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dheeralast Monday at 6:50 PM2 repliesview on HN

Don't they sneeze peoples' Bitcoin just the same?

With Feds showing up with your door with guns and handcuffs, you'll have to hand over your private keys, and that's how they freeze BTC accounts. It's not particularly immune to the same threats.


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williebeeklast Monday at 7:25 PM

Store your Bitcoin private key in a password manager. Would you really give out your keyvault master password to them?

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kokkisyesterday at 10:25 AM

Yeah, that's the classic xkcd-reality. It will be a rather difficult to enforce that _en masse_. However, should that happen, then the money is the least of one's worries. In any case, financial censorship in that case would be the least of one's worries, if it comes down to such threats and physical violence.