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chriswilmer

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Quote from: Shermo on September 07, 2012, 08:17:52 AM

I would've thought the polite thing to do was donate 0.5BTC as an actual donation for returning your 10BTC! I know that's what I would do if I had been so lucky!

Donation sent! Thanks again Gavin!

http://blockchain.info/tx/893f110eef8219014939cae9eb044058be6ff91fee3dd3dbec7c051efc5b736d

poohbah

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Quote from: darkip on September 07, 2012, 11:24:58 AM

Quote from: Shermo on September 07, 2012, 08:17:52 AM

I would've thought the polite thing to do was donate 0.5BTC as an actual donation for returning your 10BTC! I know that's what I would do if I had been so lucky!

This!

Agreed. Hell, I consider myself to be a good person, but if random coins showed up with no explanation, I'm not sure that I would send them back. You should send some type of reward for being so honest.

darkip

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Quote from: Shermo on September 07, 2012, 08:17:52 AM

I would've thought the polite thing to do was donate 0.5BTC as an actual donation for returning your 10BTC! I know that's what I would do if I had been so lucky!

This!

flynn

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This must be one of these Xmas fairy tales

Gabi

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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat

Quote from: chriswilmer on September 06, 2012, 05:55:51 PM

I can prove the address is mine by sending more BTC from that address, but still, obviously this requires the goodwill (and awareness) of the owner of the address: 15ArtCgi3wmpQAAfYx4riaFmo4prJA4VsK

You can prove you own an address by using the nice option of the Bitcoin client. "Receive money"->Sign a message. You can then write a message and sign it with that address. Then you post the whole message and the signature and everyone can check you own the address by checking the signature with the public address.

Endgame

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this is good to see

Shermo

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I would've thought the polite thing to do was donate 0.5BTC as an actual donation for returning your 10BTC! I know that's what I would do if I had been so lucky!

demzie

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Quote from: chriswilmer on September 06, 2012, 08:48:57 PM

*phew* The owner sent the bitcoins back to my address! The Bitcoin community is so awesome

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Nice

drcoinflip

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Quote from: chriswilmer on September 06, 2012, 05:41:04 PM

It has only 1 confirmation so far... not sure if that makes any difference!

Does not make any difference for you.
But glad you got your coins back !

JingleBalls

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Quote from: chriswilmer on September 06, 2012, 08:48:57 PM

*phew* The owner sent the bitcoins back to my address! The Bitcoin community is so awesome

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

+1 The community is awesome

Great outcome!

chriswilmer

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*phew* The owner sent the bitcoins back to my address! The Bitcoin community is so awesome

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

bbit

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Bitcoin

ouch!

Lethos

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Keep it Simple. Every Bit Matters.

Ouch, hope this teaches you a lesson.
When sending large amounts of money, pay attention to what your doing.

By all means, it be very nice of the owner of that address to refund you. But I got to admit that address is well use to donations.
Even 10Btc might go unnoticed.

gbl08ma

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Donations: http://tny.im/nx

He can always sign a message with the address to prove he owns it.

QuantumKiwi

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Bugger man, thats a lot of BTC.

chriswilmer

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I can prove the address is mine by sending more BTC from that address, but still, obviously this requires the goodwill (and awareness) of the owner of the address: 15ArtCgi3wmpQAAfYx4riaFmo4prJA4VsK

They may be lost for ever, but I just thought I would ask on the 1% chance someone had mercy on me.

Littleshop

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No, the payment is irreversible.

Showing the information you have shown does not prove you own the address as you could have just read that from the blockchain after a large payment went to the faucet. Now if a site owner decides to send back the money to you they can send it back to the original address that it came from and at least the money goes back to the person who sent it.

chriswilmer

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Ugh, I made my first careless Bitcoin transaction error!

I accidentally sent 10 BTC to Faucet's bitcoin address!!! I realize these are irreversible, but does anyone know the owner personally or how I could contact him and really really nicely ask for those bitcoins back?

The address I sent to by accident was: 15ArtCgi3wmpQAAfYx4riaFmo4prJA4VsK
From this address: 1QEgRqvF3sVqzpqb95B7TgZg8Km8grTeRk

And the transaction hash is: fb8c99ec703416e0d63cda45c63440901e768d6d9cefb8b7cb1c910259fd2bac

It has only 1 confirmation so far... not sure if that makes any difference!

-Chris

P.S. This is the "default" destination address in the Brainwallet.org !!!

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