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Tomorrow I will post the private key for a wallet holding 10 BTC.

Then, I will check the balance after ten days.

That will tell me if this is a community I want to be a part of.

why dont you leave your wallet on a public bench for 10 days and see what will happen?

You can do the same with just 0.1 BTC and the result would be same.

No need to wait for 10 days, it'll be emptied within a minute no doubt! :p

Why would you do something like this? This is very unnecessary. We're on an internet forum which don't even require an email verification, and you expect no one would "claim" this 10 BTC? ::)

Maybe I will. If the wallet on the public bench holds more money after ten days, I'll know it's a good community.

What community are you talking about? There is no community, just a lot of individuals with their own thoughts and ideals who happen to share an interest in Bitcoin.

Unless this is trolling (these days such claim is more likely to be trolling, but I'll assume it's not), for your own good, 0.1 or even 0.01 BTC will do the job.
If you will publish the private key in plain, with no tricks / puzzles, you can check back in minutes, it will be already emptied.

Someone might hand it in. Also depends on how much or what was inside it, but we alll know what would happen if op did this (though I don't believe he is going to).

Good news everybody/// Tomorrow I will put an envelope on central station holding 200 dollars, if it is gone within ten days I do not want to live on this planet anymore.. allready booked my flight, so goodbye to you all!

If I would still not believe that he's trolling, I would make that script myself.
10 BTC is a great prize for some 1-2h of work (that much because I lack experience on this yet).

Haha this is a terrible idea, Maybe if there was a private VIP section with only long or trusted members it would be a better test to see if the trusted people break, but definitely not in the public forums 2000$ just sitting there. It will be gone in seconds...

You should PM it to me to see how trustworthy I am first.

Of course he is trolling. He's not going to do this but it is obvious what would happen. Someone would take the money. Though maybe someone decent could take the money then send it back to you to prove a point.

Haha you might as well as well run through a corn field in the pitch dark naked to see if you get poked in the hiney!  It's gonna happen.

Posting such non sense in a public forum, where they maybe a couple of bad actors amongst thousands of visitors each day is a bad example of what the community represents.

Just like if you walk through a bad neighborhood alleyway where murders and rapes took place, and you come out unscathed, doesn't mean it's not a bad alleyway.

Not a good measure of what a Bitcoin community is all about.

If you really really want to know what the community is all about, you'd go to those Bitcoin meetups, conventions, meet with developers, meet with people near you:

http://bitcoin.meetup.com/

Not stupid stunts like this!

Exactly.

I can provide a list of a dozen forum members.  You can send the private key to all of them via PM.  Then 10 days later you can check to see if the funds are still there.

This forum is open to the entire internet.  With your current plan, if your funds are taken, it's quite likely that someone that is not a member of the forum took your funds.  If you make your private key available to the entire internet, then you aren't really testing "this community" are you?.

Dafaq did I just see?? y would anyone put more cash into a unknown wallet? a good community is that..which would give it to lost and found..n they give it back to the owner with the same cash..not more cash..lol.

Whether your bitcoin is still there or not after 10 days how will that help to tell you whether this community is where you wanna be. What's the logic behind it?

To make it a good investment. The more cash is added, the more new wallets can be placed around town for the community to fill.

lmfao

You can't trust people in the internet, trust me (wait, what?)
Jk, really? Why leave 10 btc sitting in public, waiting to be emptied? There are few good men in the community but they are outnumbered by greedy people to. 10 days? Seems like forever. 1 hour or even 10 minutes would be long enough.

What will result tells you?

It will be emtpy .... ?
It will remain the same amount in .... ?
Amount will increase .... ?

What you will learn from it? It`s open community here, even one with no profile can read here. You better save your BTC for future and think about new Test.
May be this thread is a test itself  ???

Also, if you accidentally revealed your key, then it would be a real test, but here you're practically asking for it to be emptied. Why would you think it would be different?

It would be an expensive lesson on "protect your private keys".

Attention seeker perhaps

This is pointless exercise. It is well known that there are sharks, con artists and thieves leaching off this community just like within every other community worldwide. Having faith that 100% of a community has good intentions is naive and defeats one of the central principles that bitcoin exists in the first place ... to protect yourself from institutionalized and petty theft through strong cryptography. Just because bitcoin allows you the freedom to and hand a bunch of sharks some cash doesn't mean you should.

What a stupid tripping on "community". Please do it.

Your going to judge a large community like BCT based on an individual who steals 10 BitCoin. If you wanna do trust over the whole community on BCT head over to the market place and do some trading there. If you get robbed a lot, than this aint the community that can be trusted. But many people have had successful trades there so I wouldn't think it would happen.

There are previous examples where large amount of BTC was returned by community members...

1. 267 BTC was returned by johoe => http://www.coindesk.com/good-samaritan-blockchain-hacker-returned-255-btc-speaks/

2. 225 BTC was returned by firedcat => http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lb5my/asicminer_refunds_the_accidental_200_btc/

3. 20 BTC was returned by cloudmining.website => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938228.0

In all the above cases, the fund got into good hands of the community. But, if you put it open to all, your fund is only safe if someone swipe it out immediately and then return in a later state. So, do not post the private key, unless you want to lose it out...

this is literally the second dumbest thing i've ever read

Forget all this 10BTC stuff!  Where did you book a flight off this planet??   ;D

Thought that would be obvious, if it's gone he's surrounded by thief's.

No need for the test the chances are high you are surrounded by them  :-\

don't leave a wallet.  just leave a stack of $100 bills equating to 10 btc.  see how it goes then in your disney land private and gated community.

So if you find a wallet on the street/bench you would just put some more money in it and leave it there? Yeah, I believe you.


This.

Intentional revealing public key is nothing but the giveaway. Picking up those BTC wouldn't have anything to do with stealing. Again, "intentionally" is a keyword here.

That reminds me of a film I once saw, 'Gone in 60 seconds'

Make that microseconds,
don't do it buddy, donate it to EFF or the Bitcoin foundation, or some kickstarter project, or the Darkwallet group.

I don't know if you're serious or just trolling OP but if you're serious DON'T DO THIS. This is just an open forum with all sort of people and if you really want to throw away your money best donate it to charity, there are people around the world who are still dying of hunger.

I'm not sure if the community will take those Bitcoin or put in more.. But this should be posted in Games and Round or Meta. Not here.

Anyway, someone who dont have a Bitcointalk account can just steal you Bitcoin. This forums is not a private forums.

+1

and you are sure you lose all you BTC...

just read all the scams around here...

there are a child board too...

do you really think that here we are all honest?

It's been a day and I have received no free coins.

Is this the type of person we need in our 'community'? Promising free coins and then not following through.

What!? PAYCOIN?! nah man, maxcoin land is best. Might as well dip him into COUNTERPARTY

That is a punishment i would never wish on my enemies

Me thinks Calme was bluffing, not a man of his word.

OH well, if he did try to leave his private keys and wallet and I got my hands on it, I surely would've put a little stocking stuffer increasing the value of the 10 BTC wallet to show how good this community could be.

Too late though!  Deals off now...

Accepting donations, thank you.

if you are going to donate 10 btc to the society, may as well split the 10 btc between everyone who posted here.

What do you expect to happen? send me some.

S/he was bluffing, it's Feb 12 and no private key has been posted.

Hey guys, I'm leaving two grand on a park bench for the weekend. If it's gone when I return then parks are stupid I will never visit one again.

First of all , We know you are trolling around and That's a long period to wait for mate .
You better make it for 30 seconds , I can assure you that this will answer your question " if this is a community I want to be a part of."
Note that this will be considered as giveaway , and even a trusted member would take them