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by chx 637 days ago
Erm, no.

No government can freeze your bitcoins.

It's not money.

You might find it ever increasingly difficult to change bitcoins to real money if a country -- or multiple -- is against it. No such thing happens currently but there are constant efforts to bring KYC and so forth to exchanges.

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> U.S. persons and entities – meaning anyone on American soil or any U.S. citizens abroad – are barred from transacting with the addresses or people added to the sanctions list.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/09/14/us-treasury-black...