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You’re mistaken, they usually can’t deal with it.

They’ll ask the other bank if they’d like to return the money, and that bank will maybe ask the recipient if they’d like to return the money.

The recipient doesn’t want to return the money? You’re SOL. You can go to court, but they can trivially evade civil action by transferring the money overseas.



Those are all things you can try, though. In crypto, again, the money just instantly disappears.


You could still appeal to the developers, it has been done successfully in the past.


Once.


Which indeed proves that it can be done.


Ok, you are definitely not arguing this is good faith any longer. Get lost.


What do you mean? If you can convince a sufficiently large share of the community, you can in fact roll back transactions.


This is a massively disingenuous argument, and you know it.




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