I'm talking about the money kind of bitcoin.
Some situations where the bitcoin status of being a private property or not could arise:
> A mistakenly sends bitcoins to B, and A finds out who B is.
> A mistakenly shows his private keys to B (by just saying it), and A finds out who B is.
> B executes a replay attack on A.
> B, by an practical impossible luck, creates a private key that had founds that belonged to A already.
> B sends money to A (and A sends "something" or some information to B). Then, we don't know why, everyone decides to change their Bitcoin rules and the result is that A can't get to spend his money in the new version.
I started an article (
here) trying to defend the idea that bitcoin is not private property, therefore all of the examples above couldn't be classified as theft or robbery (of private property).
What do you think?
When you own bitcoin, its your own private property. And we all know that having bitcoin is like having our own bank. How can someone knows who own Bitcoin A when there's no name associated with it?
And the situation you have put is flawed because as I have said, there is no name association so if hard to know who is the owner of A or B. And even those nodes are not private property of anyone.
They can decide to just drop out of the nodes without notifying others. And bitcoin is decentralize correct? So that alone shows the bitcoin is not a private property of anyone except you.