When asked about the U.S. government’s approach to Bitcoin and recent BTC seizures, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent re-affirmed that the administration will halt all sales of seized BTC and instead add it to the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR). 

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bessent told journalist Christine Lee that the initiative is part of a larger effort to bring digital-asset innovation onto U.S. soil while keeping federal oversight of seized cryptocurrency

This sentiment comes from questions about the government’s handling of BTC seized from developers linked to Tornado Cash in the Southern District of New York as well as the handling of bitcoin from…

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