agency’s bill. This split explains why one report cites 29,000 BTC, while another nail holds a total of nearly 200,000 BTC.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year directing that confiscated bitcoin will be held in strategic reserves. He also asked the Ministry of Commerce and Treasury to find ways to add hiding without causing taxpayers to pay extra money.
Extended crypto portfolio
In addition to Bitcoin, the government holds other digital assets as part of its cryptocurrency portfolio. It has $347 million in Stablecoins on hand. There are 59,951 ETH, worth approximately $202 million.
OK, my guy. Since we all now have underwear in the chaos of the U.S. government “selling their bitcoins,” I want to remind you that there is a difference between *forfeited assets* and *forfeited assets*.
USM is mainly responsible for *confiscating assets*, which means…
-L0LA L33TZ (@l0lal33tz) July 16, 2025
The government also maintained 750 WBTC worth nearly $89 million and 40,293 BNB, totaling about $29 million. These figures increase the overall crypto portfolio to a market value of $24.25 billion.
A reporter named “Lola L33TZ” filed a Foia request. She stressed that seeing 29,000 BTC in the USMS report does not mean that any coins were sold.
She clarified that the forfeiture assets that the FBI or other agencies still hold only appeared in USMS custody after the court confiscation.
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