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>They can be as angry as they want to be, but that will not un-transfer those bitcoins. Hell, they can beat you with a wrench for the rest of your natural life but that will not get the bitcoins back

That's very comforting.




Actually it is, because it means that since they provably have no way to coerce you, anything they do can be shown to be petty revenge, and that's really the worst way to support one's case.

Governments are used to having a stick to support their arguments with; take it away, and you will find them very bad at making an argument.


>Actually it is, because it means that since they provably have no way to coerce you, anything they do can be shown to be petty revenge, and that's really the worst way to support one's case.

Petty revenge is the bread and butter of lesser bureaucrats in government.




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