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Because they gained physical access to the machines holding the coins? Surely you understand the difference there right?

If all of your money is being held by random companies, it's not really your money is it? Cryptocurrencies give you all the autonomy of cash, while still allowing you to send it to anyone over the internet.




> Because they gained physical access

That’s the very definition of “taken” isn’t it?


Get a wallet, store the phrase in your head, how are they going to get physical access?


Inject you with some sodium thiopental and then further use a $5 wrench as needed for motivation. ;)


Then you give them the keys to your other wallet that contains enough for plausible deniability.


Reality called and told me to welcome you to come back to it.


Well reality should know that someone can obtain any of your property via drugs and torture.

But through multi-sig, time-locked contracts, multiple wallets, bitcoin is more difficult than most.


> reality should know that someone can obtain any of your property

There you go, was that so hard?

Bitcoin isn’t some magical panacea, the reality is it’s as easily stolen/taken/lost in 99% of cases as anything else.

Sure, there might be some ultra tiny percentage of folks who are truly secure with it, but there is virtually the _same_ number who are ultra secure with other non-bitcoin stored value systems.


I assume you haven't read/seen "The Great Taking"?




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