Found BTCs?

[aceking]

just keep them

[bigdude]

can always donate to charity 

[Este Nuno]

You guys are getting trolled.

There was no btc close to ten years ago and pools are a new thing.

Op is full of shit.

Yes, and it's a really weak trolling effort as well.

[prophetx]

So I just got into NameCoins b/c my mining pool is now also issuing those.  I went to register at a namecoin exchange and got an error that my email was already in use.  Weird, i thought, but I guess I could have set up an account without remembering it.  I went to retrieve my password and logged into the account without problem (it was a password reset so I have no idea if it's one of my typical passwords or not).  Funny thing is that once I logged in, there were BTC there and NMC and all sorts of other currency there that I have no recollection of putting there.  We're talking a pretty big amount, even if it was from a decade ago when I dabbled in BTC and then forgot about it, there is no way I had that many.  We're off by a few orders of magnitude.

I figured that they were accidentally transmitted to a wrong address or something, but since BTC is untraceable, how do I return this money?

There is one more possibility, which is someone used my email address to signup for an account.  The email I use for this account is something very generic, like bob@yahoo.com (not actually it, but as an example).  Could this actually be an active account that someone is using with a fake email address?

What do I do here?

send me 100BTC and I will tell you where they came from 

[johnyj]

So I just got into NameCoins b/c my mining pool is now also issuing those.  I went to register at a namecoin exchange and got an error that my email was already in use.  Weird, i thought, but I guess I could have set up an account without remembering it.  I went to retrieve my password and logged into the account without problem (it was a password reset so I have no idea if it's one of my typical passwords or not).  Funny thing is that once I logged in, there were BTC there and NMC and all sorts of other currency there that I have no recollection of putting there.  We're talking a pretty big amount, even if it was from a decade ago when I dabbled in BTC and then forgot about it, there is no way I had that many.  We're off by a few orders of magnitude.

I figured that they were accidentally transmitted to a wrong address or something, but since BTC is untraceable, how do I return this money?

There is one more possibility, which is someone used my email address to signup for an account.  The email I use for this account is something very generic, like bob@yahoo.com (not actually it, but as an example).  Could this actually be an active account that someone is using with a fake email address?

What do I do here?

Just contact the exchange owner and see what history they got on their sever regarding this account. Bitcoin is honest money, so should bitcoin users If indeed no one has touched those coins for ages then you can claim them

[AliceWonder]

You guys are getting trolled.

There was no btc close to ten years ago and pools are a new thing.

Op is full of shit.

Yes, and it's a really weak trolling effort as well.

I make that mistake all the time. As in something that happened 5 years ago will seem like a decade to me and come out that way.
Not all of us are good at making time estimates in our head even when it should be obvious. Different minds work different ways.

[malevolent]

When BTC first came out we were years away from the first pool.
The guy is clearly trolling and has no idea about BTC history.

Exactly, he could have at least prepared better 

There was no Bitcoin a 'decade ago'.

There was no Bitcoin '5 or 6 years ago' either.

AFAIR slush set up the first mining pool in December 2010 (2.5 years ago).

[junglist.massive]

dirty digital money
this is how we roll!

[QuestionAuthority]

When BTC first came out we were years away from the first pool.
The guy is clearly trolling and has no idea about BTC history.

Exactly, he could have at least prepared better 

There was no Bitcoin a 'decade ago'.

There was no Bitcoin '5 or 6 years ago' either.

AFAIR slush set up the first mining pool in December 2010 (2.5 years ago).

Sadly slush does not have all sorts of alt coins so rules them out. But OP... What a fool.

Goat you fucked up! You don't just come out and call someone a troll because you know it to be true. You troll them back. Hasn't the past year of trolling Matthew taught you anything? lol

You've been trolling him the wrong way since the website deal fell through. I could give you some instruction for a small fee. rofl

BTW: You're use of written English has vastly improved over the last two years. I'm impressed.

[larem]

Just because my interest has been piqued... what kind of balances are we talking about here.  I'd like to know how envious I should be.

Just wanted to say... you're the first person I've seen (out of hundreds) that knows how to spell piqued properly. Most type "peaked" or "peeked."

[bitbybit2]

It is like a dime in the street. You pick it up and throw it back again.

[neurobox]

I have the opposite problem, I'm sure I mined a bunch years ago, but can't find a single account anywhere with it, so I know one way you can make it ethically right...

[nutica]

I use for my actual stuff and is a throwaway email so I'm not too worried.  But I'm guessing that since there is no way to figure out where it came from (and

Which email service did you used? If you used a disposable email service like mailinator or guerrillamail then I know a possible answer to this mystery.

[bitbybit2]

Bitcoin guy with a conscience.

[bitbybit2]

Bitcoin guy with a conscience.

[mprep]

Bitcoin guy with a conscience.

You double posted. Also this whole story seems unlikely. People don't usually leave lots of bitcoins, that are worth a LOT of cold hard cash, lying around.

[exogan]

So I just got into NameCoins b/c my mining pool is now also issuing those.  I went to register at a namecoin exchange and got an error that my email was already in use.  Weird, i thought, but I guess I could have set up an account without remembering it.  I went to retrieve my password and logged into the account without problem (it was a password reset so I have no idea if it's one of my typical passwords or not).  Funny thing is that once I logged in, there were BTC there and NMC and all sorts of other currency there that I have no recollection of putting there.  We're talking a pretty big amount, even if it was from a decade ago when I dabbled in BTC and then forgot about it, there is no way I had that many.  We're off by a few orders of magnitude.

I figured that they were accidentally transmitted to a wrong address or something, but since BTC is untraceable, how do I return this money?

There is one more possibility, which is someone used my email address to signup for an account.  The email I use for this account is something very generic, like bob@yahoo.com (not actually it, but as an example).  Could this actually be an active account that someone is using with a fake email address?

What do I do here?

1. BTC isn't untraceable, you can ask the exchange for the TXIDs that were generated when the specified address got the deposits ( most exchanges if not all, generate custom addresses for each user ). You can also check your deposit address on the blockchain to see from where the inputs came.

2. The idea that somebody actually sent BTC to a wrong address is almost as plausible as choosing a random number out of a pool of billions of different numbers and guess it.

3. Everything about this post sounds fishy.

[neurobox]

...
3. Everything about this post sounds fishy.

Smells off, I agree, but unless it's someone making a case for plausible deniability WRT ill-gotten gains, I don't see how such a thread could lead to any kind of con job..