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Germany came to seize 50,000 BTC which, in retrospect, ended up selling for two soft drinks.
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Bitcoin is today the best coverage against inflation and a key to the global economic future.
A year ago, the German government made a decision that today regrets: it got rid of the funds that were left of the 50,000 BTC that it had seized in January 2024. At that time, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) was around $ 57,000. Today, it exceeded $ 118,000 marking a new record.
As Cryptonotics reported on July 12, 2024, the German government transferred the last 3,000 BTC that still had an address associated with Exchange B2C2. With that transaction, he ended a process that left many within the ecosystem perplexed.
If the political machinery would not have shown, as usual again, its clumsiness, Germany would have doubled its income.
But no, the Teuton government decided not to wait and sold its Bitcoin for 2.9 billion dollars, at an average price of approximately $ 58,000 per unit. If I had liquidated them today, at a value of $ 117,500 per BTC, it would have obtained around 5,870 million dollars.
The difference is abysmal: The Government let a gain that revolves around 3,000 million dollars.
The only thing they did was to turn their bitcoin into fíat money as quickly as possible, protecting themselves in legal, operational and compliance motifs. In the background, The sale did nothing but evidence an absolute lack of long -term vision.
While companies, funds and countries with greater understanding of the sector accumulated, Germany rushed to sell. Not because I could not wait, but for a simple logic: «We better assure something now, because if the price falls, then the criticisms will rain.»
A loss historical opportunity
If they have sold their Bitcoin today, German officials could have begun to assemble plans to allocate that money to any public cause: education, health, infrastructure or technological innovation.
Instead, they decided to follow the «logic» of the «suspicious and volatile asset, which is also a threat to the traditional financial system.»
But Bitcoin, in the middle of 2025, is a digital value reserve with increasingly high adoption levelsthe best coverage against inflation and a technology with deep implications for the global economic future. Who understood him in time won; Those who, as in the case of Germany, will have to settle for seeing the train from the platform.
The market has already decided
Germany sold. The market bought. And today, the price of Bitcoin marks a new historical maximum, as if the network itself said: «Thank you for the cheap offer, but we move on without you.»
Yes, history punishes ignorance, and the case of politicians is particular: their own meanness usually turns off any will to learn about something that really benefits people. In the case of the German government, that attitude cost them billions of dollars.
Meanwhile, El Salvador, who with some exceptions has signed his strategy of buying a bitcoin daily, can boast of A reserve that this week exceeded 700 million dollars.
The United States, meanwhile, has already signed authorization to create a strategic bitcoin and advance, step by step, towards remarkable reconciliation with the sector.
As the legendary Roman poet Virgilio said: Fuck with a daring helpsor «fortune favors the bold.»
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