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has it ever happened to u that u just had ur wallet opened and suddenly some BTC arrived out of nowhere?

like someone sent it to the wrong address or something?

like suddenly 0.3777 BTC are rolling in but u don't know who sent it, why it was sent and what it is all about?

~CfA~

I have always thought about that but it has never happened to me.

Not personally. If I did then it would go straight back. It might be someone's abortion fund for all I know. By the sounds of it it happens when people have addresses stored and send to one from a previous transaction.

Many times thought about it that may accidently I receive 1btc and feel very happy but never ever happened in my life. Even I not receive 0.1$ any time. If it will happened in reality, then I should go through a good amount, get profit. Play again and get profit. Try 2 to 3 times more then send that amount back to that address. So I will have a good profit in my wallet. But I think it will still just only a dream. May happens true ! :)

Someone sending to the wrong address is rare and never happened to me. But what I experienced, and I believe is much more common are small Bitcoin amounts around 0.0001 BTC which are sometimes send to many random addresses. For those curious, there is sometimes message on blockchain.info - probably promoting ponzi site (at least this happened to me few times).

I seem to remember a very dedicated dust spamming campaign somehow related to the Sochi games. No idea what they were trying to achieve there.

Not accidentally but more or less randomly. IIRC Primedice ran a promotion sending out btc to frequently used bitcoin addresses back in 2013 and I was one of the lucky ones.

yes on the 21 igot .000066 x3
https://blockchain.info/tx/b53431315cd11d1932d6a562e591d62f62152c02d25bb8aa6e433d563cfe3e57
today igot another .000066
https://blockchain.info/tx/9a1d825bcff1ea06542828e74139904e22150cec78ac7f3e55dba7bd94f7e3e3
can any help me figureout who/where its coming from

No i don't, and i think it is immposible there are some bitcoin who be sent to my wallet randomly,  because people will careful when they will send their bitcoin because it is money.

The chances is close to impossible. Most likely they get your address from somewhere or they have sent you some coins in the past and accidentally use the address again.

Or else it will then be the 1Enjoy kind of scam which I did receive dusts (100 bits) from them.

Yes it happened to me ones, i recieve 100k satoshis in my wallet , I was shocked because ididnt do anything that day about bitcoin and i dont withdraw my funds in other sites, So i was a little happy and lucky

no i have never received any bitcoin my accident but i received dust spam from coin doublers advertising their scam.

also there is no way to receive bitcoin by accident! because the person sending bitcoin should have your address in order to send it by accident and bitcoin address is not like a bank account number. so for example changing one char to another char will not lead to another bitcoin address it will be a wrong address that doesn't exist because of checksum.

No, i have never received any bitcoin by accident or randomly, i'm very unlucky, but once I received 0.0002 BTC, I was happy and then I found out that it was a payment mine, of 2 weeks delay xD

100K satoshi is 100k satoshi and if you received it for free, that's great. It would be nice for me to experience that as well since I have not been lucky enough to be the recipient of those bitcoins being sent accidentally. Would probably use them to buy altcoins since it's something that I'd consider just bonus and not afraid to lose all of it.

yes once i got 0.4btc on satoshimines randomly.... i deposited 0.17btc there ...then i updated the balance there were 0.4 btc credited in my account...then later 0.17btc also arrived...that happened 5-6 months ago

I never happened with this receive some bitcoin from address who I don't know... maybe if this can happened to someone, i think 1:1000 because it's a fault.

I thought I received it luckily.

But days after I realized where it really came from.

Already happened to me many times.

Actually I never received it, but I once accidentally put the wrong amount of bitcoin when I topping up my prepaid mobile phone. I put 0.015 which the right amount was 0.0015. Fortunately, the customer service of the site was very helpful and refunded my money. Then I realized how bad the person feel if they send their money into wrong address or with wrong amount.

You were lucky, as such things occur either due to errors in address or by the mistake of the sending entity.
It happens sometimes that people got some small satoshis in their accounts for no reasons.

im waiting for this fortune to happen to me, something like a mistake but btc coin can't be recovered especially if you are just looking for it using the address receiver can use it right away i hope someone will send me some coin in accident so i can enjoy it  i hope it came from the gambler or rich btc holder not a poor guy like me.

I've never had a  random payment sent to me unfortunately  buti  have had  more sent to me by mistake. I  got sent 0.1 extra  for a  loan but just returned it to sender. 

haha I want it but until now it has never happened to me, but I think it has certainly never been done by anyone else out there. Thank you

AS much as i want to receive huge amount of btc in my wallet. no one seem to accidentally sent it to me.
i might not believe him if he wants it back actually lol.

I once received a low amount of bitcoins randomly, I honestly still do not know from who and for what.
Of course I do not mind that it has happened but it stays weird.

The chances of that happening is very slim. <Accidental transfers to a wrong address> You do get people, who would send a few Satoshi's to a known address, just to advertise something, but that cannot be defined as accidental. There are simply too many possible addresses for people to make that mistake. ^hmmmm^

This never happened to me but I would love if it did. To suddenly and unexpectedly see 0.3 BTC in your wallet is something no one would mind I guess.

I have never received bitcoin accidentally or randomly! Probability of happening so is very less. I have never sent bitcoin to any wrong address as well  because I always double check before sending bitcoins and sometimes when I send large amount, I use to check up-to five times.  ;D :P

Not till toady its happened with me but I think some day it will happen. If i got some free btc then it will be a good thing for me. But as i know about btc it will never happened. Because everyone copy and paste address when they send btc. No one type an address.

I have never received a ghost coin i think that it cant happen to many times
because many people are looking after it becasue the price of one bitcoin is really high so you dont make mistakes with it.

Yes i did, I was able to received two times already once every 2 weeks. I want to know where it is coming from so i could say my thanks to him or her. It is a small amount of Bitcoin but still it is a big help to me.

I am not that lucky to receive any amount of btc randomly or accidentally as God has already told me that if you want to earn money then you need to make efforts, don't look for shortcuts.

Haven't been lucky to get such bitcoin. But mistakenly I've send bitcoins to wrong address which I never got back.

Yes 2 times.

Once I received 1.14+ BTC on a dice site. Turns out a chat user withdrew his money to my address by mistake. And I returned it at that very moment.

And the second one is even more surprising. I received a 0.004 BTC payment from a random address. The address was spamming the bitcoin network with 1 satoshi transactions and I don't know why it sent 400k satoshi's to my adress.

It never happened to me, but if that happens that would be awesome, but in case i receive any donation i would search first for that address if i can found any contact info about him and if i could i would as if he sent accidentally or it was a donation to me.

I had funny situation like that. Well, not exactly - I will explain. One day some time ago I received random amount of btc - IIRC it was something like 0.01 or less something like that, quite insignificant really.
I was wondering where this money come from, and at first I couldn't figure it out, initially I thought someone tipped me or something.
But after day or two I realized that this BTC was bonus from some new casino I said I will test with free money. But I was confused AF back then because I forgot about this offer at first.

I have recieved a randomly bitcoin from some one bit i dont know how to send it back to them because i am not such a people who are just want to hold it.
But i cant see where he came from so i cant send him back im sorry men.

I actually did. It came from this address: 1Enjoy1C4bYBr3tN4sMKxvvJDqG8NkdR4Z



Also, if someone were to mistakenly send me maybe 150000 bitcoins, I would not return it since they know better than to ignore who they're sending it to.

"I accidentally sent them, may I have them back?"
Pfft. Impossible for you send me BTC by accident, especially with that large of an amount and considering I usually use vanity addresses. As if 1PandaExaY8XmCLSWbAw2prEjbYKgHY2g wasn't obvious enough.

It's your responsibility to double check, and it's your fault for not doing so. Therefore, your stupidity will give you an expensive lesson. By accidentally sending BTC to that address, you are completely giving up and transferring ownership of said bitcoins to PandaLion98, implicitly or otherwise, and it is at his sole discretion as to what he'll do with it (definitely not going back into your wallet). You have/had all the opportunities to make sure that your bitcoins be sent to your intended recipient, but you blatantly ignored them.

Moral lesson: Always triple check your destination address, especially with large transactions.

I'll be sending a link to this post to whoever messes up and accidentally send me their bitcoins.

I guess I am not that lucky to receive free bitcoins out of the blue. No such things never happened to me.

I had to always earn my bitcoins. Be it from trading, mining and signature campaigns. Nothing came free to me. I had to spent a lot of time to earn my bitcoin. Instead I received less bitcoins few time than expected. :D

That's not happen to me, buta lready happen to me is  double sending with my btc address I receive it double , I don't know if it's normal but it happen 3x in me, just only small amounts. Like 0.001

There was a thread recently that someone put up, they received an amount and was trying to find out who the sender was so they could notify them and send it back. 

I think it is the decent thing to do in the first instance making public the address it came from and txid in the hopes that someone searches for their address to see if they can find their missing bitcoin, then if you cannot find the person at least you tried, it could be that persons last penny, you never know their situation and although they should have double checked the address accidents can happen.

Then if you can't locate them it's down to you what to do with it.

Never had and probably never will. It's just nearly impossible. The chances of me receiving bitcoins randomly or mistakenly is less than winning the lottery. Just imagine how much of an address there is, and how much is created daily.

