In 2018, Bulgaria sold off 213,500 Bitcoin seized during an anti-corruption operation, a decision that now haunts the country as that stash would be worth over $25 billion today.
At today's prices, that single holding could have paid off the nation's entire public debt, making Bulgaria one of the few countries in the world with a clean slate and a crypto-fueled surplus.
The coins were originally acquired through a police bust on cybercriminals, but were quickly auctioned off -long before anyone imagined what Bitcoin would become.
