One of the so-called features or benefits of bitcoin is the lack of any reverse transactions. But in many respects this is a great failing. Wouldn't it be better that if you voluntarily identify you as a legal entity holding a wallet address and that if you did not authorise a transaction (i.e. it was stolen or the goods weren't delivered) that there is a method to reverse that transaction?
What if you could submit that a transaction was illegal to the network and for a miners fee of say 10%, the transaction could be reversed by consensus? And that for addresses that are less trusted that becomes automatic but for highly trusted or fully identified addresses that goes to arbitration by one of many authorities/group of people to determine the validity?
To me, the KEY feature for bitcoin is the de-centralisation and limited quantity of units. But we need traditional services that the financial institutions currently provide for it to be useful. One feature is reverse transactions. without it is a hinderance to progress and why it exists to begin with.
Many scammers on this board I'm sure will happily protest to the idea. It doesn't work to their benefit. Is there any work being done on reverse-transactions in bitcoin?