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   Nick,   
      
   > ... can leave the owner of the money faced with a legally impossible   
   > task to recover it.   
      
   True.   
      
   But you are describing a situation which has large parallels with what I   
   did.  *You* do not have the money, someone else has.   And contrary to a   
   bank, a person *can* just renege (for several reasons, not all volontary,   
   and some of them fully legal) on his agreement to give you your money back.   
      
   And there are the differences: with crypto-currency the proof of you having   
   it is destroyed, leaving you out in the cold.  With that person (or company)   
   you described you still have the proof of it being owed to you, its just   
   that the other party cannot honor his agreement anymore (but maybe someone   
   else has been payed to take over that responsibility in such cases).   
      
   Also, in the case of that crypto currency you expect to *have* (be the owner   
   of) the money.  In the second case you actually gave it to somebody else   
   (taking a risk in the hope of a nice return).   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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