Imagine, someone lost crypto worth about $500 USD and he took legal action, reporting to police, had a lawyer and waited everything to be processed that took so much time and at the end he realized that he has lost more than the $500 cause he needed to pay the expenses during the search of his stolen money.
Haha, +1 to this. Sadly this is what happens in almost every case. What's gone, is gone (in crypto world, yeah, that's why it's called crypto). Btw it's so funny, these guys want anonymity but at the same time want to find stolen coins and even get them back.
Bitcoin and the way transactions are sent are far different from bank transactions. On bank transactions, if any mistake happens, you can call to them and fix it with them but in bitcoin, whom are you going to call? If you are capable of recovering your stolen cryptos, then recover all of them, you will be a billionaire.
I thought you'd give me some merits by saying +1
Well, people should be aware of everything that may appear during the proccess of decentralization.
In some cases it's not necessarily about getting your money back, but about justice. I would gladly cover the legal expenses to see hacker/thief be forced to pay a hefty fine or be sent to prison to rot for a while.
It's not fair to have someone like that enjoy the money you worked for. If people were to ignore reporting small theft amounts it basically means that the thieves win and have even more incentive to steal only smaller amounts.
I'm not trying to say stealing money is right thing to do but I would never pay more than what I have lost just to take revenge. They just don't deserve my money more than what they have stolen.