It didn't happen to me yet.If ever happens to be honest I will return the amount to its owner.It is best but chances for this thing to happen are extremely rare.You can not send money accidentally without having previous transaction with that address.

i was never received accidentally or randomly bitcoin but honestly sometimes i was hoping that somebody else could able to send me free bitcoin but unfortunately it doesn't happened

No, i did not received any coin yet, no one has made any mistake like that yet, But I think I will have to refund that which I receive by mistake.

I've never received Bitcoin accidentally and if I had I would have sent it back. Simple as that.

i think it happen to me some times,when i join signature campaign and i dont know when it payout,i suddenly receive bitcoin,andi dont know where it come from,until 2 days i notice that it was from signature campaign ;D

no do not ever receive bitcoin accidentally. i have heard from a friend that in his account there are some bitcoin accidentally added but still he is thinking about this that how does these bitcoin came in his account. but i personally never receive any bitcoin accidentally and i never like to have bitcoins of any other person.

I had this one time. I received 0.15 BTC out of nothing. The story: I once explained a family member of me how his wallet works in the form of sending transactions and such. Nearly a month later I got a call from him saying his  coins are gone while sending them to his cold wallet address. He didn't notice anything for nearly a month! I went there to help him and found out he sent the coins to one of my wallets. The coins that I miraculously received out of nothing had a source right now. I sent him his coins back and explained exactly what he did wrong. He was very happy to get his coins back as it were all his coins.

yeah.... i have in the past received some very small amounts of bitcoin never really worked out where they came from, but i wasn't to bothered either.

A couple of years ago, I received 0.3BTC out of the blue that to the best of my knowledge nobody owed me  :D. It's still sitting in the same wallet!

I`m reading this and smiling. Well I never even thought that something like that is possible to happen to me. That would be like founding a wallet on the street, maybe I have more chances to find that then someone to send me bitcoins just like that.

If something like that ever happen, that 0.3 BTC are going straight in some good casino, and what happens with that amount happens. I wouldn't regret even if I lose everything, but if I win something really big then it would be really lucky day.

i have earned such small transactions too though i think they were only on advertising purposes and nothing else because the transactions were really really tiny to be honest

i have never earned bigger transactions randomly to be honest, those smaller ones were just ads to ponzi scam sites or something like that that i have never used

I never received any bitcoins randomly. It would be like a win on lottery. And I never send bitcoins to someone accidentaly, because I carefully checking adress before sending bitcoins to not make mistake

Same, I have never recieved anything out of nowhere, it all took hard work. This makes me appreciate my bitcoins more and this is why I don't waste them on stuff I don't need.

I have had a few dreams where I received BTC randomly tho lol.

That's weird, it seems to be paying to websites of faucets. Perhaps an ad network or faucet service like faucetbox?

I also never received any bitcoins and I also think that its almost not possible with all these addresses, there are simply too much addresses.

No never and i don't think this gonna ever happen to me,i mean think about it everything is possible ofcourse but how can someone make a mistake like this when all he has to do is to copy-paste a btc adress?

There is a very low chance that it will happen. If that happens to someone, then most probably it is not an accident. Bitcoin addresses are so random and it is hard mistakenly send your bitcoin to a wrong one. :)

I received about 0,006BTC from strange address last year. I never think that someone could send bitcoin to wrong address because bitcoin address are unique but it happened. First I thought that's from my faucet which had given me bonus, but it's false. The bitcoin come from the address which I don't know whose it's.

Hmmm.  Actually this just happened to me this weekend.  I opened my poker account wallet and found 10 dollars worth of bitcoin in there.  I knew it wasn't mine so I contacted support to let them know that I had received money in my account and I don't know where it came from....All they said was, "if it's in your account, then it's there for a reason."  So, I spent it.  I think that it's important to try to figure out where somebody might have made a mistake by sending their money to the wrong address....I mean, it would suck if WE sent our money to the wrong address, right?

I have once and it was a very small amount telling me to send back more to get double. Obvious scam.

it never happened to me , even if it comes suddenly  i believe there is no possibility of reverse of bitcoins  like  i.e sending back bitcoins to the sender,  thats what  every site says during transaction , but still i am not sure , need to under stand more on this.

Yes, sending it back to the address it came from doesn't necessarily mean it will go back to the PERSON who sent it.  But, if a mistake like this happens, it usually means that they had made a transaction with you in the past.  In which case, you might have a transaction history of prior engagements with the sending party that you could reference.

Who in the world has that kind of luck?  lol.  I've actually seen people get free BTC accidentally but that must be rare.

yeahs I think the low chance that someone is wrong in sending their bitcoin? they just need to copy and paste an existing address right ? and then sent as long as Im using bitcoin. I never get bitcoin like that random or accidentally

this is very rare to get btc randomly or accidently, if it happens it is the mistake of the person sending the bitcoin and the one who gets it is very lucky.

There was a time when I keep on receiving 0.0003 bitcoin every Sunday. Exactly 0.0003 BTC every Sunday. I don't know where it came from but it was when I was just starting out. Maybe I have subscribed into something that I can't remember. I was trying a lot of things in bitcoin and maybe I stumbled into something that pays fixed every Sunday. Anyway, after 2 months or so it stopped sending 0.0003.

I actually did once received an accidental Bitcoin :P
I was making a transaction with him as a buyer and me as a seller, funny thing he sent me the coin twice :P
He was making a lot of transactions and accidentally pasted my address twice :D
I sent the coins back after he requested it :)

Too bad It never happened again though ::)

haha sometimes i received this thing sending 0.0001 which only useful for fee and a note in it promoting HYIP/Ponzi,this kind of scammer will do any possible way to gather victim,maybe your address ever exposed once

Yep, I keep getting some every week since feb of 2016. cool deal!

That has never happened to me but i hope it does.

never happened to me but if it happens i will wait for it to some one confirms it as i will not send them back right after i saw them because someone have might send them to me on purpose and once i confirum it was sent by a mistake i will send them back

off course there are allot of people who are sending bitcoins to some one and not even know that they send it to the wrong one.
But when i see that and i know where he came from i will send him back for sure.

IRL no, in my dreams it happens all time. At least once per week atm  ;D

No, never. The chance is very low. I wish that would happen to me, but unfortunately that never happens.
Maybe someday I'll get it. I would be happy if that happens. :D

No that never happened to me and did not even know that it was possible, but now that you say it it would be nice if I received them out of nowhere. I would spend them right away before someone comes and ask them back.

yeah agree with very little likelihood someone wrong in writing their bitcoin address and if one letter wrong bitcoin address
it is less likely that the bitcoin address is valid ? I've tried to send via blockchain but failed

In this time the price of bitcoin are really high even though it is fluctuating and getting some bitcoin accidentally is purely luck I think. But its always good to return the amount as they may be hard earned by some one else !
You owe it if you get the money accidentally and you got to return that :)

ahaha, this is just a stroke of luck that is so big if indeed we get BTC randomly. Because of the differences in the BTC addres so big so it is not likely to occur and can only happen when we do the transaction to the person doing the other.

The chance is so low like 1 in a gazillionth chances that the exact wallet address of yours will be re-generated and be sent with coins.

Personally, i have never received stray bitcoins in my wallet. but this is something which is very possible to happen. Just like sometimes you might find money deposited to a wrong bank account, bitcoin is more susceptible to this. Imagine a mere one sentence account number without other details like Account name, branch name, code etc., it is possible to have bitcoins being sent to the wrong wallet address.

But why is BTC more susceptible to it? If it's a typo, then that throws out the address such that it is extremely likely a private key will never be found, and such an address doesn't exist. More likely is the non-technologically enlightened get confused by two different addresses.

I too never have been lucky though once I was unlucky :P , I was exchanging some bitcoins and giving the user skrill, when I gave him the bitcoin address, I mistakenly gave the bet address of directbet and unfortunately lost it lol . Though I gave him skrill as it was my mistake :)

Received a few Satoshi's and got no idea from where.

Not yet... i'm waiting to receive something accidentally or random. But some time ago, i received some bits, and it takes to much time before i know that it was from a faucet that stopped paying, and restarted paying the money some weeks later.

yeah it sounds impossible when someone is wrong in entering their bitcoin address. and bitcoin was sent to your bitcoin address Lol
I thought it was too strange and improbable to happen

it it is so but i personally do not like to receive some one bitocn accidently and randomly. i think the person will have do work for that it is his property therefore i want to not to receive the bitocin of some body else.

I got a very little amount. I think  I received 0.004 bitcoin when I joined Coinbase. It was quite random, but I lost it because I didn't confirm it quick enough.  ;D

Soo knowing that amount isn't yours what had you done did you refunded the bitcoins? Atleast, you can make it as you wish or not , back to topic I never got a transaction from mistake from no one, I had never sent any amount to wrong address, but I know there are some malwares affecting the address where the bitcoin will be sent soo becarful and always confirm.

I bet on a eSports game and lost one day. I think it was on sportsbet.io, or some other sportsbet site that gives out jackpots. I was entered for the monthly jackpot, and I won! I won 0.25, which was instantly sent to my bitcoin address. So one morning I woke up, and I just had 0.25, just sitting there! Amazing!

