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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Any way to block usage of stolen coins?
by
Jimmy Crypto
on 01/06/2019, 21:47:42 UTC
Let`s us say that a exchange got hacked, Would there be anyway to ban those bitcoins? like blacklist the stolen coins so they cannot be used on the network? I know about going back in time with consensus of the network to a earlier block or forking and using that new chain, but could you just not ban the stolen coins?  I mean make a way to do that?

If the new address was known, exchanges could blacklist the address. But eventually, the culprit could find a way to offload the coins.