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1. bdhcui+E9[view] [source] 2025-01-22 01:23:47
>>Ozarki+(OP)
Will he get his possesions back then?

50,676 bitcoins, today valued at 5,3 billion USD.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...

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2. throwa+Le[view] [source] 2025-01-22 01:55:42
>>bdhcui+E9
Until now I oddly never questioned how any government could seize someone's bitcoin and how a government keeps the private keys of their crypto wallets secure.
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3. yieldc+ch[view] [source] 2025-01-22 02:12:40
>>throwa+Le
a lot of known best practices were not followed in 2013.

Every advancement in crypto was done after the government made a move. And all subsequent moves netted the government less.

Now it takes more agencies to seize darknet markets, and most merchants and consumers get their money back because it was a multisignature transaction and the server stored nothing. Even domains have been seized back from the government.

The crypto space calls it "antifragility", as in the idea - and now history - that the asset class and infrastructure improves under pressure.

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4. dmix+qC[view] [source] 2025-01-22 05:29:34
>>yieldc+ch
> a lot of known best practices were not followed in 2013.

like Secret Service and DEA agents getting immediately caught trying to steal Bitcoin from Silk Road?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/03/30/federal-agent...

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5. yieldc+KI[view] [source] 2025-01-22 06:34:21
>>dmix+qC
Yes, like that

I was referring to hot and cold wallet practices, methods for unlinking transaction activity from your KYC’d funds, and the immaturity of multi-signature at the time

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