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January 30, 2014, 08:18:22 PM

The U.S. government confiscated DPR's Bitcoins.

I think you mean Ross Ulbricht's coins?  Poor password security.

So should it come to your stash you'd be much smarter and more secure, eh? And you're impervious to a $5 wrench?

There are tools currently available to make bitcoins extremely hard to get. There are also tools available which can prevent you from accessing your own coins, rendering the $5 wrench useless.

In other words, yes.

By the way, it helps if you don't brag about running the world's largest underground online drug bazaar (while living in the US) on major financial news sites. Wink

That's not how the idea behind the 'wrench' method works.

Once the wrench is being applied to you, the assumption is that the cost for you is so high (possibly: death) and the cost for them is so low (5$ wrench) that you will do *anything* in your power to give up the secret.

Even if you set up a system that makes it impossible for you to actually give up the key, the cost for you to set up the 'cannot reveal' method is substantially higher (death, no coins) than the cost for them to apply the 'wrench' method (5$ wrench, no coins)