Reply to post: Re: If the transfer had been cryptocurrency

Woman forced to sell 4-bed house after crypto exchange wrongly refunded $7.2m

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Re: If the transfer had been cryptocurrency

As far as it wants really - the law has primacy over technical limitations. If the court says you have to do something, not being able to do it because of technical reasons is not an excuse that will get you out of it. This is one of the big challenges with blockchain. If a court orders you to delete a record the answer "I can't, its on an immutable distributed ledger" does not absolve you of the responsibility to comply with the court order. If you do not comply with the court order, you can be imprisoned until you do (well technically imprisoned for a limited term as punishment, then told to comply on release, and if you don't comply then you get imprisoned again).

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon