Finns on the money as they confiscate 2,000 Bitcoin in clampdown

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Kati Pohjanpalo

Finland is trying to work out how to handle the roughly 2,000 Bitcoins authorities in the country have confiscated.

Worth almost €35m on December 18, 2017, when the cryptocurrency peaked, the Bitcoins are now valued at about €19m. Finnish government guidelines make it clear that authorities handling the coins won't be allowed to store them on virtual currency exchanges.