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Re:The Mirrortable by rosndo on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @12:25PM (#29715795)
> What guarantees that, having done an irrevocable funds transfer, you get something back?

How is that at all different from a regular bank transfer?

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Re:The Mirrortable by bradleybuda on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:17PM (#29716291)
Because if a regular bank transfer is erroneous, it can be reversed, usually via the cooperation of the banks in question and in the worst case via the legal system, which understands and is empathetic to nuance and human fallibility.
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Re:The Mirrortable by rosndo on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @02:55PM (#29717312)
Important to note that this is only true for domestic transfers, and even then it’s not necessarily an easy task https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/dec/07/i-lost-my-1930...

Also this is only true for erroneous transfers, fraud puts you in a completely different situations.

And in any case, erroneous transfers seem like an easy problem to solve. No? Cryptocurrency addresses have already mostly solved typos with checksums.

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