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		damian2000 on April 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Status of the first million Bitcoins Sorry I'm a complete Bitcoin noob, but is there some way for you to recover them via their transaction ID, or get the seller to re-issue them to you?

SolarNet on April 14, 2013 [–]

Bitcoin is decentralized, no one can reissue bit coins because no one runs bitcoin. If he lost his private keys (his "wallet") than he looses all of the coins associated with it.

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