Freezing coins (theft) is right up there as giant red flags for those of us in Bitcoin who value its *unconfiscatable* property

The “it might damage the price” reasoning confirms that these change proposals are not coming from protecting the very features that value actually derives from

As @Kai, and more recently @Arceris in his Bitcoin Magazine essay have highlighted, the legal systems of the world are slowly converging on Bitcoin as property .. and there’s NO wiggle room in the *action* of spending someone else’s coins (no matter how long they’ve been “dormant”) being theft

The idea that dormancy abdicates ownership is right up there with the framing that saving is hoarding