I am not a lawyer, just thinking loud. I think that technology is a strong argument before court, but I suspect that it is just that, as of now.
Tamas Blummer On Jan 20, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Matt Whitlock <b...@mattwhitlock.name> wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 January 2015, at 6:44 pm, Tamas Blummer wrote: >> Knowing the private key and owning the linked coins is not necessarily the >> same in front of a court. >> >> At least in german law there is a difference between ‘Eigentum' means >> ownership and ‘Besitz’ means ability to deal with it. >> Being able to deal with an asset does not make you the owner. > > So what we're telling the newbies in /r/bitcoin is plain wrong. Bitcoins *do* > have an owner independent from the parties who have access to the private > keys that control their disposition. That's pretty difficult to reconcile > from a technological perspective. > >
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