If the coins are held at an exchange then they are ss reachable a securities held that way.
If you're storing coins on an exchange, they're not your coins. The point of BTC is you don't need to do that.
The case of H. Beatty Chadwick is also worth keeping in mind (spent 14 years in jail in contempt of court because he claimed that he had lost all his money right before a divorce and the court didn't believe him.)
A solid point, but two counterarguments: There's safety in numbers – if everyone were to do this, courts probably wouldn't jail more than a dozen or so – and at the end of your jail term, you'd still have your wealth.
> There's safety in numbers – if everyone were to do this, courts probably wouldn't jail more than a dozen or so
As I mentioned, there's nothing specific to bitcoin about this strategy. You can do it with buried gold coins or with cash as HBC did. Or a dozen other ways. If "everyone" wanted to do it, they would have already.
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> and at the end of your jail term, you'd still have your wealth.
If you're storing coins on an exchange, they're not your coins. The point of BTC is you don't need to do that.
The case of H. Beatty Chadwick is also worth keeping in mind (spent 14 years in jail in contempt of court because he claimed that he had lost all his money right before a divorce and the court didn't believe him.)
A solid point, but two counterarguments: There's safety in numbers – if everyone were to do this, courts probably wouldn't jail more than a dozen or so – and at the end of your jail term, you'd still have your wealth.