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Chargeback

What crypto means by it

The card network's undo button. The issuer claws a payment back from the merchant on your behalf, sometimes months later. On-chain payments have no equivalent.

What you already know this as

The same word and the same process. It is the main consumer protection cards have that raw blockchain transfers do not.

Related terms

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