I know how this sounds,.. but I swear it's true... I saw and picked up what I thought was an odd looking piece of card in a dbl sealed plastic pocket whilst walking my dogs! The card inside was wet but legible and after drying it out I discovered it was a paper wallet (I have no idea about bitcoin or wallets aside from what I have discovered over last 24hrs,... which has led me here).
The paper wallet has 0.6 BTC. Some strange things have been known to wash up on this beach. I suspect it was stolen and dumped by an ignorant burglar. It's there any way to identify from whom it came so I can return it? It seems pointless handing it into the police if they'll just destroy it....
I am in Victoria, Australia.
Thx
If you want to sell the Bitcoin without problems with exchanges, use a P2P decentralized exchange such as
https://bisq.network/.
I don't think it is stolen since online criminals would just cash out the Bitcoin they stole and not run around with a paper seed of the coins.
But since there's no way to know who they belong to, keep them for yourself and / or sell them. Just be aware that centralized exchanges can easily freeze your account and you will have no way of proving origin of funds. However if you sell it little by little on Bisq, you will be golden.