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Re: Are Bitcoin private property
by
Naida_BR
on 02/05/2019, 07:41:58 UTC
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?

Bitcoin is a private property because only the individual has the rights to access the amount of cryptocurrencies.
As long as only one has access to them and no other entity or 3rd party can be involved (such as banks) then it is considered private.
It is a very nice and debatable poll and it would be nice to see the outcome of it.