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Could the community as a whole black list a bitcoin address so they could at least not spend the money they stole? Are you able to track the history of who was

Could the community as a whole black list a bitcoin address so they could at least not spend the money they stole? Are you able to track the history of who was a previous owner of the bitcoin? Seems like a major issue. If these hacks keep happening thieves are going to own more bitcoin they the rest of the community.

ahoka 9y ago
That would require appending to the consensus rules, which is effectively a hard fork.
- michaelsbradley 9y ago
  Tezos allows for blockchain consensus rule/s to evolve over time, which is a pretty cool idea, though the project seems to be struggling with management problems after having raised hundreds of millions in USD.
- fauigerzigerk 9y ago
  Why would it be a hard fork? Anyone can freely decide not to buy bitcoin from specific addresses without any change to the software running the blockchain nodes.
rafiki6 9y ago
See the problem is, how can you trust the claim of coins being stolen to begin with? A common scenario would be I buy something with the coins and then I decide to claim they were stolen thus making the coins useless.