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The order also requires federal agencies to find out how much confiscated bitcoin they hold in order to add it to the reserve. While the industry awaits an official audit, this article puts together a timeline of some of the major events that have made the United States the world's largest holder of Bitcoin nations.

On November 3, 2020, U.S. authorities seized 69,370 bitcoins from an unidentified individual who had hacked into the illegal online marketplace Silk Road, the largest in the U.S. at the time