One of the most important feature of cryptocurrency is its being irreversible. One the coin is sent, the only way for it to be back to the sender is if the receiver will do the same thing in reverse. Now, in cases of hacks, scams and frauds, it means that you better forget what you already lost as there is no way for you to recover the lost coins.
In other words, once you click the send button there is no turning back. I know that a lot of us are actually considering this a major advantage of Bitcoin or any cryptocurrency for that matter because unlike PayPal there can be no refund requests to happen.
Therefore when you are a victim of a theft, expect no one to be able to help you in recovering the coins. As one author said it, the bitcoin genie cannot be put back into the blockchain bottle.
I am wondering, can we not devise an effective and special technology that can be utilize in case of hacks or frauds? Given the advances of cryptocurrency and the blockchain we are experiencing right now, is it even possible?
Isn't it like a mindful safer option ??
If this same thing started working for banks and stuff they will start using it to do frauds instead of preventing them.
It's people you are talking about ; they will use it for bad practices first and foremost and then that irreversible scams and frauds you are talking about is something that we can avoid by personally checking thoroughly everything.
Also we have to click like 3 confirms to send our coins , we could stop for every and then see everything again.