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>In the United States I can write, or say, any number I choose to.

Nope, you can't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

Edit: About an unhosted wallet being a clear case of freedom of speech because it can be encoded as text; even if it was, what are you expressing? The intent to evade cryptotaxes?

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I am well aware of these, of course, and they have not been tested at the supreme court where they would fail.

You'll note that one of the numbers in question[1] is published, in full, on the wikipedia page that you link to.

[1] 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

That one was everywhere at the time, it's still a trade secret, but utterly unenforceable. As you say, it's one number, Wikipedia is not publishing all of them for a reason.

I think you are making a pretty big assumption that it would fail in the supreme court. It's not like the supreme court has abolished asset forfeiture either.

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