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Your bank account can sure ve seized by the government and even not auctioned off.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Your bank account can sure ve seized by the government and even not auctioned off.
- IshKebab 3y agoThat's far less likely in most Western countries. Whether or not bitcoin is safer than a bank depends on where you live. But in the West it definitely isn't. If you live in the third world, sure.
- johngladtj 3y agoTell that to all those Russian oligarchs that got their assets frozen
- siftrics 3y agoTo be fair to the parent commenter, they specifically said "the West", which is exactly the opposite of Russia. That said, I do think freedom to transact is an essential human right yet to be enshrined.
- ipaddr 3y agoThe freezing happened in the west
- chromatin 3y agoThe Western world is who froze their assets :/
- mrguyorama 3y ago>That said, I do think freedom to transact is an essential human right yet to be enshrined. You literally cannot create a "freedom to transact" without violating other people's freedom of association. You have no right to other people's anything.
- siftrics 3y agoCan you explain more? I don't get how transacting affects third parties.
- whatwhaaaaat 3y agoI agreed until the Canadian trucker protestors had their bank accounts frozen.
- adriancr 3y agohow would bitcoin have helped them?, presumably their wallets if made public to request donations would also have been flagged at all exchanges so no way to cash out.
- katbyte 3y agoYou can also be put in jail for contempt until you cough up your bitcoins If those in power want something, they tend to get it
- ipaddr 3y agoKnowledge is power. If they do not know about it they can't ask for it
- Lemmi 3y agoWuhu good that I'm not a shitty person and the risk of loosing a wallet is 100x more realistic than your scenario