ChainCatcher news, according to Watcher.Guru data, the German government had previously decided to sell 50,000 bitcoins at a price of $54,000, resulting in a missed profit of $1.7 billion.

According to previous reports, Decrypt reported that German law enforcement agencies netted approximately $2.88 billion (€2.639 billion) by 'emergency selling' nearly 50,000 bitcoins.