You are acting like you are morally perfect man and you didn't do anything wrong in your life, and that is ok, but I don't understand what this has to do with things mentioned before.
But the fact remains that if you take bitcoin which belong to someone else, then you are stealing.
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So let's say you use certain Bitcoin mixer, and you end up with my ''stolen'' coins from paper wallet, that also makes you a criminal and a thief, right??
Since you are big anti-tainting proponent for Bitcoin it's strange that you are so much forcing that FINDING something on the ground is steeling, just because government law say it's stealing.
I don't understand why you keep bringing up taxes and the government, as it is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, especially when you know very well my disdain for governments and their surveillance regimes. I have never stated that OP should hand over the wallet to his government, but taking the funds for himself is still theft.
It's not irrelevant because they made a law saying that is illegal and they educated you about that on TV or in educational system.
I mean use common sense please, don't rewrite dictionaries.