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100 sats \ 8 replies \ @nullcount 15 May \ on: If someone sends you 10 BTC by mistake, what would you do? bitcoin
Finders keepers. Code is law. Honestly, the coins are in my possession now and I am the true owner according to the only rules that matter (consensus).
Those who have proven incapable of HODL are not entitled to a second chance. What if they burn it next time? Better to let them learn and re-earn the hard way.
I am not more likely to give someone a random payday just because I just had one myself.
Go plead to the FBI and use the violence of the state if you want to steal it from me using fiat laws and customs as justification for your theft.
Otherwise, I'll just assume I earned it as a tip for delivering a pizza in 2012 and the customer just got around to sending it.
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What if they burn it next time?
That might be the only reason I would keep *some" of it, but everything else you said was psychopathic and asinine.
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I accidentally turned my ASIC miner off for a few hours and missed a block. That miner stole it from me. If they were good natured and honest, they would send me that block reward for my mistake. /s
If we could rely on people being good-natured, we wouldn't need bitcoin.
Furthermore, what is to stop me from claiming every txn I made was a mistake? In fiat world, you can clawback almost any payment if you make a big fuss about it. There's an entire industry of scammers who exploit "good natured" people, because fiat allows them to get away with it.
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Hey, however you want to justify your disdain for the average human being...
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Its not distain for humans. Its ultimate respect for protocols.
If someone disrespect the protocol, they deserve what the protocol decides is their fate.