The U.S. government announced its seizure of $1 billion worth of the cryptocurrency bitcoin on the same day that the digital asset surged above $15,000 per coin, its highest sustained price since January 2018. [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-government-seizes-1b-in-bitcoin-as-the-cryptocurrency-rockets-past-15000/ar-BB1aJPBi](https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/us-government-seizes-1b-in-bitcoin-as-the-cryptocurrency-rockets-past-15000/ar-BB1aJPBi)

The U.S. government will need to prove its case before a federal judge before it can keep the forfeited assets.