You open up Electrum and decide to create a fresh new Bitcoin wallet. You generate the seed, write it down and finish the wallet creation process.
As soon as your wallet loads up, you are in complete shock: your balance is
28,151.05669176 BTC. You are the lucky one to get past the astronomically low, close to zero chance to ever generate an already used wallet. Now you have one of the richest dormant wallets out there.
What do you do?Well, ethically it would be rather simple: find out if you stumbled upon this wallet by sheer "accident" or because of a flaw somewhere in the RNG. A flaw would be for more likely than a complete random "accident".
If a flaw was found, you'd probably have to move those funds to a wallet generated by an unflawed RNG, and try to find out the actual owner to return his funds... If it was a freak accident, you'd have to delete the wallet and never look back.
Offcourse, that's the correct ethical part. Many people have financial problems, lost their jobs due to corona, have mortgage payments, are unsure what the future will bring for their children... Personally, i think i'd do the right thing, but i'd rather not be tempted with enough money to pay off my mortgage, stop working, make sure my daughter nor her (potential, future) children will ever have to worry about money ever again... In reality, i have no idear if i'd be able to take the high road, eventough i sincerely hope i would... I'm pretty sure that if i stumbled upon a wallet that was actively used, i'd be able to do the right thing, but in this case it's a dormant one, which makes it harder.
