So, guys and ladies..
I was thinking of something to discuss here, something that may likely not happen, but still very realistic and with slim chances of it happening, so, this idea came into my head, and I've actually asked myself this question over and over again, and the Answer in my head made me discover that, I may not actually trust myself completely to do the right thing at all times, and I can't really explain how it makes me feel..
So, I am going to ask you guys the same question, and one thing I ask of is, that we all look inward ourself, look outward as well, think about how far this can take you in life, and your family as well, and be very honest with your answer.
THE QUESTION
Lets say you woke one morning, and decided to check one of your wallets, and amazingly, you found $1 million dollars worth of bitcoin sitting there, this money was mistakenly sent to your wallet from a wallet address you do not know who it belongs to, but you are very sure it's not from an exchange.
What will you do?
Will you immediately sent the money back to the address it came from?
Or would you keep and spend it?
Or would you just it leave it for a very long time with touching it? If yes, for how long are you going to leave it? And at the end, what will you still do?
Lets have a good discussion on this please..
So I get sent 25 btc that does not belong to me.
If it is sent to a clean address that I know is still anonymous it is a different case then if it is sent to an address I know is not private.
here is an address I know is traceable
1FAdsGRPiurSd7Mg86yiG7pvmyED2yo6pg if it is sent here I would contact a lawyer as I know eventually the funds will be traced to me.
the address below is fresh and it was not traceable to me
1QAiVU1sr9DaPwnU7JEZLVSLsC9hELjfGt
It is now obvious that it is traceable to me.
But let's say I did not post it and was using it to mine solo. So it was still empty and not traceable
If the funds went there I would know no one would know who owns the address. This would be really tempting as it would very likely have been an accidental entry and someone would be freaking out.
I likely would move it one time to a new fresh address as it could be a collision (really next to impossible) and it could mean someone else could access it.
A super rare never proven event but it is possible.
So once I moved it to a new address> I would look to see if info turns up about an accidental 25 coin send.
I would not be waiting a few weeks to cash it out.
BTW I mine to this address.
https://pool.laurentiapool.org/#/user/146UJM5kgzLVUV23CXCf33KQKHckoX1gx3https://pool.laurentiapool.org/#/minersI know sometimes very high fees are accidentally sent.
and this pool pays fees out of if the fees were 100 btc and I got 35 coins I would get a lawyer as I know that address is known to be mine.
I would announce I got the fees and do exactly what was needed to return them. I can not vouch for the others that would share those fees.
But that pool would send the fees directly to the 4 addresses on the list. I would get 35 percent of the fees.
As USA citizen that reports mining coins I would do what I need to do to be tax compliant