Is stealing Bitcoin illegal?

[useless4]

I would hope so 
After all bitcoin is equal to money. Cause what if someone who ran a ponzi scheme and took in 250 BTC from people. Would that not be seen as a crime? That is theft I would say for sure and maybe even a conviction of fraud directed towards the investors of that scheme.

I dont think stealing bitcoins is illegal because they dont even know what to think about the bitcoin them self is that not illegal i dont think they can track your coins back so if they steal it ylou cant get them back and that is the most reason why people are also using more walllets.

what, are you fucking crazy or what? dont talk like that as there will be more thieves then and besides that it is definitely not legal to steal other people property

[karachi dolphen]

yes stealing of bitcoin is illegal just like stealing of money,

[Yutikas_11920]

yes stealing of bitcoin is illegal just like stealing of money,

It is very true friend, something that can harm someone, such as taking someone, we borrowed but not telling you, etc is something that is illegal and it is included in the category of theft. If it was illegal then we will not get a thing happiness wherever, stays on the right track and never tempted by the lure of that have no meaning in the afterlife

[Barbut]

Still talking about something that everyone agree about. OP need to lock this thread, conclusion is that every stealing is illegal, no matter what.
With that conclusion (op need to add it in headline) everyone knows opinion of community. I doubt that will stop thiefs and scammers, but at least we try something to do about it. Rising awareness can help people to not fall in their traps.

[Hohenn]

Still talking about something that everyone agree about. OP need to lock this thread, conclusion is that every stealing is illegal, no matter what.
With that conclusion (op need to add it in headline) everyone knows opinion of community. I doubt that will stop thiefs and scammers, but at least we try something to do about it. Rising awareness can help people to not fall in their traps.

I completely agree, although after reading the thread it's kind of worries me to think that a thief or scammer thinks it's okay to steal bitcoin just because it thinks that just cause it might not be considered ''real money'' it's not illegal and hence ok to do. The best we can do to fight it as you said is raise awareness and educate people to take smart decisions.

[Sweetbtc]

If you look at the payout breakdown of the Cryptsy case, you will see that there were only three Cryptos that the court considered a "value commodity". 
It is funny that they do not seem to understand that the information in a properly formed smart contract can only be gotten under the circumstances of the contract completion and only by the proper holder of whatever "key" was used in the write-up, obvisouly, in most cases, a private key. I am not sure what the investigation did to the database and if the information even still exists, but some of those contracts will never be opened.

[lakisis]

yes its really illegal to stealing of bitcoin i think normally everything stealing is illegal so we can steal bitcoin or other thing from other its surely illegal.

[Crazygreek]

In countries when bitcoin is illegal, i think it's not illegal to steal it but anyway when you reciving this bitocoins you becoming a criminal lol

[ardentvolcanoes]

Let's say I generate a new address and by some miracle it has Bitcoin already in it belonging to somebody else. Is it legal to just take it? I understand those odds are very low, no need to lecture me, I'm just interested.

if it is by accident i thinks you cannot call it stealing and it is not considered as illegal .   it would be illegal if you literally stole it by hacking his bitcoin wallet through phishing or whatever can be a way to access his belonging . you just give the example that you have generated a new address and by miracle it already has a bitcoin in it , so you don't need to be worried you should be thankful because of that accident . haha  

[socks435]

yes its really illegal to stealing of bitcoin i think normally everything stealing is illegal so we can steal bitcoin or other thing from other its surely illegal.

I never heard that stealing bitcoin is illegal but its a bad thing that you are stealing money by someone if you do that maybe you can be arrested by NBI.
. for now its hard to still bitcoins right now because i know we have a good security right now unless if there is other people are trying to bruteforcing your account.. i just heard that many people are still try to have using bruteforce i tried bruteforce before in cellphone when they are forgot the password but those tool is from our boss who because i am just a technician..
So stealing is not illegal..

[parthack9]

Stealing is always Illegal, weather not you will get caught is another story.

[Gaswuwade]

Stealing "anything" is illegal, Bitcoin is a commodity at worst if you don't consider it a currency therefore stealing it is the same as stealing the money it is worth, Bitcoin scammers rarely are followed through with there scammed amounts because deals are mostly anonymous and online.

[phreaky]

Let's say I generate a new address and by some miracle it has Bitcoin already in it belonging to somebody else. Is it legal to just take it? I understand those odds are very low, no need to lecture me, I'm just interested.

Of course stealing Bitcoin is illegal because stealing means taking some that does not belong to you and it does not matter if it is in real life or on the internet.
The only thing is that people who steal via the internet get away with it.

[dunfida]

Still talking about something that everyone agree about. OP need to lock this thread, conclusion is that every stealing is illegal, no matter what.
With that conclusion (op need to add it in headline) everyone knows opinion of community. I doubt that will stop thiefs and scammers, but at least we try something to do about it. Rising awareness can help people to not fall in their traps.

I completely agree, although after reading the thread it's kind of worries me to think that a thief or scammer thinks it's okay to steal bitcoin just because it thinks that just cause it might not be considered ''real money'' it's not illegal and hence ok to do. The best we can do to fight it as you said is raise awareness and educate people to take smart decisions.

Well for those type of people they are really going to think about that scamming or stealing bitcoin is going to be fine at all. As they are getting their source from that way. But if there are going to be some international law about bitcoin stealing by the interpol for sure they are going to stop from fooling other people.

Its impossible for that there are authorities  or police that would mind to arrest in these kind of situation since bitcoin is mostly banned from  other countries and didnt even considered and for sure  theres a possibility that  they even  hear the name of bitcoin. Lets accept it that there are really people who scam others people on the sake of gaining  money in easy way.

[pinkpanther03]

Its illegal to still bitcoin and its a bad thing that you doing and you may receive a bad karma in the future if you do that..
Better to look for a legit way if you want to earn bitcoins many ways to earn bitcoin.

Any world of ILLEGAL is a bad behavior, Nothing good into it. But earning bitcoins in a legal way of matter whatever it is, it is a good way to earn bitcoin. Aside from that there are many things in this field were we can earn in a legal way like in signature campaign, faucets etc.

[relq]

Of courise stealing bitcoin is illegal. Everything about stealing is illegal and on bitcoin too. I think stealing bitcoin is same stealing money in real life. But the different is there is no law about stealing bitcoin on bitcoin world.

[fravia]

yes stealing of bitcoin is illegal just like stealing of money,

It is very true friend, something that can harm someone, such as taking someone, we borrowed but not telling you, etc is something that is illegal and it is included in the category of theft. If it was illegal then we will not get a thing happiness wherever, stays on the right track and never tempted by the lure of that have no meaning in the afterlife

yeah, stealing is definitely not allowed and it is a wrong thing to do, in my opinion it should be punishable with jail maybe

[Provably Fair Directory]

You have the answer in the subject "stealing" is never legal

[crairezx20]

yes stealing of bitcoin is illegal just like stealing of money,

It is very true friend, something that can harm someone, such as taking someone, we borrowed but not telling you, etc is something that is illegal and it is included in the category of theft. If it was illegal then we will not get a thing happiness wherever, stays on the right track and never tempted by the lure of that have no meaning in the afterlife

yeah, stealing is definitely not allowed and it is a wrong thing to do, in my opinion it should be punishable with jail maybe

Its punishable and it can bring to the jail but the problem is we dont know their real name and where they are live..
Thats why people who are scamming and hacking they are abuisng the internet.. and the anonymous of bitcoin..

[puremage111]

yeah "Stealing" has never been made legal