🚨 Germany may have lost more than $500 MILLION by selling Bitcoin too early.
In 2024, the German government decided to sell nearly 50,000 $BTC , coins that had been seized years earlier during a criminal investigation linked to a piracy website. At the time the sale was worth about $2.7 billion, and authorities began unloading the Bitcoin gradually through exchanges. The selling pressure was so large that it briefly pushed the market down, as billions of dollars’ worth of BTC suddenly started hitting the order books.
But the story didn’t end there. Not long after the government finished selling, Bitcoin began to recover and later moved significantly higher. If those same 50,000 $BTC had simply been held a little longer instead of being liquidated, their value could have been hundreds of millions of dollars higher.
In other words, one of the largest Bitcoin sales ever carried out ended up looking like a mistake many investors know too well: selling too early. The difference is that this time it wasn’t a nervous trader panic-selling a dip — it was an entire government moving billions.
Sometimes in crypto the hardest thing isn’t buying Bitcoin. It’s having the patience to hold it long enough.