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When you receive bitcoins, you literally have no idea where it's coming from. Yesterday, someone gave me 1m satoshies, and I have no idea why. I'm a member of many faucets; but I have never collected that many satoshies.

And I looked at the payout wallet of the campaign I'm in (thinking they were paying me early, but surprised I 'made' that many posts and got paid for them), but nada; payments, from what I can see, have not yet been made.

So thanks to whomever gave me that amount of satoshies, I dearly appreciate it. :)

probably some one decide to pay you for some service or giveaways you can't ever know /remember :D
but even seems really hard receive "free" 10mbtc (or 1million of satoshi) ... did you search on google the address? maybe you can understand what is the service / user linked ....

I don't know how to look up the address. I'm using coinbase.

you have a tx id?
can you show a link from blockchain? or even if you have only your address post here and we can see the history of that payment and try to understand where this 0.01 btc come from ;)

Op, in most cases you can conduct additional search. I am not sure how coinbase wallet works, since I am not their user, but there should be some menu where you can get txid or...
you can just paste you address, into any of blochains explorers, like blockchain.info there you will be able to track your payment further and maybe catch something.

This actually happened to me also, 500k satoshi was sent to me and I was unsure where it came from. At the time I forgot to note the address it was coming from so I am unsure about what address it was from either.

Here's screenshot from coinbase:

http://i67.tinypic.com/64fdyg.png

And here's the chain info (page I was directed to when I clicked the 'advanced info' link):

https://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/90d757372e90a094d4c36849f533bc954debc2e0f8c5559e55ad87954e012a56

From what this newbie understands, it looks like one other wallet received coins (at least in the same transaction mine was in): 1JdwpCU31pENpgWh546riycvp14GvpddH3

My address is: 1A3iatNZz9Eraw1qNdFc9nT5febR7K9Ym4


I'll try doing that, thank you :)

Congrats on getting the tip, someone must of considered that you helped them with something when they decided to tip you.

If you're interested to find that person, you could try to go to https://www.coinbase.com/accounts/primary   and click  "Wallet address" on the right side.
You will see your deposit address, then copy that and enter it to https://blockchain.info/  (in the search bar on top of the site).
You will then see all transactions in and out of your wallet (but not account to account transactions within CB, if there is any)

EDIT:

Address 1CkwTJL93UKonQKZsMLLyGXYCXR5o5JgLe from which you received the payment sent out (and received) many transactions, and
to me it smells like cloud mining/ponzi (just a speculation tho)

Oh, wow that's very helpful, thank you, I'll try that!

Though I do wonder what I did to deserve the tip, heh...! I'll never know. It was a nice surprise though.

Oh you seem really lucky to get free bitcoin from random user. Even amount is small but as that is free money, congratulation have some coffee with it bro.

Probably a spam transaction. Look at blockchain.info to see if there is a message attached to the transaction advertising some (probably) shady business.

Or someone wants to troll you by sending a 1 satoshi transaction that will never be confirmed and will lock you address for some time

Look few posts above , 0.0104 BTC (almost 7$) isn't a spam transactions for sure. If it would be true, many people would love some "spam" transactions as well lol.
Looking at it now, i don't think it's random, more likely OP was part of something that he forgot about, and now he got paid for it (maybe reached automatic withdraw limit ?!)

That is cool to have some random Bitcoin from someone you don't know, I was thinking about an automatic payout on some multipool but it seems OP haven't experienced mining in multipool yet.  More probably it is a tip but icant find any address from his link, I even think it is from some sort of refferal but the referral on his sigcampaign is from the default referral. Oh well might be from someone whom you helped out.

well one of the address that were used in your link to the tx leads to this wallet https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/0001a36396af725d/addresses and it looks like it can be some kind of service based on the way it pays out, maybe even a dice site or something like that maybe you won something and forgot about it.

My memory is bad, but I don't think the high withdrawl is the case, I don't play many sites with that (I only play one, and its not with this address).

It could have been a raffle/lottery though. It is very likely I entered something two weeks ago and forgot about it... I sincerely do not remember though.


Thanks for your help-- how did you find that?! I looked and looked for that info!

Edit: found it now. I see what you mean. Hmm... Well, I'll likely never know why/how I got this, lol.

BTC is still cool though!


True, but the only dicesite that I've been regularly playing is Freebitco.in, and I lost over 100k the other day, not won. And withdrawl there is set to manual.

I suppose it must have been a tip or some forgotten giveaway I won.

Wow ! I wish someone would send me some BTC as a tip too.  That is so rare that some unknown people will tip you 1 million satoshi.  Maybe you have done good and they reward you.  People sometimes tip randomly when they feel good about the recent event happen to them.

oh wow, i think you might have earned that million satoshi because it is really rare that people send it to wrong person, also i think you might know where it is coming from some times because people might tell that it is their address online

Consiedr it as a nice gift. So far I have never recieved something like that. Maybe somen+body sent it on purpose, it's very, very rare that something like this happens accidentaly.

To me such thing have never happened so far. People are very aware nowadays to not send random amount of bitcoin to strangers on the Internet. That error has a probability to happen 1 in 10000000000000000000000000000 which is negative probability that means chances are high it will never happen. I think you have been part of some website and you forgot totally about it and now you are receiving this transaction but judging from the wallet starting  with 1Cw it surely is some cloud mining for me.

the feeling when you receiving bitcoin in your wallet is very nice, when someone tip you X amount is awesome ! used to have that feeling every week when i was in PBmining , then suddenly the ponzi collapsed  :'( no more weekly payments
but now days where bitcoin price is no one is tipping randomly or sending bitcoins to wrong addresses! so ...

