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by alexanat 3137 days ago
This is one of the growing pains of bitcoin that will have to be worked out. You can send bitcoin to addresses that nobody holds the private keys to and those coins will be gone forever. There are likely already several hundred thousand or millions of bitcoin lost this way.

There is no reversal of a transaction, the ledger is immutable.

With all of that said, bitcoin was not created to solve crime.