Quote from: Cantsay on Today at 02:45:56 AM

Quote from: btc123thatthere on January 05, 2023, 02:10:42 PM

What would you do if you managed to come across someone else's private key and it's worth an amount that most people would 'prefer not to lose', assuming you have no [idea who it belongs] to or [location clues]? Eg. Sweeping through common books' text for BIP39-based keys.

I suppose you could send a dollar's worth to a different address and hopefully they'd get the hint.

If you check almost all the replies you'll see everyone saying one of the following; that there'll find a way to return back to the own, that they will send the money to charitable donations, that they will look for ways to use the money to help others etcetera etcetera etcetera.
But the truth is that majority of those writing those stuff there don't really have those things in mind, but still wrote them so that others won't look at them as people that are greedy or so. I know that there are alot of users that are really going to abide by what they replied I'm this thread.

As for me I won't be certain if I'm going to return it. Me returning the key will be determined by some certain factors like;

where was the key found, the place where the wallet key was found is going to affect my decision if I'm going to return the key or not.
The amount that the wallet holds, if the money isn't that significant I definitely would return it. But if the funds is huge greed might come in play and it will become more difficult to return it back to the owner.
there other factors like ; if I'll have any guilty conscience when I refuse to return it, if the owner eventually starts looking for the wallet key

The list goes on... All these are things that are going to affect my decision on whether to return it or give it to charitable donations.
It's best to be true to oneself and receive advice that will help you change for a better person than to live in lies. This is me been true to myself.

It's all blatant lies, I'm sure everyone who claims to give back those bitcoins will never try to give them back but they'll find some way to quickly transfer those bitcoins to their wallet. We all crave bitcoins, we accumulate satoshi every single so no one will be kind enough to return bitcoins if found. Through OP's story, you can see a lot of shameless and self-righteous liars.