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Received 0.095 BTC in a wallet I own that I have no idea where it came from or why.

I have a feeling it was by accident or something.

If you sent 0.095 by accident and your address is:

15rBsF8ddixfUJw3FTheLsKcjhxvtrfkip

then sign me a message confirming you own the address and I'll send it back to you.

Wow
+1 for honesty

it hard to find honest people now days

just send it back to 15rBsF8ddixfUJw3FTheLsKcjhxvtrfkip.. simples! you already know where it came from

Oh that was me bro, I sent you the 0.095. message me for my btc address to send it back to cause i totally sent it to you on a different btc address.


Scammder disclaimer: this is not true what i stated above, i will take the btc and run, this disclaimer allows me to do so legally..i hope, thanks.

If that address is on an exchange, couldn't it possibly be lost if that account doesn't receive BTC for the user?

Not if it belongs to an exchange or some shared wallet.

See to be honest, it could be a bunch of things, could be a payout from somewhere I forgot about or whatever. If the person wants to claim it I will send it back but honestly it looks like an automated account (like API runs it for a site or something) so personally it might not have been a mistake, just cannot think of where it came from.

I didn't give that address to really any people, only 1 or 2 which I messaged them about it earlier today.

Whats weird too is that there is a 0.0005 fee attached.

If there's a fee attached I would guess it's from an exchange...
Did you have an old sell order that you forgot about or something?
Or maybe an old withdrawal that got stuck, and recently fixed/confirmed?

I commend your honesty though, if .1 BTC showed up from nowhere I'd probably just assume it was something I forgot about, and keep it.

It might have come from some long forgotten BTC investments, such as shares or bonds. No one sends Bitcoins by mistake. So first make sure whether those coins are yours or not.

Very few honest users on the forum , +1

Have u used the address before? Maybe someone else is using the wallet.
 U might not be able to contact the sender

you can contact the sender by sending a small amount to them and with a note to them, im seen ways of doing that.

don't think anyone's going to respond, just take the money and be happy about it :)

honest man in this wild forum  :P
if no one claim it, send this BTC to charity event  ;D

Interesting disclaimer!

Maybe if this is seen enough the rightful owner will see it and send a message. If it was from a server then IDK if anyone can even prove that it's theirs.

Lol nice try though :p ..! it will be hard to find a person with so many bitcoin address around ..! and not many look into this forum if they lost it..! lets see if someone really finds it and grabs it.!

if you really want to give the money back just send it to the adress you have..

otherwise keep it, there isn't much discussion to be made here :D

No clue for this.... that wallet already empty https://blockchain.info/address/15rBsF8ddixfUJw3FTheLsKcjhxvtrfkip
just wait and see... maybe you could tweet on twitter to many @(exchanger or others)

Hats off to OP, posts like this one are not so common.

Unfortunately, 99% of the time, the normal Bitcoin user will never report incidents such as this one. That is one of the drawbacks with Bitcoin. But I am hopeful that as time passes, the users will get less greedy and more honest.  ;D

Wow this is the 1st person, that actually states a wrong transaction thats willing to give it back.

Good job for good karma. :)

I wish everyone was like the OP in the community.

Good job and knowing whats the right thing to do  :)

Or at least gave it a good shot on giving the btc back to the rightful owner.

Just send it back to the address but id just keep it. How can someone send to the wrong address.

typing from a piece of paper or something like that and misstyping..

I got 0.25BTC once, never found out who sent them

Who types an address out? Unlikely to get another genuine address too. How do you know it wasnt sent on purpose or as a tip?

that's what I thought

but who tips someone 0.25BTC? :D

if it was indeed a tip, I'm tremendously thankful :D

Generous bitcoin millionaires?

I'd also wonder who mistakenly sends 0.25 Bitcoins  :D.

okay  :-\

that could be true but I still don't know what have I been rewarded for :D

If he will find someone who sent it to him and he (OP) will give it back - person who made that mistake should pay him some nice tip :P 15% minimum IMO.
Honest people should be rewarded for their kindness.

indeed :)

when I was a child I found a phone and gave it to the hall monitor to return, he most probably took the phone for himself

but once we found a purse with a car key,wallet and stuff inside, went to the police and when the chick came got around 10$ as a reward. for a child it's an okay sum :D

in this way encourage people to be fair, it's a small price to pay for a great benefit :)

Indeed this is working :) If you get a price you feel better, sometimes doesn't matter is it 10$ or 100$, but you are rewarded and you feel good :)

I love this feeling when you play fair :)

Nah, I've done it before, and I think others did it before me.

I received 0.12 before when it wasn't really a big deal (like 10 bucks) on some forum and the guy PM'd me cussing me out thinking that I wouldn't send it back and sent him the tx id and he never replied back lol... 

if no one claims it, it will become BTClock 0 of Satoshi Coin and worth 50 BTC
Block 1 gets 25 BTCTC

True enough anyways respect for trying to send it back but asking just in case it was sent to you purposefully from somewhere

Kudos for the sentiment ;)

it's funny how a simple mistake can have your coins lost and found by another.  I'd say keep the funds but look into where it came from and why just for some peace of mind.

lies all lies.. you wont return it ... noone is that honest.. NOONE

Most likely copy/paste issue, I mean you forgot copy to clipboard your address and already had other address in clipboard. It is possible to make this mistake if you dont check when sending this way