March 6, 2025
Treasury converts DOJ forfeiture assets into Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
Executive order diverts seized crypto into off-budget bitcoin reserves
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On Mar. 6, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14233 establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve funded by bitcoin and other digital assets seized under civil and criminal forfeiture, diverting those proceeds away from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund under 31 U.S.C. 9705 (Federal Register EO text; GovInfo 31 U.S.C. 9705).
Section 3(a) of EO 14233 requires the Treasury Department to capitalize the reserve with all bitcoin already forfeited to Treasury and directs every federal agency to report its seized digital-asset holdings within 30 days of Mar. 6, 2025 (EO text Sec. 3(a); EO text Sec. 3).
Section 3(b) of EO 14233 channels all non-BTC tokens forfeited to the United States into a separate U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile, while Section 3(e) gives Treasury 60 days from Mar. 6, 2025 to draft management guidelines for both pools (EO text Sec. 3(b); EO text Sec. 3(e)).
Reuters and AP estimate the reserve will include approximately 200 000 BTC—valued at about $18 billion using a $90 000-per-bitcoin price—making it the first time the U.S. treats bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset (Reuters crypto reserve story; AP crypto order story).
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Section 3(a) capitalizes the reserve with bitcoin held by which department?
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Which EO number created the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
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EO 14233 lets Treasury sell reserve bitcoin at will to fund general spending.
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Civil forfeiture critics often cite which amendment’s due-process clause?
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Reuters estimated the government holds roughly how many **thousand** bitcoin?
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President Donald J. Trump
signed Executive Order 14233 on Mar. 6, 2025, creating the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (Federal Register EO text).
David Sacks, Treasury’s Digital Asset ‘crypto czar’
on Mar. 7, 2025, hosted industry CEOs at the Treasury Department’s digital-asset office to discuss seed bitcoin transfers into the reserve (Reuters summit write-up).