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Interesting: while "plausible deniability" features in hardware wallets work better if their use is NOT very known & popular, solutions like CSV timelocks can probably mitigate this stuff, but only if their use is higly known, popular, standard, default (because if the...
...doesn't really believe you have most of your funds locked, w/ CSV or CLTV or multisig or a combination of the above, then he will torture you anyway, and you will just have given up the ability to make him stop Givin him what he wants [which is in general an ill-advised...
...choice anyway, since it may helps you locally, but it incentives & enables this kind of attacks globally]). It would be nice to see fund-locks as a default/standard wallet feature...but until it IS, the first people to use them are in more risk, not less. This is not a...
...Bitcoin-specific problem, though. It was the samme for bank safes & for armored trucks. It takes time for standards to emerge & become adopted/credible enough to act as a real protection for people involved. In the meanwhile, NOT talking about your bitcoins is a good advice.
(*in the second tweet subject is missing: "if the attacker")
(*giving, not Givin...I don't know who the hell is Givin and why does my autocorrect chosed to bother him).
