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Can one own a shape? Locks have shown that knowing the right shape can let you in any door, so either knowing a shape is access to a property, or locks don't really prevent access.

The capability to control something is not the same as the legitimate right to control something.

If knowing is owning then stealing becomes impossible, because bitcoin don't know who owns (knows) a key. You need a 3rd party.

> then stealing is impossible

Uh don’t forget that Big Media had altered the definition of stealing such that your statement is now wrong. Stealing (as in “don’t steal a movie”) no longer implies you’re depriving anyone of the thing you stole, and now just means you’ve made a copy of a thing someone owns.

if you can just know the shape of a key to a lock, do you now own the contents of the thing being locked up?