Wow that is very nice of you, I would have gambled them up :P . Jokes apart, I have never been so lucky, though yes I once got lucky rain from a member on bitdice or primedice ( i do not remember ) worth some 3-4$ , but that was not accidental actually.

I guess i am not really lucky because i have never experience that. however, if that happens to me i will probably return the money to the sender if i had the chance. but if its really meant for me i will be grateful.

It never happened to me so far and I would also send it back, but if I knew was some abortion fund I would definitely not send it back, no one has the right to kill a life no matter you have no possibility to keep it. Thats the worse a human being can do , kill his own creature. Think before you act and this situation will never happen, abortion happens because of alcohol ,drugs and because of alcohol and drugs are so diffused right now at least in my country Italy a lot of bastards are being born from a one night stand.

Lol yeah I think it's impossible to get bitcoin inadvertently from other people because bitcoin address is typed incorrectly. I thought like that when I receive bitcoin that I didn't know. but after I thought it was impossible and it was from my referral earnings Lol

Yes, I was once like. Someone accidentally sent me 0.002 BTC. It has pleased me, of course. However, for me it is a disadvantage if you send the transaction to the wrong person, the transaction can no longer be canceled.

Yeah. I believe that it is really impossible.
People who say they receive little amounts probably just caused by confusion or an error from their third-party wallet provider.

Impossible sir.

it is wrong to say impossible. because i have lost some bitcoin while sending to my wallet. so i put wrong address and i lost them. but still i can say that i have never receive a sing bitocin from an unknown address accidentally.

recently i have received just a little amount of satoshi , its 0.002 something and i really don't where it comes from because i didn't made any investments or any withdrawal from some websites .

Unfortunately, that has never happened to me. The chances that someone enters exactly my wallet address and sends BTC accidentaly or randomly are equal to possibility that I win million dollars on lottery. So, none. Although I would like this happen.

Actually, your chances of winning the lotter is better than receiving coins accidentally or randomly.
The % of us winning the lottery is static, since the numbers used are constant while the number of addresses there is continuously increase everytime having us less chance of receiving coins randomly.

Perhaps, I was unlucky because I never get bitcoin by accidentally or randomly. i thought it was only a remote possibility that can be done by the people less scrupulous in transferring money with bitcoin.

well it asks about receiving bitcoin accidentally and if you dont ever share your bitcoin address with anyone then it would be actually theoretically impossible to receive bitcoins on accident

i have never got any bitcoins by accident, though if this would ever happen in my opinion i would just give it right back if that would be a lot of bitcoins because i feel that it would be a big mistake

I have received 4.20 BTC once. I don't know if it was by accident or randomly but I know that I was determined to happily receive it.

Lol it was a stupid thing ever done how can one go wrong in filling bitcoin address. whereas he saw it. you just need to copy-paste and check back to that address?

I remember someone said that were some kind of malware that changed the address where the money would be sent, meaning you could print the address and copy that would work be sure to confirm that .
Mistakes we all had done sometimes, with bitcoin if I get some money from and unknown address I will refund as I don't keep nothing form others.

then you must be lucky to be accidentaly pick wallet address whos paste by random person maybe he wants to withdraw hes funds and accidentaly he paste your wallet there, But its very rare situation that it will be happen.

And also i Dont recieve random Blessings from anyone here thats why im calling silent donator to threw some btc here(  Just Kidding ;)  )

I've never had it happen, but I can see how that mistake can be made. You have to be very careful to check the address that you send bitcoins to. The receiver of the bitcoins will just get very lucky because there's no way to get it back.

Lol I thought you did not need to return their money you don't know what purpose they send you the money to you. accept the money maybe it was part of your fortune. I ever get paid more they should send 0.0002 btc but they sent 0.002 btc I'm sure they encountered error Lol

I remember someone said that were some kind of malware that changed the address where the money would be sent, meaning you could print the address and copy that would work be sure to confirm that .
Mistakes we all had done sometimes, with bitcoin if I get some money from and unknown address I will refund as I don't keep nothing form others. haha. 😂 LoL. 😂

Well, I would return it if the sender wants me to return it. I'm not a greedy a-hole to just keep it because it's his mistake. That's just wrong. (Pretty sure there are people like that). But I'd ask a bit of a compensation at least a tiny bit if possible. You know, I'd like a little reward too.

i would totally love it if i actually got btc randomly .  too bad i ain't that lucky yet.
jokes aside. if that was a large amount of money i would wait to see if someone reports  it, or just send it back.

I don't experience that. But if i experience that happening if i received a big amount of btc i won't go back for who is the sender of btc. Because that is my blessings for me. 😂 but.? If the btc is small amount i should go back to owner. Because i don't need a small amount. 😂 That's a real talk. 😂
But we won't happen that because if you sent a bitcoin you should to copy only the bitcoin address to who sent your btc and then past. That's all. It is very simple to do that. 😂

Please can you post the address you received from, and man please do research of such addresses you might be wrongly included in a wrong activity like ...you know what I mean, right ?

no i have never been so lucky to receive anything at all by incident . although i have received some spam dust as in advertising their scammy doubler site but nothing else.

im so thankfull if thats happen to me. For now no one have ever  made a mistake and sends me some btc accidentally.

I haven't received any Bitcoin accidentally in the past, or at least I haven't noticed it. Chances are if I did get any Bitcoin by accident, though, I would more than likely and it back to whatever address it came from, however I just say that and my actual actions could differ a lot when it actually comes down to what happens. The last thing I want is to get doxxed or whatever by someone who really wants their Bitcoin back.

I am not so lucky enough...i never recieved a single satoshi ever randomly :-[

Maybe someday you will get lucky. I already received 2 times random Bitcoin in my wallet. I am surprised and i want to know who is sending me that Bitcoin and i will say Thank you to him for giving me extra dollars.

oh wow, how much bitcoins were there? i think you must have been really lucky because it is really small chance that someone will send you bitcoins randomly in my opinion

i have never received any bitcoins by mistake, though i dont think that it is a bad thing as i would feel guilty for someone then that they lost their money by sending to the wrong address

True and adding a additional digit will never make the transaction go through. I though have been lucky earlier as someone ( a site actually ) paid me twice instead of once, I worked and expected 17$ while I get 17$ two times.

Nope, i never ever received bitcoin accidentally. If someone ever received bitcoin accidentally, he must be very lucky. Because the chance to received it is really rare.

Really lucky, but that would have been bad from the side of the sending party. They'd have to shoulder that.

@ontopic I received a 0.05BTC suddenly once. I didn't knew where it came from until a few weeks later when I loggeed in my casino account, turns out there was someone whom I've referred months ago that just deposited and played. I got commissions from him.  ;D

I have never ever been that lucky. On the contrary I lost a lot of bitcoin in the past  to hackers and also to scammers so now I prize every Satoshi I earn and don't let it go into anything that looks dodgy. If I ever received randomly I would be one happy bunny! I am in a gold backed business though so actually earn bitcoin from that five days a week, it's cool to receive some revenues, but not randomly, not that lucky yet!

Yes I received 0.03 bitcoin once in my wallet long time ago so I thought not to use free money and I gambled with those coins and lost it there.

I am using this for some time and never have any by accidentally but once I send on wrong address which never came back because this address is never used by any one after this transaction

Same here I never received yet but have sent once to wrong address when I was a newbie, amount was not too high but still it was an very disappointing.

Well till now I am not lucky to receive some coins accidentally or from unknown address but I hope one day I will get surprised to receive some big amount into my wallet, I saw some lucky people into thread who received that surprised gift from unknown address or person without any reason.

Yes , since about a year i received accidentaly 0.5 BTC from external wallet address without asking it or waiting this amount, but it was really helpful for me because i needed this amount a lot in that time.

Ah I think that is what ponzi's do, they send you some bitcoins as a bait and expect you to send them more bitcoins in greed of getting doubled. Sometimes they pay too doubling your money, but the end we all know : LOOSING ALL our money to them.

Only received some sat with some advertisement in the description.
But hey it's free money  ;D

sadly it never hapend for me, even if  i hope for that each day, it would be awesome to get free money but sadly nobody did any mistake while sending their money yet

and actually once, when i was very sleepy, and typed bitcoin address by hand, and  i did mistake in one letter i think and it send 0,02 bitcoin to someone, and i was pretty sad then

I have had this happen too. But not ever did I get some bonus money from someone who made a mistake in his/her address.
But If it happened I would sent it back.

No I haven't received it yet and I really don't expect it in future too, as to it happen you should be lucky but that is not the case with me as I know if I want bitcoin in my wallet then I need to work hard to earn it.

I think it's very rare to received bitcoin randomly. I mean where did they gets your bitcoin address? because i believed that if they change just one character on bitcoin address it will be invalid. So for me it's impossible to received randomly or if it happens it's very rare.

