Freezing coins (theft) is right up there as giant red flags for those of us in Bitcoin who value its *unconfiscatable* property
The “it might damage the price” reasoning confirms that these change proposals are not coming from protecting the very features that value actually derives from
As Yippiebeans (nprofile…cmzu), and more recently nprofile1qqst09upujw8hzl85ngt4nuv822739zt40w5y6n9gz4vphwajahzu8gprpmhxue69uhkc6t8dp6xu6twvaex2mrp0yhxxmmdqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsva3v94 (nprofile…3v94) in his Bitcoin Magazine essay have highlighted, the legal systems of the world are slowly converging on Bitcoin as property .. and there’s NO wiggle room in the *action* of spending someone else’s coins (no matter how long they’ve been “dormant”) being theft
The idea that dormancy abdicates ownership is right up there with the framing that saving is hoarding
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