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Originally Posted by sloride
If the FBI knows how to grab someones bitcoin so do others. Good luck with that gamble. Last I checked it was around 34K, was at 65K a short while back.
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They (FBI) got access to the encryption key with a warrant because the banking institutions were on US soil. If the crypto was not held in a crypto vault (off line) then crypto is no different than any other bank account. A warrant can be obtained for the account/password and the funds can be confiscated. Had the funds been transferred to a offline vault, there would be nothing that the FBI or anyone else could do. I believe this was also covered in the thread about the man with several million in BTC on a vault he could not access.
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