Lol, this actually happens to people? I've gotten transactions that took do long to confirm that I forgot they were coming through, and was later pleasantly surprised. But as far as free, random money, not yet.

haha, that would be such a day to receive a random bitcoin deposit to my wallet. it is both lucky and unlucky for me because if the amount is big i wouldn't be able to sleep at night until i find the owner and give him back his lost coins :)

If Someone sending to the wrong address is rare and never happened to me. But if that happened to me i know that was my blessings to me. 😂 Because i don't know how to sending back. Because if you received a bitcoin there just a transaction I.D only and not included the bitcoin address of the sender. So how can i back the accidentally bitcoin sending to me.? I don't know the address of the sender. So i should to keep and gather the bitcoin. :) And that's what you call a blessing from them. 😂

just 0.001 btc accidentaly sent to my wallet, i never joined hyips so i'm sure that it was mistakenly sent from me

thats not a lot of money to be honest and i doubt that it was a really big amount of money for the person who made this mistake, i think that someone just pasted a wrong address

i havent received a lot of money randomly to be honest because in my opinion i have never showed anyone my main address so people just dont copy it on accident most probably

I still never experience it yet.. but i heard some are receive 0.5 btc he didnt know who send it and this person who receive 0.5 btc is earning in faucet so he can not make that high amount in faucet so he receive a bitcoin from random people..

no i never receive any bitocin accidentally. and never like to receive it.

No for me it never happened. You are lucky so without doing any work you got approximately 0.4BTC it is big amount now. But how it happened you received to your bitcoin address or any other site account. Because if you received to site address means it will happen by mistake but to Bitcoin address how without having your address how can they send right.

lol this post is exciting because this just happened to me today. in the morning i randomly got like 0.05 btc on my wallet,and i had no clue where it came from so i thought someone accidentally sent it, but then my friend messaged me after saying it was him paying me back  ;)

I got a small amount just last week of 0.000257btc nothing to write home about but enough to post on this topic.

It looks like an amount from a faucet but I have stopped doing those months ago, so not too sure where it came from to be honest.  :-[

If you have no idea where it really came from and the sender has no idea too if he sent to the right address, then why get sad?
You should be happy at least, that's better than nothing.  ;)

naaah never i wish it happen someday

Fun topic, although I never received any random BTC.  I tend to give more than receive, so many of my friends have received from me, sometimes as a surprise.

Interesting about the ads --  I wonder if after the Halving, it will become cost-ineffective to send.

I guess they could just line up in the low fee queue, since they are not time-sensitive, but they were probably able to push them thru with no tx fees in the past.

Nope, but I have had someone from LBC put money into my bank account, about $1500 USD at the time was about £1100 but could never find out who it was, I asked on forums and all and even asked my bank to reverse but they said they couldnt, I even asked my bank for sort-code/account number of that person, similar to BIC/SWIFT but they couldn't tell me because of data protection. No way for me to send the money back really.

So I spent it on a Holiday to Spain :) I tried my very best to get it back to them though. I guess they clicked the wrong contact when paying someone else.

it happens with me before once. I received my signature weekly payment twice in one week and when I told bitmixer, they told me I can keep it because it is their robot mistake. it was really something nice from them ;D

not a chance. im so unlucky. hahahah. but my friend received 0.5 accidentally

Seems difficult that this happen for me. The bitcoin addresses are to long and complicated to be able to happen this thing. You must find from where these bitcoins are arrived and will find that are your money of gift from someone who love you. But not from nowhere or randomly.

Oh I think your friend is lucky.I mine friend would have got 0.5 btc I would asked him 0.1 for me as well :P

not really and its almost impossible because people don't put btc address manually while sending someone but they just copy and past btc address given by someone, site...etc.and btc address is hard to write or rewrite.
so mistake is null here.

I do not think that I ever have received random Bitcoin by someone and I do not think that the chance of it happening is big.
If it would happen then I would be pretty lucky and I would sell them right away.

If somebody just accidentaly send you BTC, then its their own fault. You cant blame yourself that you are the one who sinned. You cannot track the owner of that address. If you received 1 BTC then if you want to give it back, then give it back. But if you want to send him a thankyou message, send him/her maybe half or some portion of it. But its your own decision. You know what to do.

until now, never. But i ever seen someone made wrong tip on gambling site, he was gonna tip to his bank but accidentally he tipped to another person, then that person just disappear without any words come from his mouth.

As of now I haven't received btc on my wallet. To be frank I'm waiting for that,  ;D someone would accidentally send 20btc, they can't trace you and it's not your fault to receive such amount because it's their negligence. Just be thankful for the blessings. :)

I have never had this happen and it seem very unlikely to receive bitcoins accidentally because of the almost infinite number of addresses. What seems more likely is sending bitcoins to the wrong address which may not be used or may never be used. Those bitcoins are most likely lost forever because the address doesn't belong to anyone.

Never received because I don't think this is possible to receive accidentally Bitcoins without having some previous interactions with sender. This is beauty of bitcoin that all addresses are unique and if you change few letters you simply can't complete the transaction. I don't think ever will receive too this is hard to believe if someone claims too.

no i never receive bitcoin ever incidentally. and never like to receive it incidentally.

No, I'm not. But I've been thinking about winning in some Gambling site because  you know in Gambling it's a pure luck. But anyway, who knows that one day I might receive some bitcoin, without knowing  the reason just like what you said accidentally or maybe a donation *lol* , especially when it's a decent amount then  I will be so much happy and thankful. :)

I received once 0.02 in my mutibit wallet one year ago, I tried to find who sent me those btc but unfortunately I couldn't find him and hence I used it in gambling.

No i did not received any BTC accidentally, and when I will receive, I will return that as I do not want to hurt any person with his mistake.

Yaa you are correct. Receiving Bitcoins accidentally may never happen but acknowledging the odds !!! The uniqueness of the bitcoin address every time for the transaction is one of the main feature of bitcoins. 

If it has ever happened to anyone which is almost impossible,then I want to be a partaker,  and benefit from it in the future. Who does not want free money but most people are always careful anyways but it could happen even though chances are slim especially in the payment to different users like a signature campaign. Eitherway, I'm still hoping for one... My 2 cents...

Neither I have received or sent accidentally to anyone as whenever I am sending I check it many times and receiving randomly depends on the opposite person, but haven't experienced such yet.

No, I haven't. But I'm not very sad with it, because such a situation would make me feel uncomfortable

I have never received Bitcoin random before but I wish that I would receive them randomly because there is nothing better then free Bitcoin.
I would hold on to them for the future for sure selling them is not a option.

Wouldn't that coins will be rejected if they were sent to an "ungenerated" bitcoin address?
Unless, if the address was generated long ago and has never been used, still, there would be an owner.
Too bad if he/she does not open that wallet anymore.

I did received Bitcoin 3 times accidentally every 2 weeks. I don't know if this is accidentally sent to me or someone is helping me but i didn't received any message from anyone. 

If someone accidentally sent coins into your address, you can check the address it came from and return the bitcoins. It's the right thing to do.

I think you receive it as referal bonus , and you join this but suddenly you forgot what site you enter ,there is some sites I knew, they don't send email when there sending funds from other wallet as a referral bonus.

I think it never happened to me that someone sent a bitcoin to my wallet unexpectedly.  All those bitcoin that landed in my wallet address are expected since I had invested to some cloudmining  or stakemining before  and they are  still in operation till now but the reward is more likely very less than the previous rewards.

No, I have never received any transaction by mistake.
When I send any tx, I make sure that I am sending the right amount to the right address. And I think all people should do so because losing bitcoin is bad :-D

Sadly, i have never received any amount of Bitcoin accidentally, i actually think that it has a very, very small possibility of happening because people just copy and paste the addresses, i mean, nobody would type the whole address.

Yeah we need recheck before sending as if you send it to wrong address then its impossible to recover it and if we receive it accidentally then I think we should enjoy it.

Yes, i too not received any BTC accidently. I think 99% people will recheck BTC address before doing any transaction. Even I also double check BTC address if I do any operation. I think very fewer people will get free BTC like this. They are lucky guys.

One of my client has done like that, on day when he was going to pay to an address he by mistake copied someone else bitcoin address (I don't know that how and from where, but he said like that) and send some amount to there and after that when the transaction got confirmed he realized that he has sent the payment to someone else.

To be honest I have never received a single peanut of bitcoin in my wallet for free.

Its always an hard work for me to earn even a small amount of bitcoin and I am giving my best shot everytime.

oh wow, i guess you were really lucky about it, as far as i remember i have never received any money out of the accidents because i dont give my btc address to anyone

but i have never received it randomly or accidentally. but i have once sent it to some where else still do not know about it. actually it was my first time and now learn how to to sent bitcoin to someone.

He is lucky that he receive bitcoins without knowing where it from.. I never experience it but maybe in the future i will experience it if i receive 5 btc or even 1 btc in my address..

It wouldn't matter, I would return it to the address it came from anyways.
Unless it came from multiple addresses like a exchange or dice site or something, then i would post it here on the forum and whoever can show me TX id will get his/hers coins back.

Yeah its good to be honest as honesty will make you different from others and it will also earn you a  great level of respect, its better to return it rather then using free money.

You are really lucky dude, try to search for that address if you can find if it was posted anywhere on the internet.
I have never received any btc accidentally from someone but if someone sends to me I appreciate it but if it was accidentally I would return them if i know that person.

You will never receive a single peanut of bitcoin, LOL!   ;)

I do not think we should really enjoy it though. Just going by morals, thinking of what the sender's feelings about sending them to the wrong person is quite not a good feeling. Celebrate it, sure. But send them back if possible. Because you might be a sender in some other days by any chances  :P

I have always wanted this to happen to me but unfortunately, I am never been that lucky..:P

I still hope someday, I get few BTC randomly. It can happen..:D

never accident for me is random send and receive addres for me

I am keep waiting for this fortune, when it is going to happen i will start with trading,some money i will keep in hold for future increase in the price, but it should very soon happen. Waiting for it who is going to send me.

