On July 20, Bloomberg senior correspondent Merryn Somerset Webb advised Britain's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, to sell the country's 61,245 bitcoins to help rebuild Britain ", noting that as long as international criminals use bitcoin and are caught by the police, more cryptocurrencies may flow into their hands. Merryn Somerset Webb says Britain's new chancellor of the exchequer has inherited one of the worst circumstances since the second world war. It will take a lot of money to achieve the goal of rebuilding the UK and making every aspect of the country better. But there is a lot of cash at hand, and no tax to raise, and that is the UK's bitcoin assets.