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Also not to mention they need to be seen fair doing it. Wouldn't look good if the USMS was seen passing the coins off to their mates.


Especially considering some of these coins came from a lot seized from the FBI agents (Carl Force was one) who tried to pocket it during the Ross Ulricht case. ;) The risk of something unethical happening here isn't just high... it's already happened to this exact merchandise.


And with the blockchain permanently recording this stage of those coin's provenance - I'm wondering whether owning them is going to solve or cause problems for someone later... "That's a Silk Road bitcoin!!!" (I wonder if "Real Satoshi Bitcoins" will one day be worth many times their "face value" like Confederate Half Dollars?)


If my wallet contains 10 bitcoins, and I somehow end up with a Satoshi bitcoin, don't I now have 11 bitcoins that are all alike? When I go to spend one bitcoin, how do you know if it's the Real Satoshi one or if it's one of my others?


Coins have history, but coins spent together gets merged (and partially spent coins get split).




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