No, i never experienced anything like that, i have always been thinking about it that maybe sometimes if i get lucky i will receive a transaction out of nowhere that will make me rich  ;D but just dreams you know :(  ;D

i think its not fare to have the bitcoin of some one else. why should we expecting some one else bitcoin. let suppose that you have wrongly sent your bitcoin to some one. what do you think what will be your feeling at that time. just like that the other will also feel so.

I have never ever received bitcoin randomly but unfortunately in the early days we got hacked on POLONIEX over 1 bitcoin and our wallets got hacked another half a bitcoin but otherwise no luck ever in receiving random bitcoin gifts.

Yea it was happened but not huge amount it was just 0.00010,000 Btc
after this i start creating new address for every deposit

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Lol for now i really haven't experience this one yet but if this every happens to me will i guess i will have to use it properly because i think it's a blessing in disguise and i can't return this one to the real owner since i have no idea who ever did that.

Hey that might be the famous virus, what actually this virus dos is that when you copy any address it lets you copy it BUT when you go to paste it it will paste their own address ( the hacker or virus's address ) and we never double check friend and boom thats it ! money sent to virus. :(

I guess I am not that lucky person like you as I have never received any bitcoin in my account accidentally. All of my bitcoin holding is legally earned by me only. Also I have not received few dollars which I was supposed to be received.

But I wish to receive such accidental amounts in my wallet. So if you like to send some money to me, you are welcome.

Noo not yet and if that happens im going to be thankyou hoe that someone soon will send me 1 bitcoin randonmly so that i can have a capital to start trading if someone sent it to wrong address probably theres only a 1 percent chance that you are the one it because million of users are using bitcoin wallet

I have only received small "salt" amounts that looked like advertising spam but I wouldn't mind a larger sum.   ;D

the decent thing to do would probably be to return it, but that would be entirely up to you.  :P

Some time ago when I was studying this all about blockchain I received 8 BTC from a Casino but I lost these all as I send them to my friend for Canadian Visa as He received payment he never reply me or never contact me about any thing

The chances of you having to receive bitcoin randomly from an address, owned by someone you completely do not know, is nigh-impossible. It's easier to win the grand lotto than to receive bitcoin randomly, given the amount of addresses there are.

Sadly but no, I’ve never received any bitcoin randomly, although I’ve always wished to have some bitcoin falling out of the sky haha just kidding. However, if that ever happened to me, I would be more concern about the ones who sent me bitcoin like that and what’s if that amount is a huge bunch of bitcoin, well then poor them.

yes i also never receive bitcoin accidentally but if some thing like that happen i will certainly send it back to the person, as once i got a physical wallet full of money round about half millions rupees in it but i found an address in that wallet and call to the person and give him back his wallet.

Well I can say it has never happened to me but if it did I would most likely send it back.

till now I have not received any bitcoin accidentally or randomly, but I don't know that why will a person will receive some bitcoin accidentllay . these will be sure from someone by mistake then I will like to refund that as it will be morally illegal to use them. 

It is impossible to get any free bitcoins because its a long string and people usually copy things and never type such big addresses and hence doing mistake is almost impossible.
Yet I can say I got a free 0.012 from my client when he somehow double sent me 0.012 + 0.012 while he had to sent just once and was enough rich to let me keep the extra .012

You are right these will be from someone else and that is why we do not have to keep them for ourselves. we have to send these bitcoins back on that address from where we will accept them. so that the real owner will receive them

I have never received Bitcoins by mistake or randomly. Chances for something like this to happen are extremly small, almost like to win a lottery. And I don't know anyone who has such experience. Even if something like this would happen it wouldn't be fair to keep this coins so I would return them to the address they came from..

Have not....but they maybe others that had...recieve btc accidentally...and that should be cause of addreses....

I kind of wish I received some BTC accidentally or randomly, however I haven't ever actually had something like that happen to me and chances are it is never going to happen to me, which I am fine with in some ways. If I did get some I'd have a debate with myself between whether or not I should send it back or keep it, and I don't want to think about that.

Well I haven't experienced yet that I have received bitcoin by accident and I don't think this is going to happen to anyone that uses bitcoin.

Because the bitcoin addresses that we have are unique and it is very unnecessary that a sender is going to be wrong and accidentally send it to anyone.

And even if this is going to happen to me, I will going to return that to the sender.

I've experienced it before, maybe on last year when I got the payment from a signature campaign. So the campaign manager sent me 0.1BTC instead of 0.01BTC, then I tell him that he sent me too much but then he said that it's okay he just mistyped the amount and I could keep the Bitcoin. What a nice Sig Manager :)

Wow, something so sad. However I see that her manager sign the campaign is very professional so you are not harmed the incident. But more fun is indeed using bitcoin: for bitcoin digital currency is advantageous for all of us. If you want a good thing then we have to be patient in waiting for the price of the bitcoin ride

I check my wallet 5 days ago and see notification that say I received deposit 0.0038, of course I'm happy knowing i got btc from someone I don't know.
But when login to bctalk i know, the random btc is sent from my signature campaign manager wich notif the signature is closed and give us last payment.
Damn!

Well, i never received bitcoin randomly or accidentally from someone. I think the chance to get that experience really small and you are a lucky person if you ever experience this.

No ,i  never get btc due someone mistake but i had got last year for referral of faucet about 0.0003btc that was posted by me at Facebook page . but that wallet was losr by me and btc also .
i hope i will also get the same amount of btc just by luck ;)

I wish!
But never did.

This has never happened to me and probably will never happen. What are the odds of someone making a mistake like this when most people just copy and paste the wallet key they are sending to?

Havent experienced that. But I did experience being payed more than what I should have been payed. I messaged the sender fast and ask where I should send back the excess coins that he sent to me.

We are not perfect so sometimes we do not think about that. But that way trust to each other will be seen thru honesty.

no , i had never got btc by accident or another person mistake to send by fault to me . but once a time i thought i received 0.003btc by accident but that was payment of signature campaign who close thier campaign and paid to there advertiser in nid of the week .
but when i comes to know about this story i was full of sadnesa :(

I am thinking of that also when I was still newbie in bitcoin I said to myself "What if someone is going to send me bitcoin by accident," But upon thinking of it again and again that is not possible at all that someone is going to send you by accident because if you made some mistakes by sending bitcoin you don't have option to get it again.

Your statement here doesn't make any sense, if you said that it's not possible for someone to get a random BTC by accident then why did you say that we can make a mistake on sending Bitcoin. Which means getting a random Bitcoin is actually possible if someone accidently makes a mistake while sending his/her Bitcoin.

May Be someone has made a mistake to sent it to you. There Is so people in the world that using bitcoin and may be the wallet adress is same with yours closely. i hope I get lucky to recieve bitcoin like you.

It could be sent mistakenly from someone.  Most likely the one you have a transaction before since maybe he still have your bitcoin address. 

It never happened to me and would like that to happen.  I just hope that no one would ask me to give it back.  But if ever they message me then I will just sent it back to them since it is not really mine.  But that would be an amazing thing to happen but that would be so rare.

not yet. but if it happen is that possible to look for the owner ? in case there are no one that shout if he send some amount btc to wrong address

Yes, just search the blockchain at https://blockchain.info/ (https://blockchain.info/)

Not really but if this happens to me then thank you i want to try this what is the feeling of receiving some money from random address and it is feel good? or what so ever. Well Receiving feels us more happier than spending tho. and i think no can do that accident is a foolish.

No no. But sometimes during manual disaster like when some wallet gets hacked I wait to receive surprise bitcoin but this is not possible I know still I hope for receiving bitcoin. But once my friend sent me bitcoin accidentally unfortunately he asked to return back. So sad story of mine.

Happens when we are new since we don't know that even disturbing a single letter in the address can cause serious money loss. I had once did such mistake but did not costed me because I deleted the end character of address and it said invalid address.

This used to happen to me, when I was doing faucets. I was like, 'woah, this guy is so generous!' but then I found it was just an automatic payment from a faucet and I was disappointed.
Sending to the wrong address can happen but rarely. And when it does, there's only a miniscule chance that it goes to you and not someone else.

That's going to be impossible for a disaster to cause a Bitcoin to be sent your address.
The only reason I see that coins can be sent your your address is by mistake through copy and paste. Other than that its impossible, I haven't seen a Bitcoin address that is almost identical with only 1 letter or number difference. System will not allow you to send if its missing a letter or number.

I thought it really did happened to you and upon reading all the comments here majority didn't experienced this kind of scenario and I'm pretty sure that it is not going to happen either.

Because when someone is going to send bitcoin for their transactions, we are becoming responsible for checking the bitcoin wallet addresses that we are going to send the payment.

So, this is not going to happen.

so do i mate if accidentally been transfer i will use it from an investment and after earning i will send it back hahha. but honestly speaking i can be lucky but unfortunate to the owner so i rather not to wait instead,.

