<p>A 'bitcoin chargeback' is defined at <a href="http://www.bitcoinchargeback.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitcoinchargeback.com/</a> as: A mechanism to facilitate the reversal of a prior outbound transfer of bitcoin funds, so it sounds like somebody may be working on it; however surely such a system would require some form of arbitration / adjudication, possibly distributed or else the chargeback would always be at the discretion of the merchant.</p>

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2014-03-05T18:06:03.240Z
Such a bad idea... the whole reason merchants like bitcoin in the first place is because of reduced risk. Adding chargebacks would accomplish nothing but adding risk to the transaction, which is going to ultimately make everything more expensive.
Yitzhak
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2014-03-05T22:39:01.077Z
@DoctorEvil because of reduced risk? How risky does this sound to you: Somebody bought a PC from your shop for 2BTC yesterday when BTC = 1000$. But when you woke up in 3 hours BTC lost 80% of its value and now 200$. You have no idea how much money your assets would be a month. This sound extremely risky to me.
Salvador Dali
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2014-03-05T12:15:01.307Z
2014-03-05T12:15:01.307Z
BitcoinMaven
<p>Right, reduced risk. Even when you count the occasional drop in bitcoin price, we're still looking at an average, consistent, 300% stable increase in the value of Bitcoin over the last year, all things considered. The majority of merchants are extremely risk averse, and use Bitpay, which absorbs both the risk and the reward for the transaction. Adding chargebacks to the protocol, would accomplish the same thing it's done with credit cards. It'll make merchants more reluctant to take it, and it will create a new class of fraud. This is established historic precedent. It's not like we don't know what will happen if we do this.</p>

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2014-03-06T13:34:25.257Z
2014-03-06T13:34:25.257Z
Yitzhak
<p>QuantumQrack: the answer is no, it's supporting the "payment protocol", which is a way of attaching some extra data to a transaction, such as a refund address. however, the refund is still up to the merchant to agree to give you; once you've given money to the merchant, you can't take it back without them giving it back to you.</p>

<p>Asked in #bitcoin on freenode.  This is the reply.</p>

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2013-11-18T13:23:59.843Z
I think some of rumors have started as a result of this conversation: 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128442.0
Charles Hoskinson
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2013-11-18T12:52:25.177Z
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QuantumQrack
<p>I've heard there was a proposal to support some form of chargeback in an upcoming release of the Bitcoin Protocol. My first question is this rumor factually accurate and if so how will it be implemented?</p>

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Bitcoin Supporting Chargebacks
Charles Hoskinson
# Bitcoin Supporting Chargebacks

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-18)

I've heard there was a proposal to support some form of chargeback in an upcoming release of the Bitcoin Protocol. My first question is this rumor factually accurate and if so how will it be implemented?

**Tags:** merchants, chargeback


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### Answer by username_4 on 2013-11-18. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

username_4: the answer is no, it's supporting the "payment protocol", which is a way of attaching some extra data to a transaction, such as a refund address. however, the refund is still up to the merchant to agree to give you; once you've given money to the merchant, you can't take it back without them giving it back to you.

Asked in #bitcoin on freenode. This is the reply.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I think some of rumors have started as a result of this conversation:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128442.0  

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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-03-05. Score: 0

A 'bitcoin chargeback' is defined at <http://www.bitcoinchargeback.com/> as: A mechanism to facilitate the reversal of a prior outbound transfer of bitcoin funds, so it sounds like somebody may be working on it; however surely such a system would require some form of arbitration / adjudication, possibly distributed or else the chargeback would always be at the discretion of the merchant.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: Such a bad idea... the whole reason merchants like bitcoin in the first place is because of reduced risk. Adding chargebacks would accomplish nothing but adding risk to the transaction, which is going to ultimately make everything more expensive.  
> **username_3**: @DoctorEvil because of reduced risk? How risky does this sound to you: Somebody bought a PC from your shop for 2BTC yesterday when BTC = 1000$. But when you woke up in 3 hours BTC lost 80% of its value and now 200$. You have no idea how much money your assets would be a month. This sound extremely risky to me.  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2014-03-06. Score: 0

Right, reduced risk. Even when you count the occasional drop in bitcoin price, we're still looking at an average, consistent, 300% stable increase in the value of Bitcoin over the last year, all things considered. The majority of merchants are extremely risk averse, and use Bitpay, which absorbs both the risk and the reward for the transaction. Adding chargebacks to the protocol, would accomplish the same thing it's done with credit cards. It'll make merchants more reluctant to take it, and it will create a new class of fraud. This is established historic precedent. It's not like we don't know what will happen if we do this.


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