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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Could there be a law on stolen bitcoins?
by
JasonXG
on 20/11/2016, 16:09:20 UTC
Could there be a law on stolen bitcoins? What if there would be a law punishing those who steal bitcoins and those people behind scam sites? And if so, is it necessary to have such law? I'm just wondering, if there would be such law about stolen bitcoins, it could be a big relief to us bitcoin users. But then, there are so many questions and issues that goes with this ideal that makes me skeptical about it.  Huh Undecided

It does not matter what you steal. Of you steal it's stolen and it means the owner no longer has it and the thief does. There already are laws against this but scammers have always been hard to catch and you habe to prove your theory is correct when exposing a thief. Since bitcoin can't be traced to people with much ease finding stolen bitcoin is near impossible. That does not mean however that the thief escapes the long arms of the law though.