In the US people are already serving indefinite prison sentences for being in contempt until they comply with a court order [0]. This is an open ended sentence.

In the US people are already serving indefinite prison sentences for being in contempt until they comply with a court order [0]. This is an open ended sentence. But the claim made above was that the whole point of BTC is that it cannot be confiscated. In reality it can be confiscated to the same extent to which any currency/valuable can be confiscated. You can't confiscate things you don't know about or can't get to and this is applicable to anything: money in hidden off shore accounts, art in an obscure warehouse, jewelry buried under a house, etc. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/23/francis-rawls-philadelphia-police-child-abuse-encryption https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/23/francis-r...