Is stealing Bitcoin illegal?

[Basteamore]

Taking something that is not yours is really illegal may it be bitcoin or anything that you take without any authority from the owner. In the case you've given wherein you accidentally have bitcoin in your wallet upon generating it and you don't know who gave it then it is not stealing because there is no intention. But a chance of this happening is near to impossible.

[Lesterexon]

Any stealing act for anything to anyone is still illegal wether it is online pr not.All stealing avt is considered a crime as long as you dont have permissions of the real owner

The real owner? Who decides that if it's possible for me to generate the same address? Just because I generated it after shouldn't mean it's illegal. It's not like exploiting an online wallet to steal private keys and drain the accounts.

I feel like you guys are just guessing to be honest, I want to know if it's legal or illegal to take bitcoins out of an address you just generated.

I dont think stealing bitcoins can be caught because when you steal bitcoins you cant do anything with it because he is untraceable so the owner of that bitcoin does not know that you have his bitcoin,

[Maxsumi]

I dont think that you can get caught by stealing bitcoins if it is bad or illegal off course you cant steal  things from people you know and that is really bad lots of peopel dont know much about the security of the bitcoin.

[lol3c]

Taking something that is not yours is really illegal may it be bitcoin or anything that you take without any authority from the owner. In the case you've given wherein you accidentally have bitcoin in your wallet upon generating it and you don't know who gave it then it is not stealing because there is no intention. But a chance of this happening is near to impossible.

Yup, this is a very strange coincidence, the chance of this to happen is one-in-a-billion so it's tricky to tell if this action is illegal or not. And I think we don't have to worry whether this issue is wright or wrong because the OP didn't do anything that could be called against the law.

[wahb]

yes it is legal and there is no doubt about this. i think ever one has the right to use bitcoin according to their own wishes.

[carlisle1]

it would be impossible that someone to steal your bitcoin unless they've hacked your account or your wallet or they really an access to your wallet so the best thing to ever do is do not trust anyone so far, i haven't experienced that until , but if i do it would bring so much rage and i would be eager to catch him so i can beat him up