Happy days, i wish i was receiving random sats from people i dont know....lol be happy  ;D

It was an existing experience my friend, but you should not think that it is so frequent in the bitcoin world, especially because most people here is looking how to increase their coins instead of how to give them. Perhaps you should compensate this generous donation and give me some satoshis :)

There might be 2 reasons:
You deserve it from somewhere you forgot long ago
You are gifted by a friend who wants to surprize you
The second is not probable since the gifter claims his tips and earns respect.
I think the first is what it seems

Yeah... probably true. Someone said it likely came from a cloud mine because of what the address started with, but I never invested anywhere (too many scams).

So strange... But I'll certainly have to pay it forward to a random person one day when my own wallet's established.

thats awesome man. its so rare to have that kind of incident. i hope it would happen again to any of us. a 1mbtc is a lot for us and it is hard to earned. maybe you just got your luck and its a nice thing bro.  :D :D

Maybe those satoshi came from your friend or anyone who likes your service and tip you for showing some appreciation. If you really dont have idea whose the one give you taht amount then  you have to mind after all just be thankful for an easy blessing  ;D Recieving funds that you didnt expect cause to much more joy feeling.

As others have said this isn't something where someone just came up with your address somehow and sent you some Bitcoins. There has to be some way they found it. Maybe it was someone on the forum that liked what you posted, maybe it's another website you have your address posted on. Maybe it's something you signed up for and forgot about a few months ago. Keep watching the address that sent the Bitcoins to you to see what else they do.

Yeah i was thinking the same as you, I guess op gain an appreciation of the things he did. Or maybe OP never sign an investment site that has wd automatic, but in spite of that lucky for you :)

10mBTC*


Ooh... Funny story... https://directbet.eu/BetStatus.cshtml?BetID=1Eb8oALwvEFdZNrifVThitwiHYrDxiLoNa   ^{[permalink] (https://archive.is/mM3zH)}

Wrong address, huh? I actually just noticed that the bet hadn't returned unto me my much-wanted bitcoins. Well, it was supposed to be actually a personal bet but looks like I forgot to switch the address for my anonymous tip. I actually don't expect it to be returned - such is the hand of fate (and my eyes skipping over the address) but it would be nice for perhaps the original wager back :P


Via the transaction (https://blockchain.info/tx/c505a8dd530db63db47ebf9c357ec0544e4cafc5ceac7522054313eb391f517b), in case any sig-spammers try to reply by saying "proof you sent?" here it is, my friends.


Well these days I'd better slow down with my betting, huh?

Edit: Alright now stop spamming. Jesus, what a cesspool.

Well. That's good. You've earned it. But be careful if you want to invest your balance. Because scammers are nearby as always.  1 Mil Satoshi is big though. But the important thing is, You are learning.

There. All and all the Bitcoin community is still a great community. The members are always willing to help and to tip someone. You got lucky; it was also great to see you coming here offering you thanks to whoever gave you that tip! :-*

Not really surprising. If you spend a lot of time on the Internet, chances are you have clicked into a website that gives you 1m satoshi. We usually just ignore stuffs online that we think are a scam or too good to be true. Maybe you signed up on one of those kind of offers or maybe a faucet site that you are in is giving out bonus.

I think you have surfed the net a lot and just can't remember where did you get the bonus.

its always good to spend it for good as well. if you want to receive surprises you may want to go to allcryptotalk.com they always give away just be responding to their contest. i was also surprise when i won something i didn't actually do something worth the price.

Getting 1m satoshi as bonus on websites is nearly impossible since no one would give too big bonuses i think. Maybe some of his friends or another person just accidentally send the amount to his address. Well it must be his lucky day and recieve that amount, In my entire life in bitcoin i didnt recieve even once. lol  

yeaah been there than that i don't know what will i do i love receiving bitcoins and seeing bitcoin from my wallet but it hurts me so much when im sending bitcoin to another address </3 but in coinbase i don't know how it works because i don't use coinbase , coinbase its change your wallet once you receive something right ?

Something similar happened to me. I invested some bitcoin in pyramining.com way back in 2012. I thought I had received all of my returns/earning from that site, the last payment being almost three years ago. Late last year I noticed that I received an unexpected 0.110 btc from an address I wasn't familiar with. I thought it was a random mistake. It wasn't until a few weeks after I received it that my curiosity got the better of me and made me try to find out where it came from and it was from the the old pyramining investment from a while ago.

Not completely impossible. If OP has been promoting his referral link all over the net, then maybe someone used his ref link and let's suppose that 10% is the affiliate bonus. If that someone did deposit 10m sats, then OP gets 1m sats.

Nevertheless, the chance of someone accidentally sending to OP's wallet still stands. Maybe the sender is aware that he's not getting back his money so he just ignored it.

Lucky you! Just as everyone has already said, you might have received it from some sites that you joined in and forgot about it since the chances of a single address receiving coins from a random person is a lot less than winning the grand lottery.

But then again, someone must have felt that you deserved to paid that amount for helping them maybe? I don't know. You don't know. We don't know.

Anyways, keep it and use it for good! Don't just start giving it away, multiply it first then when you feel that you have enough, pay it back to those in need!

Thanks for all the thoughts, info, help, and speculations. I'ma assume it's a tip; I don't plan on spending it all at once, and will only 'share the wealth' when I get to an amount that I'm satisfied with.

I'ma lock this topic now; it seems pointless to have floating around anymore.