Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail

Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by Karunamon on Saturday September 29, 2018 @11:29AM (#18100904)

I'd be willing to wager my life on the fact that the government, any government, lacks the ability, resource, and desire to muster the compute power necessary to reverse a single bitcoin transaction more than a few hours old.

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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by nradov on Sunday September 30, 2018 @08:45PM (#18109272)

The government doesn't need to waste time manipulating blockchains. They can simply seize your assets by force.

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Re:Coinbase Wants to Be Too Big to Fail by Karunamon on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:22PM (#18116940)

Our government can't even stop people from distributing files containing data they don't like - what makes you think they can magically seize every single copy of a wallet that exists?

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