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by sneak 4514 days ago
When you throw money and it's floating in the air and not in your hand, you can't spend it.

When I leak a private key and the coins remain unspent, I can still spend them.

Tossing money into the air clearly ends my ownership of it. Pastebinning bitcoin keys does not (at least until someone sweeps the coins somewhere else using that published key).