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by amluto 1321 days ago
Indeed. If you have 100k shells, you can at least sell them on Craigslist. With a fully collapsed Bitcoin valuation, the last “good” state of the chain is public knowledge, and you may know the private key associated with 100k BTC as indicated by the last good chain, but you can’t reliably do anything with that knowledge.

So the chain itself could become a fascinating artifact, but the magic that made it possible to move Bitcoin around would be gone.

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Just because you have the 100k shells doesn't mean you can sell them.