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Re:What do you legally “own” with Bitcoin? A short introduct... by craftyguy on Saturday November 24, 2018 @06:18PM (#18524466)
> The lawyer in this article asserts that

Has this been tested in court? Lawyers say all kinds of things, but the set of proven-correct things they say is smaller than the set of all things they say.

Re:What do you legally “own” with Bitcoin? A short introduct... by PeterisP on Saturday November 24, 2018 @06:35PM (#18524520)
The main point of this article is that there is nothing in current case law regarding the concept of cryptocurrency ownership, these questions have never been raised in courts yet, so all we can do to evaluate what's likely to happen is to apply analogies from the existing case law regarding non-crypto intangible assets, from which this article cites quite interesting cases.