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by hartator 1671 days ago
> The money is yours and no government can confiscate it.

Well the FBI owns the largest Bitcoin wallet. And I am pretty sure it's not from mining.

Ref: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@loryon/fbi-is-global-stakeholde...

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That is money taken from custodials (i.e. the bitcoin wasn't actually yours) or through force from captured individuals. No part of that was taken by calling the bitcoin CEO to require editing the balances on the blockchain.