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Re:How the Feds Can Take Even Legally Earned Bitcoins by JumpCrisscross on Saturday February 22, 2014 @06:47PM (#7284187)
Legal tender and negotiable instruments, e.g. cheques, are exempt from the nemo dat rule [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_dat_quod_non_habet#United_...

Re:How the Feds Can Take Even Legally Earned Bitcoins by pmorici on Saturday February 22, 2014 @07:03PM (#7284251)
That Wikipedia article seems to be talking about goods that were stolen and then resold but the Bloomberg piece is talking about the government seizing things which they think were involved in a illegal transaction w/o claim that anything was stolen just that one of the goods exchanged might have been illegal in the eyes of the law.