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Can't the addresses with the money be marked as obsolete or something like that so no miner accepts transactions from them? Only 50%+1 need to agree on this, ri

• yieldcrv 3y ago
  two different concepts to explains separately but ultimately there are many roadblocks to that ever happening, which is something people find valuable about those kind of systems
• Drakim 3y ago
  Decentralization not only means that you need 50%+1 of miners to accept, but also that there isn't a centralized driving authority to kick-start banning initiatives like that.
• ezconnect 3y ago
  That's one of the main reason crypto is being promoted, freedom from central control.
• paulpauper 3y ago
  It can be labeled, but this does not stop the thief from moving it. Otherwise, the network would need to fork, which will never happen for somethign like this. Even if it did fork, he would still be left with pre-forked coins, which would be worth something. In the case of the Ethereum Dao hacker, the thief still got Ethereum Classic coins worth millions.