They can do that but they can’t keep ballots safe from interference...
The ransomware that hit the organization I was with briefly, demanded payment in bitcoin.
I tried to alert them to all the security dangers and risks. And their bad practices. And was berated for it by the manager.
He wouldn’t know proper I/T practices if they dumped it on him from a bucket loader.
How does one seize bitcoins?
Do they waterboard someone for a password?
neither trust nor value
My reading of this article indicates that it was not seized from the Silk Road guy. It was seized from some hacker who stole it from the Silk Road guy. No honor among modern thieves. I’d imagine that the hacker who stole it from Silk Road could be a valuable asset.