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Re: If MtGox can ident the Bitcoins, why not fix it?
by
mgburks77
on 25/02/2014, 18:55:39 UTC
Back to the missing Bitcoins and the original question.  Identify the Bitcoins and stop them in their tracks.  Whether double spent or stolen, mine are mine and if MtGox sent them to someone else that's theft.

You're not a newbie based on the post count... you should know by now that what you suggest is impossible. Even if it was possible, it would not be fair: The "illegal" bitcoins may have been part of hundreds of transactions after leaving Gox. Those transactions may be totally normal trades between people who had no idea that you would later declare their money illegal. Who are you to say those trades are now void?

Who am I?  the rightful owner of those Bitcoins.

No, bitcoins are fungible. That means one coin is exactly the same as another.

If you had title for ownership for particular coins it would no longer be fungible currency as each bitcoin would have a different title for ownership. Bitcoins no longer interchangeable unless transaction is just like buying a house with transfer of title. .