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by crediblewitness 2516 days ago
> Good luck with that. If there is no way to have a US court take ownership of a domain (or force someone to handover a bad faith registration), someone will either end up in jail for contempt, or it will just be banned.

This same argument applies to bitcoin and it has not (yet) been banned in much of the free world.
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mugsie 2516 days ago
We don't see them trying to change anything on the chain with bitcoin - just trace people (and law enforcement has gotten pretty good at that to be fair). They seize wallets from people they arrest, like normal cash / assets, or get a court order to get companies holding the coin to hand them over, if the accused used a hosted wallet.
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crediblewitness 2516 days ago
it would work exactly the same then: taking ownership of the handshake private key by which the registration means you control that name.
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