TechFlow news — On January 21, according to Financefeeds, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent officially announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20 that the U.S. government will halt all planned liquidations of seized digital assets. Under the new policy, all Bitcoin (BTC) held by the Department of Justice and the Treasury—primarily acquired through criminal and civil asset forfeitures—will be permanently transferred into a "U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve."
Bessent emphasized that the government's priority is to "stop the erosion of sovereign digital wealth," treating the existing holdings of over 200,000 BTC as permanent value reserves. The Treasury Secretary stated that the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve will grow organically through law enforcement seizures, rather than through taxpayer-funded purchases in the open market.
