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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) by dheera on Monday April 13, 2026 @02:50PM (#47756331)
Don't they sneeze peoples' Bitcoin just the same?

With Feds showing up with your door with guns and handcuffs, you'll have to hand over your private keys, and that's how they freeze BTC accounts. It's not particularly immune to the same threats.

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) by williebeek on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:25PM (#47756744)
Store your Bitcoin private key in a password manager. Would you really give out your keyvault master password to them?
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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) by dheera on Monday April 13, 2026 @03:42PM (#47756919)
It doesn't matter how it's stored if they have guns and handcuffs or any other form of $5 wrench (xkcd.com/538).
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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) by kokkis on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @06:25AM (#47763695)
Yeah, that's the classic xkcd-reality. It will be a rather difficult to enforce that _en masse_. However, should that happen, then the money is the least of one's worries. In any case, financial censorship in that case would be the least of one's worries, if it comes down to such threats and physical violence.
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