Seriously though, how the hell does one "accidentally" send Bitcoins to the wrong address??  ::) It's not like people memorize Bitcoin addresses, or do they? I know I copy paste my addresses but I triple check them before clicking send. There was this one guy on Reddit who sent 800 BTC to the wrong address.. 800??? like how do you even reach that level negligence lol?? I suppose he could've been high on something. I don't even want to think about the number times I would check everything for that amount, probably spend an hour or more just checking and re-checking  :D

Not yet, but I have received this Altcoin (Xaurum token in the Ethereum chain before) I will like to experience it.

I do not think that someone will message you to sent it back to them.  It is totally impossible as he only knows the bitcoin address not your email address.  But in case that it is your friend or someone you have transacted before then it could be possible.

We all wanted to happen that to us with a good amount of bitcoin.  If that happens then it must be pure luck. ;D

Yeah you really can't send a message to the guy you accidentally sent Bitcoin to. If you somehow do manage to message them, chances are they won't return. That's why you should always double check the address you are sending Bitcoin to, before you send it.

I heard before here that someone already receive a large amount of bitcoin i think its accidentally because they didnt know where bitcoins comes from..
If i am one of the lucky receive even 5 btc i will just try to find who sending me with proof and sign message if i still didnt find them i will keep it for a long time..

Yeah it would be great to receive a amount of bitcoins for free without doing anything, so far I haven't received a single penny in charity and even in future I don't think its possible.

Oh i wish i could be lucky so that i also recieve some extra bitcoins randomly or accidently,because no matter how much you earn but when you get something because of luck it has diffrent feeling but i have not recieved any amount bitcoin even a satoshi accidently.Whoever recieved it must be pretty luck.

I've never received bitcoins accidentally, but I don't mind to receive it someday  ::)

No, I did not received bitcoin randomly. If this happens then maybe I would consider it as a loan if its a big amount and then I will use it in trading and then when I earn enough, I will send back the bitcoin because maybe it was sent wrongly to me and the sender might feel bad because he just lose his bitcoin and maybe its hard-earned so I will send it back. However, if its just small like I will just spent bigger amount in transaction fees by sending it back then I will just keep it.

I think less likely if they get bitcoin randomly. moreover bitcoin address of each person is different. if you type the address of a different one letter only. Your transaction will probably fail dude. I can confirm that a person is very lucky ?

Yes.

Refunding BTC or simply any payment for that matter just gives off a cool feeling.


Let's continue to stay strong and keep the cycle going

No. If I were to receive Bitcoin randomly I will send it back to the owner if the person somehow get back to me. Anyway, my address is a vanity address, it is very easy to find me. Which in turn also mean that it is very hard for someone to send wrongly to a vanity address.

I once dreamed of receiving 5 Bitcoin in my wallet (the dream specifically pictured Mycelium and my phone) however.

Sometimes what happen is we put our address in many sites when we even do not remember how many places we have given our address. And some places we might get referrals in sites like faucets and all and hence we get profit every day or weekly and wonder if its free money.

No, havent experienced that yet but that would be awesome if ever. But if someone claimed it that he/she accidentally send it to the wrong address. As long as he/she proved it i'll give it back to him/her wether he will give me a tip or not i will still give it back.

Yeah if they prove that they are the genuine one then we can afford to send them back, as there is no point in having fun with others hard earned money.

I agree. I cant imagine if im using other bitcoin that is accidentally send to me and that person is doing a lot of work to earn that amount of bitcoin. I salute you dude.! whether he/she tip me or not i will give it no matter what :) i want to earn bitcoin by my own self :D

Eversince I haven't yet recieve any bitcoin from unknown wallet address even just 0.00001 satoshi haven't :'(  But if ai receive any amount specially if it is big amount well I will not gave it back to him ;D

Lol I think most of the people will do the same, as if you receive very high amount accidentally then you may get greedy and won't take any decision ethically.

I am not that lucky to receive money without any work  ;D

I never had any btc accidentally sent to me, nor did i accidentally send to someone wrong. I always double check my addresses for safety

Yes I received 0.02 btc once in my multibit wallet and I was wondering who have sent me, and as I was a newbie at that time so didn't knew how to track it and none claimed it too.

never experienced it in bitcoin wallet, but I've ever experienced this on the dice sites, I was surprised when it suddenly my balance in dice sites has 1 BTC and then I try to withdraw. This happened about two years ago. I was very lucky, even when I am very happy, because I never get a 1 BTC, even hard for me to get bitcoin when it's time.

Same here but my friend actually reached 0.2 btc out of nowhere and I think it's a mistake but are addresses that close to eachother that one typing error could send it to a different person? Anyways I'm waiting eagerly on those million bitcoins to be send to my address acccidently ;)

Well  if that happens someday that we receive millions of bitcoins accidentally then it would be a crazy moment for us and I will surely get retire from work and start traveling the world.

I have never received randomly bitcoin and I think chances are very slim cause people copy past addresses and I don't know anyone who would just type over an address haha so anyways chances would be so slim that probably you will never receive anything from a random address. But it would be amazing to receive a bitcoin randomly.

I had some times a couple of coins that are not mine and they are there just in my wallet how can i trace the person who send it to me because i think he made a mistake and i want to give it back because i am a good person.

I have never had bitcoins in my wallet that are not for me but i have lost allot of coins out of my wallet and cant trace them anymore that is the shit about bitcoin is untraceable such a stupid thing.

I never received bitcoin randomly or accidentally.  All the bitcoin i get is from signature campaign or trading altcoin.  It would be great if random someone throw me a big  amount of BTC :D  And if i do get that big amount of BTC am sure I'll use it to put  up an online store that accept bitcoin to support bitcoin usage.

there is this thing called base58 checksum which has to be correct for the address and to my knowledge changing one letter of your bitcoin address would make that checksum wrong. so in other words there is no address that only differ in one or two letters so you can accidentally send to a wrong address.

although I would to see your friends address and the similar address to be proven wrong but I doubt that there were small difference between the addresses.

These scenarios or situation is nearly impossible to happen but  i do  heard of  those  bitcoins that have been accidentally transferred to another wallet since the  possibility of commiting mistake is there. We sometimes actually do put a wrong address sometimes or on rare  cases thats why some  would  never expect to recieve bitcoin nowhere.

I have never received randomly any bitcoin. Once I thought it was very random but then I actually forget that I participated into a giveaway. I think most people here who said they did receive also forgot about a giveaway those are usually very small amounts.

Oh. Just like what happened to me when I am browsing different kind of job to earn bitcoin. I saw one that you will just play videos and they pay you some satoshis. I didnt even think that it will pay so I just stopped after hitting the payout mark. When I receive the payment I didnt realize it came from there.

I really wish that someday I receive some big amount randomly in my bitcoin wallet, that will solve all my financial problems but I don't think that will ever happen with me.

I wish i did  ;D but i think i'll resend'em back  :)

yes I have received but only very small amount 0.0001 or less from some gambling site for promotion but didn't received any good amount of btc transaction on my wallet without knowing the sender.

Unfortunately I did not received any bitcoin to my wallet accidentally, I think now everyone is clever and no one will be in mistake to send money to any other address.

I am not that much lucky that i will be receiving BTC by accidentally or randomly, even in any lottery i have never won any prize, ya but once i have downloaded some file and after 5 min i am seeing that my desktop got hacked and everything in my desktop wallet got stolen around 0.15btc.

If the transfer to the purse took place by chance, then maybe it is a virus , for the attempted theft of your money .

I always dreaming about this !

But as I know it's impossible since when people copying address, they already aware that the address is the correct one.
Let say even your child touch your wallet but they still can't send to anyone ,right ?

Yeah and I think when people were new to bitcoins at that time they have committed that mistake but after spending time with it now people check twice or thrice before sending, so now we cannot expect that miracle will happen.

Honestly not all people who can receive high amount of bitcoin almost 70% of people not thinking to send it back to owner who send bitcoin accidentally.. but same here if i am one of who receive bitcoin from unknown person..

I think he is not receiving them by mistake, maybe he has registered on some faucet site which gives out profit every week. Or maybe he has registered on some sort of affiliate site or social site which shares the profit every week, I remember many sites out there who do such things.

It never happened to me and I wish it never happen in future too as I wouldn't be able to trace the sender to return and I dont want to destroy or giveaway someone else's money without his permission

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Yes, I have received bitcoin accidentally but it worth because I was involved in a deal that I got scammed together with a user here and after few months the real user (not the scammer) send back me the funds twice, so I didn't returned him but send to the user that we were scammed together, and I consider that I made a good move.

i have this experienced too, i get payed by some amount by double, honestly i don't know why this could be happen. but i am not experienced  about receiving bitcoin randomly but i wish  ;D

LOL, was searching about it on the web and found this thread.

I'm pretty much amazed to see that many of the users has received btc from nowhere, though it has never happened to me yet :P

I haven't experience it yet, receiving bitcoin accidentally or randomly. But I hope that can happen to me. Lol. That would be great especially if the bitcoin I will be receiving is a huge amount. I will be very happy if ever that will happen :)

this is a reli xd event if it occurs on me

Hope.one day i won lottery of 1 or 2 btc, best thing if that happens ;)

I have, accidentally due to an advertising scheme of an old bitcoin startup. It's not only me who received the said bitcoin accidentally and that was way back 2015 and if I can recall correctly, it is 0.0001. Also, when the spam attack with dust outputs were made in 2015, I also received an amount of 0.01 accidentally however that was made out of dust outputs so I can't spent them since they are sent on my blockchain wallet.

