The four most famous international exchanges:

Binance INTL	OKX INTL	Gate.io INTL	Huobi INTL
China Line　APP DL	China Line　APP DL	China Line　APP DL	China Line　APP DL

Note: The above exchange logo is the official website registration link, and the text is the APP download link.

Coin Circle (120BTc.coM): The U.S. Department of Justice issued an announcement on January 26 that Banmeet, the British operator of the dark web Silk Road,
Singh pleaded guilty to U.S. authorities after being extradited to the U.S. from London last year.

It is worth noting that this case also involved the largest Bitcoin seizure in the history of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), with a total amount of nearly 8,100 Bitcoins, worth as much as $349 million based on current market prices!

 The largest Bitcoin seizure in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history

According to an official announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice, 40-year-old Banmeet
Singh was arrested in London in April 2019. Between 2012 and 2017, Singh operated 8 drug distribution centers. After receiving drugs from overseas, he repackaged them and then sent them through Silk Road, Alpha
Darknet markets such as Bay, Hansa, and Dream Market sell large quantities of drugs strictly prohibited by the authorities to users in various states in the United States.

On the user side, through cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Money
Gram, PayPal and cash were used to pay him for drugs. Among the cryptocurrencies seized by the DEA, there were about 8,100 Bitcoins. The value at the time of the seizure was only about 150 million U.S. dollars, and the current market value has doubled to 349 million. Dollar!

 The U.S. government is one of the largest Bitcoin whales in the world, second only to Satoshi Nakamoto and 

According to data from the cryptocurrency intelligence platform Arkham, the U.S. government is currently one of the largest Bitcoin whales in the world. Its Bitcoin holdings currently stand at 216,400 coins, with a total value of up to $9.4 billion, which may rise again due to this seizure. .

According to bitinfocharts ranking data, the U.S. government currently holds only 1.1 million Bitcoins in Satoshi Nakamoto’s addresses (approximately 1.1 million BTCs are held in 22,000 addresses, but have not been used for a long time) and tagged exchanges 248,600 in Binance’s () cold wallet. (But the money should belong to the customer).

Where do such huge amounts of Bitcoin come from? Dune, an on-chain data tool, shows that in addition to the Bitcoin seized this time, between November 2020 and 2022, the U.S. government seized more than 20 coins from cybercriminals and darknet markets in three different operations. Thousands of Bitcoins are currently stored in encrypted, password-protected offline cold wallets controlled by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, or other agencies.

Specific source details are as follows:

   The largest black market on the dark web, Silk Road, confiscated – 69,369 BTC in November 2020, now worth more than $3 billion

  Bitfinex hacker confiscated – 94,643 BTC in January 2022, now worth over $4 billion

   Confiscated from Silk Road hacker James Zhong in March 2022 – 51,326 BTC, the US government still holds 41.5K BTC of this portion