Quote from: rico666 on October 11, 2016, 08:07:22 AM

Quote from: yo-blin on October 05, 2016, 08:43:10 AM

Hi I stay gift on the secret page directory.io for check
I think it will be found this about one week Wink

You wrote this October 5th and although a week is almost over,
I assume you are not talking about
https://blockchain.info/address/1PVwqUXrD5phy6gWrqJUrhpsPiBkTnftGg
because this has been deposited in May 2014.

I swear I have nothing to do with this address - except my client found its private key tonight!

I must admit, I am still quite puzzled, because if things are as they seem (to me), this would be the 1st real (like in real real) PK found by the pool. Is this for real or am I still not fully awake?

Damned be the TODO - I thought we would have more time to sort that out.

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Ok, how to proceed if I find something?

The most important thing is to handle your knowledge about the found private key as if it was yours. I.e. under no circumstances is that key to be announced anywhere publicly. You may have good intentions, but you never know who's listening. See if you can contact the person behind the address you have found the key to. TODO: Reference to a best practice approach of contacting the owner has to be elaborated/added.

I know - I wrote this text, but it is bad. So what will be the process? I looked up various European national regulations for finders-keepers.
There is a deadline of 6 months after which the finder gains the ownership if the original owner does not show up or make a claim.
If the value of the found is less than 10EUR (Germany), this deadline runs from the day found which would be today.
Still, the original owner can claim it back for a period of 3 years. Here's what I think - so far - should be done:

I transferred the funds to 16cFBcM27DGriyvz5i8SLmd8n5ai8hCTEE
When the confirmations are through, I may or may not (should I? What are the pros/cons?) publish the PK
I have of course no intention to keep these funds (like $5 dollar atm)
If the rightful owner does show up within the 6-month period, I will even round up that sum to 0.01 BTC and give that back.
If no one will show up within the 6 months, the funds will go as pool bounty to its members.
If - after that - the owner should appear within 3 years, I will transfer these 0.007899 BTC back to him regardless

Phew. I'm glad this has happened with such a small sum. Honestly, I pulled this process out of my nose today morning, so I'd really really appreciate if the Bitcoin community could work out some "standard" to this. I've looked up the forums and this case seems so exotic, that most of the takes on it is really just nonsense blah blah.

So:

How can one make clear he is actually the rightful owner? Just stating "It's me" obviously won't cut it.
It may very well be, that he used an entirely different PK (of the 2⁹⁶) for this address (because this one is a little bit shitty), so I assume providing ANOTHER PK to this address would count as good proof - wouldn't it?

Rico

Firstly, what you claim you've found is not a collision. Hence the name of your 'project' is misleading. And secondly, how will you prove the 'rightful' owner of the PK you've found is actually not... you?