Never happened to me, hahah.
If that happens, well.. not gonna lie I'll probably keep it, let's be honest.

I open my wallet every day hoping this will happen to me :D

Wait a second you are telling me suddenly 0.3777 btc appeard out of nowhere in your wallet. I don't think this has ever happened with anyone. Though i feel it could be some kind of viruses, I don't really know how it will work out, but I am sure it will mess your wallets, I would not suggest you to get continue to Check it. I am sure others would also suggest you to refrain from such Bitcoins. Hopefully they dissappear like they came, safe for your good.

I have never received a BTC at random, and I never expected it, we should make money by our own ability, do not expect luck. However, congratulations to those who have received BTC in such a way. You must be very happy and happy to have money. It is a blessing, and you should feel happy, although the sender will mistakenly feel sad, but we do not know who they are, so we can not return. enjoy it. :)

i don't have any experience for receiving btc accidentally, but i have experience in the past that in my local exchange, there is a quiz that allow us to give our wallet address and then the OP or the admin will choose one of us and fortunately, my wallet address is come to the one of the winner. after that the admin is randomly send the amount of btc but i am forgot how much i am received. i don't know its include gambling or not, but the amount is not big.

I've only received dust spam payments.. I think someone mentioned the Sochi olympic spam.. I remember that one. I guess the only way for it to really happen is if someone actually already has your address somewhere. Pretty hard to have a collision without extending the lifetime of the universe very, very far into the future.

I have never experienced such a bitcoin receiving. Expect to get some, but haven't got yet. But once had a worse situation in which some one made a trap for me and took my bitcoins. From that day I made myself not to loss in such manner than receiving from others.

I'm in bitcoin world just a year and something like that never happen to me. Unfortunately. But if to think such suddenly money is someone's loose and if sum is big it's just a disaster. So, I don't wish this suddenly someone's bitcoins.

No i never recieved btc accidentally or randomly. if i recieved btc by accident well i would be more glad. But i feel sorry for the people who send accidently there btc to other people because i experience that ! I accidentally sent in the wrong address. But whem the the time pass i feel alright and i learned my lesson.

How wrong? There's a chance that a typo adress might have been invalid, so transfer did not took place at all.
The randomness can be outruled, there are more adresses than atoms on earth literally.

I have encounter something like that, that my newly made Bitcoin wallet has something in it, but it is not from someone that has accidentally send it to the wrong address, but it is from my wallet admin for my newly added wallet and the referral link that I use, so that kind of issue has never really happen and never had a friend with that kind of experience.

This probability will be very small if it does not occur from human error in the transaction, regardless of fault of rich people also apply to beginner transactions. I ever had luck like this and there is absolutely no information whatsoever to refund option. I consider this a weakness Bitcoin because all the risk is borne personally.

Sometime ago i had a transaction that i dint know what it were, i thinked it were someone mistake, till i check my anonymous ad and confirm the transaction were a payment from them, anyway, nowadays makes no sense you get btc from others, since each person has a unique adress, soo to you receive any ammount someone were checking your transactions or something.

It happened to me once – I was just opening my wallet when I suddenly saw around 10K–20K satoshi payments arrived in patches at my address up to 0.002BTC. I was going to send them back to the address that sent them to me, but my wallet had gone crazy about the fees due to the huge input data size (it required 0.00126BTC to transfer the 0.002BTC  :P). I couldn't use it, nor send it back. I changed the wallet because of that.

Yeah once i received btc accidently, not a lot just some cents. I have never understand. It was in my coinbase wallet and as message there was something like "please, donate money for my studies, i am poor, bla bla bla, my btc adress: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" I guess the guy was sending cents to people randomly in hope someone really donate something. Well my advice to him if he is reading: if you are poor, start to not send money to people randomly

Love the honesty and I'd likely do the same unless I was somehow contacted and they seemed nice. Wishful thinking someone in BTC being nice I know.

We have. $10.00 once into a coinbase wallet.

No actually, but I have thought about, and it will be weird and very awkward. Also I would felt sad, because the money won't go there they have to go. :(

Nope. But that is something to be far from possible of happening, because all Bitcoin Addresses are unique in which you can easily remember the first and last 3 characters of your address and you will immediately notice something is wrong when one of the characters is not right (Well that is my personal technique of knowing my address. The only way I can think of that happening is when the sender is careless about sending Bitcoin to people. What I mean about that is they don't double check the address before confirming it.

I never received, but sometimes I have doubts if I received accidentally because I join many micro paying sites and sometimes I forgot about them, when they send me the money I can't remember from where or why did I receive that.
Some time later thinking about it I remember and I reach to the conclusion I didn't receive money randomly. But I don't complain about it, I don't want to receive others money for mistaken.

Aw what an amazing question?

But my luck never favors  :( . I never got this kind of opportunity. :'( . I wish I would have.

i also never receive such kind of money and never like to receive from any one accidentally.  as  i do not want any one in trouble it is very hared to bear the then money you have lost.

If it's such a small amount, I wouldn't even bother sending it back.
If we're talking about more than like 0.10 BTC, I'd make an effort to find the mistake, but anything less than that, I wouldn't worry about it personally.

Yes, it was happened to me last week or recently only, but not that as high like 0.3BTC something it was 0.035BTC came up to my wallet. I know it was a wrong sending bitcoin address. So my reaction was, wow! thank God! ;D

I have wished it happened but I have never witnessed it and even me too have never made that mistake except for when I was scammed but aside that, I am always careful so I expect anybody sending transactions to do same but I won't mind it happening to me though. Who won't want a free money?

I dreamed about getting Bitcoins by accident, since I cant buy them. But it never happened to me. I did get random 0.0002 Bitcoins a few times almost instantly when I created my wallet and adress,  I still do not know why it was.sent or who even did it, but I dont really care since its a few cents.

I have never received bitcoin accidentally. Yet, If I received some accidentally, I would immediately refund it to the adress which sent me.  ;)

That 0.002 is a smaller amount amount the sender will not need them to get back in their account and you also have not to send them back because if someone will send them from an exchange then you will send that money to a wrng address as exchanges use multiple addresses.

This is a very rare case and I haven't experienced it yet. And if you will think about it, our bitcoin addresses are unique and it's impossible for a sender to do a mistake to send it to another address without even knowing the real owner of that address. Well I want to experience it too but I know it is not going to happen to me.

Yeah.

Once I received like 0.00001 BTC in my wallet for no reason.

But soon I realised it was blockchain spam because the guy who sent it was advertising a gambling site or something like that... Can't remember the specifics.

They send small transactions to every address that is used, thus having cheap advertising.

Not really.
I've had Bitcoin sent to me through various Bitcoin exchanges when I placed a sell within the order book and different amounts of Bitcoin show up every week or so. Bitcoin is just the type of thing that allows us to set and forget when making a little bit of money on the side.
I've looked through people's Blockchain transactions and noticed a bunch of small amounts was being brought in from people all over the world and I'm sure that they didn't know them. Bitcoin is a very strange program that allows people to give away to charity addresses while staying anon.

I'm not sure if it's ok to say unfortunately or not :D.

I haven't received any BTC from a random sender and If I receive a random BTC from
a random sender, I would gladly return it, conscience might not let me sleep if I did not
return it to the sender.

Never had such an experience but i will gracefully try to return it especially if I'm able to establish contact with the sender. I've thought of it and I know how painful that will feel if I was in the person's shoes.

Yes i have experienced it already back in december last year.I have received a bitcoins worth of 0.0952+ bitcoins and i was shocked like who sent this off to me.It happened already 3x to me.One is on december last year the 0.0952 and in february i received an 0.1 bitcoin and last week i received an 0.03 bitcoin.All from unkown addresses

Precisely, the vast majority of people it is sometimes difficult to know where they can get exactly what they get. In this case it is a question of the address of the bitcoin, where sometimes we rush or not check back on our btc addresses. So sometimes the BTC is supposed to enter into our wallet, be forfeited due to our carelessness. One of the things that could help us to remember the address of the btc is to see 3 numbers/letters that are on the front and back of our btc addresses.
 

For my self i only experience this once in my life when i wake up one morning in june 2016.I accidentally and randomly receive an transaction worth 264$ and i was like am i dreaming but it was real.I check up all my exchange website to check if i withdraw some funds but its not from one of my accounts and its from an anonymous wallet

Same as you, I also get free bitcoin from random people and it is around 1 bitcoin, when i saw it i was shocked because i think that it is just a bug in the wallet but when i tried to transfer it to another wallet, it works and in that time, i was very confused because i don't know where it came from but i accepted and use it on trading.

I think I am waiting for the long time for someone to mistakenly send me some, you know, to experience it, but no one is not mistakenly sending me bitcoin, and even if I have ever received bitcoins, that is not for me, I will be sending it back, to my another wallet. Hahaha

I think that is an accidental wallet transfer and it is not intentional well the person to receive something like this was consider lucky well it never happens to me and I thought it can not happen in every aspect but seeing guys like you claiming they are getting random bitcoins are amazing, I think the side where the bitcoin come from are the ones that are having a problem, or they just copy paste multiple BTC address and never had check on them.

