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Hello, just as the subject says, did anyone ever get some bitcoin deposited to their wallet by an anonymous address without a reason?
If yes, what is the reason according to you? Just by mistake or for some strange reason?

I haven't, I am till waiting for the day someone sends me $1m by accident.

Maybe you have joined some airdrop, or won some bitcoins if you are gambling on some site, could be faucets, or someone simply made mistake when typing address and sent you some free BTCBTCBTCBTC .. There are 2 ways to go from there(if you think its random person), you can embrace it. Or you can try to find person with sent address and return them because they made mistake, everything depends of you :)

i received some but dont know where it came from was a very miner amount of bitcoin that time but it could be like $100 now.

It happened to me years back. I don't remember how much but it was just some cents. I have never been able to understand correctly but it was a method to beg money. This stuff didn't work for long as it's stopped quickly.
Or maybe someone dreaming to spam the network

Get into the top 10 wealthiest addressees club and you're going to enjoy some of dust coming your way.

https://blockchain.info/address/1HQ3Go3ggs8pFnXuHVHRytPCq5fGG8Hbhx

There was a time when blockchain address labeling was used for spam so people would spam dust transactions to get attention.
Also I remember when the FBI seized the SR coins

https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/4/4803732/someone-found-the-fbis-bitcoin-wallet-silk-road
https://blockchain.info/address/1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX?offset=0&filter=0

I think that if you joined an airdrop or gambled on some site you should know it! How could you find the random person?
By the way, didn't get any BTC on my wallet, just asking!

Sorry, didn't get you... You mean that if you have one of the wealthiest addresses people will send you BTC?



Yes, to send a message is a reason to give away some satoshi... And sending it to the Police sounds a lot of fun!
But what if there is no message... I think the only reason then is by mistake.
The spam sender... well, they got what they deserved: their satoshis maybe now aren't worth the spam!

I personally haven't. However, there have been several cases of people who have, and I don't think they ever found out who sent them or what they did with them.
I've seen a few other threads about this here on Bitcointalk. Such things usually occur due to typing errors, which happen very very rarely because who the hell types addresses anyway?

I hope such will happen to me,That is called divine mistake,will be so happy to have such

A person who would receive a reasonable amount of Bitcoins by mistake has to be very lucky, because as someone mentioned earlier, such mistakes occur very rarely because people all the time copy paste their Bitcoin addresses from a place to another. So getting a mistake in an address when you copy paste it has very low chances. However, if someone types the address totally by himself, somewhere where he cannot paste it, then such mistakes can occur, but it is not really likely to happen, that is why there aren't a lot of cases like this. I myself never heard anyone saying they received some Bitcoin to their address anonymously which is atleast over $100.

Not my proudest moment... But when i started with crypto world... Thats the first thing that i have done, manually started writing down address... First with all lowercase letters, "Address Invalid", after that i changed to combo of using lower and uppercases, again "Address Invalid" even IF with my eyes i wrote down everything good. After that i was like "Why i just simply dont copy address"... VOILA it worked :D

Yes.  Since the richest addresses are sometimes publicised, it's likely that someone will randomly decide to send BTC there.

It's primarily a joke, since the small amount of funds that they send there is completely trivial to the person or group that owns that address.  It actually can inconvenience them due to the fees.

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The chance of someone sending to an address which is controlled by someone but not shown anywhere on the Internet is negligible.  So if people do receive funds, it's most likely just an error that someone made when viewing an address online.

Think of it like fan mail. Or more like hate mail. A lot of it with no use that you have to delete or burn piece by piece and it will take time and money to get rid of it.

Because of the way bitcoin works that dust will probably cost you a lot more than it is worth.
Since we're talking about the FBI address this is how it looked when the coins had to be moved:

https://blockchain.info/tx/7ecad9a3e67bebda52c0bdafb53863938b86e30e58eb179aec747903b50baa2d

At the current prices, sending that tx would have cost you around 700$.
This while a normal tx with 2 inputs 2 outputs is around 3$.

Or this is another example:
https://blockchain.info/address/1H5En81woNBoPJyn7ZK9M7dWw7icQUrw75
This time is dust collected by faucets

If I can remember it, this has been asked here in forum before but I haven't seen someone has received a balance from anyone anonymous. Bitcoin wallet addresses are very unique so I doubt it that someone will send a bitcoin by accident. And also there is a malware that has been spread too, that copies the hackers wallet address when you are about to send bitcoin that results for the sender to send bitcoin to wrong address which is the hacker's.

No.  I have not.  If I did I would be concerned and start to see if the address has been blacklisted or identified in anyway to illegal activity.  Every transaction that occurs on the blockchain is stored in the blockchain and can be seen by anyone.  So if a hacker or blackmailer sends you coins to your Bitcoin address it may potentially be blacklisted by association or even worse law enforcement may even trace your Bitcoin address to a physical address. 

Most of those who receive mysterious bitcoins on their wallets are because of this kind of purposes:

1) They won a giveaway, and probably they did not even know that.
2) The sender sent to a wrong address, maybe they tipped a "0" instead of a "o" (it often happens)
3) Someone putted their bitcoin address on a porn site and someone is tipping them, lol.

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But no, i have never received this kind of "tips" because i dont use to post my bitcoin address in random sites, i am always using a multi-sig wallet only for my own protection, i prefer to be a little bit more safe instead of letting everyone know how much do i have inside my wallet.

Its pretty hard to miss an address and end up sending it to somebody else. The odds are so low it'll probably never happen in our lifetimes.

If you receive some bitcoin randomly, it's probably a payment you forgot you were going to receive or something along those lines.

Erm, i'm patiently waiting for this ;D ;D

Can someone make that mistake already  :-\ ::)

I've had large amounts of Bitcoin sent to my wallet though that extra money couldn't get sent because it was a glitch in the wallet.

Maybe a wrong send if bitcoin. I think the sender made a mistake on putting the wallet address and it luckily goes to you. You should be lucky for the sender's mistake.

You might be lucky if not here in the forum sends you bitcoin buy if the manager sent you the wrong amount of bitcoin you really have to give it back because you might get a negative trust on that.

Does this happen on luck basis. I hope I’ll be given some but if the sender ask for a refund and it was accidentally done, so I take the initiative as a responsible bitcoin user to do it right. Sent back to them because it is a proof of being a person after all, money can’t buy dignity and lastly we won’t make our lives even better if we spending bitcoin/money that obviously we get in this way.

I did not hear anything some thing like this hope fully i am the lucky person who will accidentally get 100 bitcoin straight to my wallet. If that will happen i will build an orphanage and bring all street kids in our community and give them a chance to go to school.

Never happened to me but I welcome it!

Never happened to me either !!

I haven't receive but I am willing to wait for that to happen even just 1 BTC it will be a big help to me.