Too glib I suppose, I just meant that if the coins are "out there" they're not actually recoverable, are they? If a bunch of sand falls out of my hand on the beach, those grains didn't disappear but I'm never getting them back again. Then there's the very real question of whether it actually is theft. I would argue no, in the sense that downloading a song isn't theft.

You play in dirt, you get dirty. You want an unregulated purely digital currency with irrevocable transactions, you know it's going to sting if you lose some of it.