Odaily News According to Arkham monitoring, the German government now owns $1 worth of Bitcoin. In the past three weeks, the German government sent its entire balance of 49,860 BTC ($2.9 billion) to exchanges and market makers. Two hours after sending the last batch of Bitcoin, the German government received 0.0000321 Bitcoin from an unknown person - making the value of Germany's national Bitcoin holdings slightly less than $2.