I only lost my coin when sent to scam person! Never received BTC accidentally or randomly

Not at all.I have not received any btc accidentally.I think chances are very less to happen like that.But what could happen is extra amount could be sent mistakenly,for example 0.1 btc instead of 0.01 btc.

Yes i did receive 0.01 btc once  ;D ::) but i didn't keep the amount. First i thought of sending the amount back to the address i received from but i felt that i should first contact the owner but i never really found whose coins it was so instead i ended up keeping the coins with myself

Unfortunately no. But my friend once opened his old wallet and found out someone had send him 0.2 BTC for no reason.
Maybe someday I'll be that lucky.

well i never received any bitcoin accidentally or randomly because it happen very rare and sometimes people done this mistake who are very careless.but if i received any bitcoin then i will send it back,because i don't like to enjoy on someone's money.

Never. Because bitcoin addresses has too much numbers and letters in it. It also has some big and small letters in it. So there is 0.0000001% in your entire life to receive random bitcoin to send it to your account. Thats my opinion. And mostly bitcoin users tend to use copy and pasting addresses in sending bitcoin.

Is not a frequent thing

No it has never happened to me something like that, the chances of that happening are very low since the addresses of bitcoin are so complex that almost anyone will try to type it so the only thing you need to do is to copy paste it.

Accidentally and Randomly are two very different scenarios. The first implies that you weren't supposed to receive the coin to begin with.

I just received some coin randomly last week. I got a about BTC0.01 in a referral bonus for someone who just opened a Coinbase account. The really random part is that I don't know how the person is that I "referred". They must have gotten my referral link from an old post or from a friend!

Getting BTC0.3 randomly is wild if it happened recently, not so much if it happened years ago. Did this actually happen to you or is it an example?

No, I haven't received such. When I hear of things like this they sound like fairytales to me. Anyway, I cant be sure how I would react if I get Bitcoins from anonymous donors wrongly sent me. But I will like it  to come above 1btc when that happens.

Indeed I will be very happy if I receive bitcoin accidentally obviously I don't think that gonna happen because of how bitcoin is being transacted from one wallet to another I.e after transfer some ex-changer request for hashcode of the transaction.

I wouldn’t take liberties like that with someone else’s money. Besides what if you lose instead of win?
Technically the money is yours now because its in your wallet but if you have any sense of morals you should return it. That money could have been for an important purpose and they may not have more. Even if they do have plenty more that’s no excuse. The concept though is sort of fun to think about.

This could happened like 2% out of 100 if you can see your bitcoin address it's like a hell of mix numbers and letter .,
So almost impossible to get a randomly bitcoin that you can receive but can happen when they already know your address ..,
When your sending bitcoin to others ahahah I know your very careful placing where it will be sent so like other they more careful to send it to right destination.,So just earn a bitcoin and stop hoping that you will receive bitcoin one day,,
But Goodluck.

I am not that lucky that I can receive any amount of bitcoin accidentally or randomly and that was possible in the past when people were new to bitcoins and would send at wrong address but now people will check twice before sending their bitcoins so now in current scenario I don't think anyone would get any amount of bitcoins randomly.

No , I never got any amount of bitcoin yet because this about impossible to get bitcoin my mistake Because only those persons can send bitcoin at your adress by mistake who already made deals with your or you are in Thier network , otherwise it is totally impossible for a person to got bitcoin magically by anyone​ mistake .
As we can understand daily new address created and daily lakh of address got inactive but still owner of the user is remain the same , whether he use or not the bitcoin .

I don't receive bitcoin accidentally or randomly because that is seems impossible for me because how can a person send bitcoin randomly without having any issues, I mean the address or bitcoin addresses are so different and unique and just a small space or wrong character that has been changed in the bitcoin address will be invalid and that is why it is impossible to received bitcoin randomly.

I never got any amount of Bitcoin accidentally or randomly. It is not possible if I have to get any Bitcoin some have to sent me this coin. It is not possible Because every one have their own unique address and also if we make any mistake also it shows error.   

Ive recieved a bitcoin on a ghost wallet one time . And after an hour some one messages me here in the forum. He said he make a mistake on copying a bitcoin wallet . He is so thankful because I sent back the ghost bitcoin I recieved on my wallet. Im glad that I help on such a simple way.

I have never received any btc accidentally or randomly till that as I feel that its impossible to happen as everyone will recheck the address before sending their bitcoins but I always have a dream that I should receive a huge amount of bitcoins accidentally which can change my life.

Not actually, but yes I have received some bitcoins as a surprise. As I have opted in for yobit signature campaign, I found a bug in the system a few months ago and without having any idea, they sent me 0.1 bitcoins as the reward for the discovery of the bug. It was not an accident but sort of it.

I have also mentioned the story here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1701611.0

But it does happen sometimes, I mean, if you have had a transaction with someone a long time ago, then he accidentally copied your bitcoin wallet and pasted it on the "sending" address, then that is how things happen, when you are accidentally received some random bitcoin from somebody, though just like you, I've never experience something like this since I started earning bitcoin last year.

You're lucky if you are going to receive some from somebody, especially if it is a big amount of bitcoin like 1-2 bitcoin, or even more.

That would be a happy accident won't it? But no, nothing like that ever happened to me.

It happened to me twice. The first one was from a unknown address I received 0.0001btc and there was a message on the txid mentioning about a website. The second time happened on a gambling site when I made a deposit(0.02btc) my balance came in but it was doubled I was surprised and double checked my transaction history just to make sure but I didn't used the extra balance I just wait for their support to notice it so they could deduct it from my remaining balance.

Well you are one lucky guy brother! well that is not all coincidence well I think it all happens for a reason, well the first BTC you have receive was 0.0001 mentioning a website I think you are not aware that you have site that give BTC and you are the one that are lucky to claim something from them well that is just a speculation, and in the 0.02 btc on the gambling site that is double maybe that is an extra reward given to you or an anniversary gift for player, well just backing up your story I just put a fact of event that might happen?

This never happens in me that someone accidentally sent bitcoin in my wallet. I wish I had but none so far, wheh I learned bitcoin no one really sent in my wallet lol. But you are a lucky one indeed, you may grow your bitcoin so you can earn well.

lol i never received yet.may be in the future i hope i received 1 BTC randomly..who knows some body copying my address in any case and forgot to copying his address then put it in his withdrawall  ;D ;D

is this the transfer fee?u open the wallet,so you help conformation the transfer and you got  the fee?

How I wish it should just happened because it has never happened to me before but eventually when it will, I hope its a reasonable amount and not the 0.0001 or 0.0002 I am seeing here. Its has happened to me in the case of Fiat, in which I had to return but dont know if I will be able to do same if the owner can find a way to reach me though, I can then consider it.

Dont expect too much out of this situation because these would happen on slim chances since we do know people do seldom make mistakes on transfering bitcoin on other wallets.Same here i didnt expect too much that a certain transfer would mistakenly come to my wallet with decent amounts.I would be happy for sure and i would not give it back to the owner haha since its his own mistake to make wrong transfers.

I have not received bitcoin accidentally but if by mistake I received some bitcoin in my wallet I will have to return it to the owner I.e it may be a wrong transaction from someone else. I think we should be exhibit trust and honesty to ourselves.

I do not believe what you say, although it is a humanitarian act. Bitcoin is a virtual currency, it's free and does not have any definite information about transactions, we can not know for sure who the person who sent it to us, so pay For the owner is an impossible thing. Maybe you will be lucky to get some cash, but I myself do not want that to happen, I do not want to receive money from other people if I do not do anything for them.

How I wish it happens, but ever since I have found my way into bitcoin, I have never receive any free deposit any amount I receive, there is always a source of it either prior to the receipt or after it. Aside attack because I have heard about that where you copy an address to send to but you are sending to another address, I dont think anyone can willingly make such mistake to send huge amount to another address. So, for those hoping including myself, you need to wait a little longer.

I have never been in this situation receiving a random amount from a random address that is un expected.But i know some of my friends experience this and they receive some good free money from their wallet that they received from nowhere

I knew friends sending some btc accidentally on wrong address, regret hits him hard, so better make sure whenever sending btc,be sure to send it on the right address, it is fine if were the receiver if not better double check first.I don't if there were some instances if we can ask the address to return the btc,but I know this would be hard.

Indeed this could be an impossible if indeed you have never felt how to get BTC for free or how you send the wrong addres with BTC. For there is no man in this world who never make mistakes, sometimes things can be the cause of someone wrong in sending the BTC is they do copy addres recklessly when they are going to do shipping BTC. Yeah indeed it's very silly, stupid or unreasonable. But the thing I had ever experienced and I get free BTC 0.15
 

and when that time comes bitcoin already 5k $ in price what would be your reaction buds? ahahhaa, but me i hope that would not happen because the person who made a mistake will suffer and for sure he will regrets the mistake for the rest of his life, its so enjoying reading more and more answer regarding to OP's question different points of view..

I experienced it on a pay day on signature campaign I thought that the amount given to me is doubled or wrong. So I don't think of other reason of a big payment because on that day my salary should 0.0075 only but I accepted 0.0175 then I thought It is just a mistake but then I realized  the every end of the month there is a bonus which was actually happened that day. So when I get to know that I become positive to do more on posting because there is always a bonus every end of a month.