If someone mistakenly sent you 1 ETH, what would you do? - page 8.

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Quote from: SyndicateLabs on August 15, 2020, 07:18:32 AM

A lot of people say they'll give it back to the original owner, but I wonder who would do it if it did. Most of the people here are bounty hunter and if there's a free amount like that, I believe they'll quickly sell it. Grin

I never sell the coins which I earn in bounty campaigns. I always leave them in my wallet, I leave them until the moment when they grow by a large number of percent

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It's free money, I would invest it to some low marketcap coin and hodl. 1 Eth is not that big but it can gain value, I might also hold just ethereum itself hoping it could rise same as its ATH before withdrawing it and buy a new gaming rig.

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Quote from: Abiky on August 14, 2020, 09:01:59 PM

Ethereum is becoming extremely popular nowadays with the rise of "De-Fi" apps and stablecoins. Most people are just into it in order to make a lot of money in the shortest time possible. Since they're newcomers into crypto, they can easily make mistakes when sending coins from one address to another. Now, imagine if you check your wallet and it has 1 ETH sent to you by a mysterious address. At current rates, that would be an average of $400 (USD) in your pocket.

What will you do if someone accidentally or mistakenly sent you 1 ETH? Will you donate it to a charity? Will you send it back to its original owner? If it were me, I'd return it back to its original owner as long as he/she is able to provide a signed message with the address' private key proving the coin's ownership. But since crypto is widely unregulated, anyone can do as they please.

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its actually hard to decided depend on your needs, its almost impossible to happen that someone will accidentally send any amount to unknown address . Once you receive it even how much it is you can considered it as donation if you are affraid for the owner maybe he need it more than you ,you can check the address that send it to you if its really a big lost to him that he send his ETH. By checking it you will have idea how much left the wallet address have.

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I have read some comments above and I will say it's easier said than done as Ethereum has become the new hot cake of DEFI. I will do the same but wouldn't send exactly 1 ETH as you all aware that transaction fee is insane right now. I will use some as Gas fee and return the rest.
Crypto is tempting though especially when you receive high valued coin Kiss

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Well if he/she mistaken sending 1ETH maybe I should use it for gas or for trading also.
Because we all know they cannot get it back 1ETH mistaken, So I must use if and earn more profit in crypto.
And actually it was not my fault for being make a mistake it is fault to those person has not careful of his ETH.

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To be honest i probably would just keep it, except i know that this happened as a mistake and that guy would ask for help in a forum or something and i would see that i was the guy that he sended the ETH to.
Then i would send him the ETH back, because 1 ETH doesn't make me rich and i don't want to ruin someone elses experience. If that person can prove that he was the one who sent it though.

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When I checked my wallet it turned out that 1 ETH had entered, my first step would be to wait for several days if there were people
who contacted me and admitted to sending wrong address. Of course, on the condition that he must be able to prove the wallet
address is indeed his. If no one confesses, I count it as mine. And about 10% of it I will give for charity.

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A lot of people say they'll give it back to the original owner, but I wonder who would do it if it did. Most of the people here are bounty hunter and if there's a free amount like that, I believe they'll quickly sell it. Grin

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Quote from: Abiky on August 14, 2020, 09:01:59 PM

Ethereum is becoming extremely popular nowadays with the rise of "De-Fi" apps and stablecoins. Most people are just into it in order to make a lot of money in the shortest time possible. Since they're newcomers into crypto, they can easily make mistakes when sending coins from one address to another. Now, imagine if you check your wallet and it has 1 ETH sent to you by a mysterious address. At current rates, that would be an average of $400 (USD) in your pocket.

What will you do if someone accidentally or mistakenly sent you 1 ETH? Will you donate it to a charity? Will you send it back to its original owner? If it were me, I'd return it back to its original owner as long as he/she is able to provide a signed message with the address' private key proving the coin's ownership. But since crypto is widely unregulated, anyone can do as they please.

Thoughts? Huh

I think the mistakes that people make in sending ETH to our wallet are very difficult to happen, because they will definitely copy and paste the wallet they are going to send, but if it happens to me (someone wrongly sent ETH to my wallet) then I will return it, because I don't want to see that person lose his money just because he wrongly sent ETH to my wallet.

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Quote from: NoG-NoG link=topic=5268949.msg5499javascript:void(0);8608#msg54998608 date=1597471523

If ever that there is someone mistakenly sent 1 ETH to me, I would gladly hold it and wait for the right time to have another bull run and then I would sell it in a higher price so it would more profitable and I will always look to that person as a blessing in disguise to me.

haha , why you dont sent back its ethereum to original owner. isn't it this is not yours and if we be honest man we must back sent it back. i know he will not know who is the receiver this ethereum. but imagine if this accident happen to you meanwhile you have many daily needs to fullfilled and we have no money at all.

