10-13-2021, 02:06 PM
What if I found a big Bitcoin address?
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Let’s assume I randomly generate private keys and just happen to get the same key as some 1000 BTC whale and getting access to them (I know the odds). Then I transfer them to another address, and go to any exchange to cash out. What would happen? Would I get arrested for theft? Would the officials assume this is illegal money, as I cannot explain where I got them? What about taxes?</p> <p>Little mind game, what do you think? Of course it’s just hypothetical, as the chance of actually brute forcing such an address is like nonexistent</p> <p>Edit: Guys I know how statistically impossible it is, I even calculated it myself in the comments (and compared it to billion monkeys each with a billion typewriters). I was just wondering if it would be legal to „steal“ the coins. I could also just steal the private key backup in the physical world, and then steal the coins. Same thing</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Luizz__"> /u/Luizz__ </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q76sk4/what_if_i_found_a_big_bitcoin_address/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q76sk4/what_if_i_found_a_big_bitcoin_address/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Let’s assume I randomly generate private keys and just happen to get the same key as some 1000 BTC whale and getting access to them (I know the odds). Then I transfer them to another address, and go to any exchange to cash out. What would happen? Would I get arrested for theft? Would the officials assume this is illegal money, as I cannot explain where I got them? What about taxes?</p> <p>Little mind game, what do you think? Of course it’s just hypothetical, as the chance of actually brute forcing such an address is like nonexistent</p> <p>Edit: Guys I know how statistically impossible it is, I even calculated it myself in the comments (and compared it to billion monkeys each with a billion typewriters). I was just wondering if it would be legal to „steal“ the coins. I could also just steal the private key backup in the physical world, and then steal the coins. Same thing</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Luizz__"> /u/Luizz__ </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q76sk4/what_if_i_found_a_big_bitcoin_address/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/q76sk4/what_if_i_found_a_big_bitcoin_address/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R