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1. fxtent+35[view] [source] 2022-02-08 17:11:20
>>mikeyo+(OP)
Shouldn't all true crypto believers hate this news?

It's the government trying to enforce their opinion of who should own those Bitcoins, thereby taking power away from the owner that the network has decided on, which would be "whoever has the cryptographic keys".

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2. TTProg+mo[view] [source] 2022-02-08 18:24:30
>>fxtent+35
Obvious no-true-scotsman. Believing that the goal of crypto is to circumvent laws regarding possession and theft is at most a fringe belief. The fact that this is at the top of HN demonstrates how devoid of merit crypto discussion here is.
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3. tootie+lk1[view] [source] 2022-02-08 22:42:02
>>TTProg+mo
Not OP but I think the true Scotsman isn't that laws don't apply, it's that the ledger is infallible and authoritative.
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4. vageli+gu1[view] [source] 2022-02-08 23:45:49
>>tootie+lk1
Is the ledger wrong in this case? Does the entity holding the key have access to the coins?
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