The US government is selling its bitcoin…all $38,000 worth:

Tucked away among the Ford, Dodge and Chevy sedans, the 12,000-gallon storage container and the inoperable Caterpillar tractor being auctioned off by the U.S. government is an unusual item: 0.7501 of a Bitcoin.

The federal government did not reveal the source of its cryptocurrency holdings, but I imagine they were probably seized in a bust of some sort. Indeed, a far larger collection was sold off when the Silk Road was shut down:

The government doesn’t say where its surplus digital currency came from. And while it’s a far cry from the 30,000 Bitcoins auctioned off by the U.S. Marshals Service in 2014 after they were seized from the Silk Road marketplace, the GSA auction is one more indication of how Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream.

This does make me wonder if eventually states and sovereign wealth funds will buy crypto and hold it. Can the day be far in the future?

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