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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What gives a person exclusive ownership over a BTC?
by
reed07
on 29/01/2014, 00:38:43 UTC
If you leave a bag with cash out in the wild it's your faut that is got stolen. No one is responsble to refound you. You can't proclaim a  dollar bill yours. Same applies for bitcoin.

So you are claiming that people who dictionary attack brainwallets are not morally or legally responsible (i.e. they aren't stealing)?

Of course he's a thief. But nobody is responsible to refund the victim.
(Except the thief, but it'd be almost impossible to track him).

But what gives the first person the exclusive right to use that address?