Quote from: DireWolfM14 on August 06, 2022, 09:43:27 PM

If I find a brick of gold that had been buried on my property which I've owned for many years, I'd consider that brick of gold mine, all mine. But if instead, I found a piece of paper with a bank account number, username, and password, I would shred it. There's obviously a difference between those items.

Depending on law in some countries, believe it or not, if you want gold buried in your property you are not the owner of that gold, especially if it has some history behind it (ancient gold or silver coins, etc.).
So if you want to be good little boy, you need to pay taxes on gold you found and in some cases you need to give it to state.
Let's not forget that not long time ago, US government confiscated gold from people, made it illegal and exchanged it with IOY paper.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 05:50:32 AM

There is a clear difference between stealing and finding something which you then give back to its rightful owner. There is much less of a difference between stealing and finding something which you then keep for yourself, despite it not belonging to you.

Again the same.... look think what you want.
I can even choose to create a wallets and drop them all around the world, it's my choice and freedom.
If I don't write my contact details you are free to use them, and we saw similar examples and games many time of people giving away Bitcoins.

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on Today at 05:50:32 AM

I am curious if you would be fine with someone emptying all your wallets if they accidentally found your seed phrase back up (ignore for the sake of this example any passphrases, multi-sig, etc.) How would that be any different to OP emptying this paper wallet that he found?

I clearly said that I would return all money and contact original owner in case I found a wallet.
In case someone finds my seed phrase I would be fine with them trying to empty and send everything, let them try.
Only person I would be angry is myself for not properly protecting it, and it's not so hard to do it with passphrases and multisig.
I guess I am just not they type of person that blames other people for everything that happens in my life.

Quote from: Pmalek on Today at 07:11:07 AM

You are being very weird about your definition of finding. You can find a mushroom in the forest and take it and probably no one would care. You can't find a bike leaning on a tree or a wall and say I found it so it's now mine. I didn't steal it from anyone, it was just there when I was walking by. Finding and not taking it or not keeping it for yourself is totally different from finding and stealing an item.

Difference is only in your mind.
There are mushrooms much more worth than a bike, I could plant White Truffle and Yartsa Gunbu that are worth a fortune...so now you stole my mushrooms in forest right?
Someone is taking your money with taxes all the time and it's perfectly fine with you, yeah I guess that's ok because it's state doing it Roll Eyes