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It doesn't provide any property rights? Well then, why don't you go ahead and help yourself with some billions in Bitcoin from Musk's personal holdings? Should be easy, according to you.

I think you'll find that it's much much easier to repossess a house, rather than repossess a bitcoin address with billions.

Here's a detailed analysis by a law professor from a reputable law school on Bitcoin as a property rights system: https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1676...



> Well then, why don't you go ahead and help yourself with some billions in Bitcoin from Musk's personal holdings?

Give me a rubber hose and $5 wrench and I'll start working on it:

* https://xkcd.com/538/

Once it's transferred what recourse does he have to revert it?

> Here's a detailed analysis by a law professor from a reputable law school

Ah yes, the William & Mary Law School. The same law school that birthed the idea that the US Second Amendment was an individual right…


What are your thoughts on "United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876)"?




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