Let me start that this might sound stupid, since I have no idea about any technical thing about bitcoins, programming, etc, but I was reading about the guy who lost over 1000 bitcoins and came up with this. You tell me if it's posible, realistic or it's not. Here we go:
Someone creates a business called X, and what it does is the following: once you are robbed, you send them the adress and number of btcs stolen. Since this moment, the ddbb from X monitors the blockchain from those btcs, adding each adress to the ddbb. At the same time, exchanges, bitcoin shops, and gateway payments are connected to that ddbb, so since the moment they receive btcs from an adress that is on the ddbb would raise a red flag and freeze the btcs.
Obviously, since someone reports would have 24/48 hours to prove they were stolen ( screenshots, police reports, etc). And also, for a business to be connected to that ddbb would add value to their work.
Good idea? Stupid?
Wanting to have the stolen coins returned would open a huge space for fraud.
One of the beautiful features to bitcoin is that it is YOUR MONEY and nobody can decide to revert your transactions.
Unfortunately, we're so much used to be nannied by banks, authorities and insurancies, that instead of enjoying the freedom to actually own money, we seek refuge with someone "bigger" while forgetting that even those "big ones" have failed many times.
Instead of looking up to "authorities", everybody just look down to your hands/computers/mobiles and PREVENT from having your bitcoins stolen.
If you want to own this money, take the responsibility or go back to your local bank with insurance.
tl;dr
there are numerous advises with long to-do's to secure your btc holdings
OR JUST get a trezor once on sales and skip those to-do's
A shameless selfpromo I know
but this or any other good hardware wallets will change the current security around bitcoin.
