I assume that if country XXXXX recognised bitcoins as legal tender then they would be saying that a bitcoin was imbued with implicit (though probably not intrinsic) financial value.

If someone was to con you out of some of your bitcoins (e.g. by failing to provide agreed goods or services which you had paid for with bitcoins) within XXXXX's jurisdiction, then XXXXX's legal system would have to take the view that you had suffered an illegal financial loss, i.e. that you had been criminally defrauded. Beyond any criminal case that XXXXX's justice system might make against the fraudster, you could mount a civil case against the fraudster through XXXXX's legal system in an attempt to recoup your bitcoins.

So XXXXX effectively stands as a trusted(?) third party arbiter for resolution of disputes of bitcoin denominated trades within its jurisdiction; although it's worth bearing in mind that legal systems generally (and therefore probably XXXX's as well) will only take action against or in support of identifiable entities (I.e. individual people or registered companies/organisations) so if your bitcoin-based trade is (truly) anonymous then you probably can't expect to get any help from XXXXX's legal system.

I'm guessing that if a trade goes wrong at the moment (in any jurisdiction) and somebody effectively 'steals' your bitcoins, no jurisdiction recognises bitcoins as being money, and thus no legal system will consider you to have made a financial loss and they won't get involved.

I don't know what the legal status of bitcoins is in various places...in some places they might be considered to be *data* which belongs to you and thus somebody who steals your data may be considered to have committed a criminal act. In terms of trying to get financial restitution for your loss, you would have to convince the authorities that your (bitcoin) data had demonstrable financial value and thus that you had suffered financial loss from the loss of the data. Part of that might be in showing that you could have used your (bitcoin) data (I.e. Spent your bitcoins) in return for goods, services and/or an amount of legally recognised fiat currency and thus that your stolen bitcoins were worth that amount of financial value which ought to be returned to you. Good luck with that one!