I've been reading a lot about the 1000 BTC bounty for cracking a range of private keys.
It made me think... Hypothetically, if some was able to crack a BTC address with key, Do they own the coin?
Been reading through the Bounty and had the good & evil pop up on my shoulder.
Beyond the ethical ramifications are there laws protecting you if someome randomly clones your private key?
How do you own a key?
I have studied some practice on stolen bitcoins and I think that if you are an ordinary user and your cryptocurrency is stolen using a phishing site, viros, deception on social networks and the like, then getting your coins back is practically impossible. The police will not return your coins because they will be spent quickly. Exchanges and projects prefer to pay bounty rewards to hackers from 5 to 20% and not contact the police.