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Hearn and Satoshi Correspondence Part 2

April 25, 2009 by bitcoincash

From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Date: Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:30 PM
To: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>

Hi Satoshi,

I just read the following wiki page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chargeback

which claims that “U.S. debit card holders are guaranteed reversal
rights by Federal Reserve Regulation E under the Electronic Funds
Transfer Act. Similar rights extend globally pursuant to the rules
established by the corresponding card association or bank network.”

The “Electronic Funds Transfer Act” sounds awfully generic, do you
think it’d apply to BitCoin? If so, would the inability to do
chargebacks risk making it illegal?

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From: Satoshi Nakamoto <satoshin@gmx.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:11 AM
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>

I am not a lawyer and I can’t possibly answer that. I suppose if the law applies to a bank or financial institution or other intermediary, then it would not apply since there is no bank involved, only two parties trading directly with each other, as they would in person with cash or barter with physical commodities.

Bitcoin is fundamentally designed to be able to do non-reversible transactions, and there certainly are applications that need that.

If someone wants the possibility of chargeback, they can use an escrow transaction, which isn’t implemented yet but will be one of the next things. For instance, a transaction can be written to designate a third party to decide whether it is returned if the payer does not release it, with auto-release after a number of days. I’ll implement a more basic form of escrow first, but the network infrastructure includes a predicate language that can express any number of options.

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