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They can be overridden by the judge in the same exact way cash transactions are: by forcing the offender to make a transfer in the amount that they owe, and/or selling off their other property to pay that debt.

The thing about crypto and ownership is that the blockchain is not the final arbiter of legal ownership, and that qualifier matters in a lot of cases.



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