The US government has seized nearly 130,000 BTC — worth almost $15 billion — marking the largest forfeiture action in history and spurring discussions of what this could mean for the newly-created strategic bitcoin reserves. 

Experts warn that the road ahead is lengthy. 

The actual seizure of the assets is only the first step, though. Should the court find that the assets were illicitly obtained, investigators will then have to go about finding and compensating victims. 

“Yes, they’ve seized the assets, but that doesn’t mean they own it. It means they’ve laid a claim to it,” Aidan Larkin, co-founder and CEO of Asset Reality, said during a keynote address at…

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