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Imagine one day you open your wallet and discover that you've received 10,000 Bitcoin by mistake from a stranger. What would you do?

Obviously I find out who mistakenly sent it to me, and return it.  :)   Otherwise I spend the rest of my life looking over my shoulder for taking half a billion dollars that I was not entitled to.

Why did you immediately think that it came from some dark web overload? It could have come from someone who bought Bitcoin early; I mean, they also have that much.

Neither of those can track you down for at least two years and you can hide somewhere safe.

Why did you immediately think that?   I would worry about anyone losing half a billion dollars.   Especially if I want to spend it and draw attention to myself. 

its not yours and for sure the one who owns that bitcoin will do anything to look for who received that amount ,  so extend your hands reaching for who have wrongly sent you that bitcoins and give them back or else your life might be in trouble and you don't know that this owner will  be generous to give you more than what you are asking .

If I got them, I would like to provide a home to the poor people in my country.

I would trade it for half the price on DNM for Monero, not all at once to not get robbed by the market admins.
Then wait for the upcoming FCMP upgrade and do many transfers from safe place over TOR and from VM to be certain it's washed clean.

I would keep it in Monero because going back to any transparent network would get me caught and trade smaller amounts for FIAT when needed  8)


Not your keys, not your coins  ;D ;D ;D

BTW, some scammers increase their chance by address poisoning, you generate similar address (beginning and ending the same) with software you can find on this forum and then send from this wallets very small amounts to the attacked address in hope he will just copy/paste last address without checking full address and send money to you by mistake.

I would send him $5 worth of Bitcoin back with a message "HODL"  ;D - Yes, I am EVIL.

Well I would think it is a dream to get this much Bitcoins. It is so much money we can share it with all the people we know and it will not run out of funds.

It would make me scared they were from someone bad and worry about that. That is alot of money someone will do bad things to get it back.

I will send this back to the address because this will bring either trouble or luck to me .

Luck if this is coming from a safe owner that mistakenly sent the amount.


Trouble if the sender is a criminal account and this will put me to being hunted by the authority .

I would answer him: "Thank you Satoshi"

I would have cashed it out if I had the opportunity and hid some of it, some for the first time for life. Well, then how will it go.

You need to get into cash right away, then get out of the country and get high.

I would definitely spend it all on a pizza

I don't even know, it's so much. The main thing is not to steal such wealth ;D

You can buy the whole island for yourself

It was his fault and how do even find the owner?



So what? so they can have even more children? this is a lucky strike that happened to one of billion and you shouldn't waste it to unending cycle.

this acutely the best replay so far.
respect to you anarkiboy, The law doesn't protect the dupes.

Say that this person has two years before he finally finds the owner of the receiving address. What can you do to hide?



You already used up all of your luck when you received it. So if you're scared of what will happen, then you should send it back immediately. Even if the authority hunted you down, it was sent by mistake. The real danger here is if the criminal hunts you down, and I doubt he can do that in two years, as it isn't easy to track down the address's owner.


what if he isn't Satoshi tho?

I like the way you think

you gonna spend all of it on weed? save some to the hedonism!


What is it with you Bitcoiners and pizza? Don't you guys like burgers or something?


You can actually but how do gonna make this money to be legit?
will you say that you bought it when Bitcoin was 0.1$?

It is completely useless to think about them. I will never get that much money wrong.

It seems to me that there is a high probability that you can simply be killed and robbed, the amount is not 100 dollars.

A patron of the arts, nobly. And how much would you give?

Your just looking for justification of how you don't wanna bring it back , because you can just easily send back to the same address that have sent you right?

but of course you will not agree on that because you don't wnat to bring it back .

Yeah, you’ve got a point. I will never send it back, lol. I will use this money to buy a new life and a new name. I will even purchase an entire island and hide there. Hell, I’d consider getting a sex change if I had to!

You know, living in fear while you’re rich isn’t the same as living in fear while you’re stuck in debt and poverty. We’re talking about $580 million here; you can do anything and go anywhere.

Come on, are you really going to miss $580 million just because of morals? Rules won’t save the reckless, my friend, and morals aren’t applied to them either

that Sex change made me laugh , that is so desperate of yours to hide the money ahahaha, also i wish that this will never happen because that will really change your life.


thats  a good point as well , but isn't our conscience will always hunt us?

having a second thought now haha

I would order Putin and his friends to be removed and peace would come to my country.

I will have  my OWN Island near pacific , with my Private Jet ready to take me everywhere I wanna go .

Will also buy shipping lines so  I will have My money flowing while spending luxurious life with my family and relatives/friends .

Hope that I will not be questioned by the authority lol.

Only hypocrite that will deny of having a desire in taking this huge money once being sent wrongly .

But there are some who are afraid of taking things Physical,material or emotional from others and may deny taking this into their wallet forlong .

for me personally? I will not answering this once happened .

There is no possibility of such a huge amount of money coming in this way.  Because whoever has this money will surely be very expert.  And although sometimes it happens.  I will wait for the person who sent the money by mistake.  If he can take it with proper information and proof then I will return the money to him.  And if after waiting I see that he is not coming somehow then I will spend it on public welfare.

I Must agree with you  mate , Who don't wanna have a new life  with 580 million .

or just to clear my conscience I may send back at least 500 million and will left the other 80 million in my pocket as Tip of being a good human sending 500 million back   ;D ;D

specially as we are young? there are lots of things we can use of that money , even donating 1 million for the poorer will not hurt our pocket .

It will remove all my troubles, besides I will be able to take my family far ahead. There is a lot of lack of money in my life, if I get it, all my lack will be removed. In my whole life there will be no more shortage, according to the current market price 10000 bitcoins = 580849900 usd. Maybe they will not end in the life of my grandchildren.

If this is the case, I will try to contact the owner of said wallet.  If I can contact him, I will demand some amount of bitcoins from him, he will give me as much as he likes, I will keep the rest and return the rest.

yups that's my point and also,criminal is getting better each day.

QUIT WORK ASAP

Send it back, with a message, "If you really sent this to me intentionally, let me know, and send it back to me. If you send it back, I'll donate it to '... ... ... '. Or do you have other ideas?"

8)

I will bribe El Salvador government, get it's citizenship and become it's new president (of course all by bribing)  ;D ;D

I will buy a Lamborghini or a Ferrari

LOL ;D. No way. It not happen, friend. Because if someone sent token to another wallet, yeah surely must have checked several times before making sure it was correct.