Re: I found a paper wallet on a beach ... seriously

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 04:41:15 PM

Quote from: dkbit98 on Today at 03:06:53 PM

Printed address starting with 1LMy3... has total deposits of only 0.15 BTC if you look in blockchain explorer, and coins are flagged as fraudulent or scams.

I don't believe in "taint", that's BS Tongue

Aside from that, 1LMy3vemjaA46SATjZp9FfVSkUA8QiYjgE holds 0.01528957BTC.

Same here. Where I spend my Bitcoin, they will accept these coins, so to me such a wallet would literally be free money. $300 USD can buy a cool new SSD for a node or something. I don't see the scam.
Heck, I could just open a Lightning node with someone and provide some more LN liquidity. I've got to see nodes closing channels that were opened towards them with 'blacklisted' coins.

I find it amusing that the first few Reddit replies don't even mention that 'blacklisted' isn't really a thing in Bitcoin, like at all. 'Which blacklist?', should be the first question popping up.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 04:41:15 PM

Quote from: cryptosize on Today at 03:56:59 PM

What's the point of this scam? I don't get it.

I'm with ndgoLiberty on Reddit:

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Probably hoping people put their funds in this wallet and then the creator wipes the funds.

But why? Like, anyone finding such a paper wallet would just sweep it. There's no point depositing first, before sweeping it.

On the contrary, that's something which absolutely works and is done in some cryptocurrencies that have a notion of 'gas'.
Example: Assume this is a USDT wallet, that holds $1,000 in Tether, but has no gas in it. The scammers wait for the victim to deposit like $1 USD in Ether to be able to move those $1,000 USDT, but the moment Ether are deposited, the scammers swoop it away.