so am I right in the assumption that really nobody owns bitcoins?
bitcoin and ownership, a few ideas.
so, I can own a car, I can own stocks, I can own cash. I can put some of these things in my safe, but I can not put bitcoins in my safe? not even my wallet that says how many bitcoins I allegedly own, I can own.
so, this might be confusing to some, but as far as I understand it, ownership of bitcoin is really public, but access to bitcoin is private, right?
so who owns bitcoins really? nobody? everybody?
I think the distinction in regards to ownership, makes for some really interesting thought experiments.
if essentially everybody owns bitcoins, can someone who syncs his wallet to the bitcoin network and downloads all blocks, claim that he owns bitcoin(s).
isn't decentralization of ownership the one real big deal about bitcoin that barely ever anyone is talking about?
or am I over-thinking things?
to me the differentiation between ownership of bitcoins, and ownership of access to bitcoins is huge.
thoughts? maybe some lawyer want to chime in? cause if I only have access to something, but don't own it, do laws regarding ownership really apply?
what if a government was silly enough to ban people from owning bitcoin, and people said "I don't own bitcoins, nobody owns bitcoins, silly you."
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