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Could the Bitcoin network freeze someone's assets?

In the short term, yes. If a government, or other entity, could convince 51% of mining power to ignore blocks with particular transactions in them, the rest of the miners would quickly learn that they ...
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Could the Bitcoin network freeze someone's assets?

Miners generally have no clue about which person owns which Bitcoin. Miners in other countries also mine blocks successfully from time to time and so your hypothetical snarky businessman would ...
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