On Tuesday, 20 January 2015, at 6:44 pm, Tamas Blummer wrote: > Knowing the private key and owning the linked coins is not necessarily the > same in front of a court. > > At least in german law there is a difference between ‘Eigentum' means > ownership and ‘Besitz’ means ability to deal with it. > Being able to deal with an asset does not make you the owner.
So what we're telling the newbies in /r/bitcoin is plain wrong. Bitcoins *do* have an owner independent from the parties who have access to the private keys that control their disposition. That's pretty difficult to reconcile from a technological perspective. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