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Quote from: NoG-NoG on August 15, 2020, 01:05:23 AM

If ever that there is someone mistakenly sent 1 ETH to me, I would gladly hold it and wait for the right time to have another bull run and then I would sell it in a higher price so it would more profitable and I will always look to that person as a blessing in disguise to me.

It will be consider as stealing not returning it? I know thay money is one of the reason we need now to survive. Not because of its physical appearance but also to what could it do or buy. If it happens that someone mistakenly sent you an eth worth some dollars the best thing to do is sent it back to the original owner to which public address is visible on blockchain. Who knows that the money you sent back will be used for medical expenses especially now that we are in pandemic and we could deny the fact that most of us need money for emergency purposes or whatsoever for survival.

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Never have this situation, if someone mistakenly sent you ETH you can send them back if you want. Or you can take it too because it's a gift, you don't have to worry about it

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I will probably wait within 1 day 24 hours, whether anyone feels lost or not by including proof of his wallet address. just match the return address to our wallet, if correct then return it. but if not and within 1 day 24 hours no one will contact, I will definitely sell.

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Honestly if someone mistakenly send me ETH, I will contact some people i think might be from them, without mentioning the amount and requesting for etherscan url as proof. If no one owns up, I'll definitely keep the ETH. Most people will count it as luck 🤞, to be candid.

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if this stranger sends at the address displayed on my bitcointalk profile, of course I will return his eth, because it is certain that the owner can track all social media accounts there if he tracks my address on search engine, but if the stranger not looking for me and not asking for his eth back, maybe some will I donate to charity program on bitcointalk and some I will use.

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Quote from: samuraijin on August 15, 2020, 01:29:12 AM

I will return it if he asks for his money back, of course if something goes wrong like that usually comes from a beginner, so I will understand the mistake he made, I will return it to his wallet address

It's the right thing to do, but if you are in this situation for sure you will think twice or find other reasons why you receive this amount.
with how valuable ETH now, it's nature to us thinking that it's a blessing, not sure if everyone will agree but this huge amount of assets
being delivered to your wallet. Not sure if you will not think about taking it.

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I've never heard or seen someone who received crytocurrency by mistake. Most times we copy and paste wallet address and the possibility of errors is slim.
If I eventually receive ethereum I didn't expect, I'll hold it for a while and go through my social media handles to see if I was lucky or won from the games played previously without a record. If I'm convinced that I wasn't paid, then I'll make attempt to refund back to the sender.

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Quote from: Abiky on August 14, 2020, 09:01:59 PM

...If it were me, I'd return it back to its original owner as long as he/she is able to provide a signed message with the address' private key proving the coin's ownership.

Wait, how would you even track the sender down? It's not like the sender can contact you when he doesn't know who you are. Personally i would consider it as a free airdrop That i've got from some free lottery i have most likely participated in the past. Unless the owner somehow could track me down and asked it back i would keep it.

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Quote from: minairia3 on August 15, 2020, 05:30:44 AM

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I personally doubt if there are still people who return high value ETH when they get it for free, maybe only a human with a noble heart can do it. This world is full of dude greed.

Some comments say they will but I doubt it. Anything that comes free wil be taken already. To be honest Im not so sure if I will get it as my own or return it. No ned for details on how to return it, cause you can just simply send it back to the wallet it came from.

Im guessing that out of 10 maybe 1 or 2 will have noble heart to return it. For this mistake this is a big sin to send on a different wallet like come one, copy paste is not hard and why would you messed up. I know newbies are understandable but this is way to easy task. To make error here means that someone is not careful enough.

I will return it if the owner tries to reach me out. Because who knows for what reason would that 1 ETH came into your wallet? I participate in giveaways and whenever I get one, I'd assume that is my prize. I will also check where the transaction came from and analyse the remaining balance. If the owner looks rich I would not return it, honestly. Roll Eyes

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I personally doubt if there are still people who return high value ETH when they get it for free, maybe only a human with a noble heart can do it. This world is full of dude greed.

Some comments say they will but I doubt it. Anything that comes free wil be taken already. To be honest Im not so sure if I will get it as my own or return it. No ned for details on how to return it, cause you can just simply send it back to the wallet it came from.

Im guessing that out of 10 maybe 1 or 2 will have noble heart to return it. For this mistake this is a big sin to send on a different wallet like come one, copy paste is not hard and why would you messed up. I know newbies are understandable but this is way to easy task. To make error here means that someone is not careful enough.

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