I still remember my first crypto transaction. It was some LTC that I bought as my first crypto purchase and decided to sell a few days after I bought it, so I won't lose my money in this "life time opportunity" :D. What a moron... Bought them for $50 each and sold for $55 each, scoring a huge $5 per coin profit.
Two weeks after that, LTC went to $360 as an ATH... Hope to never repeat such mistakes. I was new to the crypto space and I still remember that I double checked the whole address letter by letter before sending them from my jaxx wallet to a Romanian exchange to trade them for cash.
I have ever since had that lottery thought of waking one day with some BTC sent to my wallet by mistake. It doesn't matter the amount, one, two or a thousand, this thought keeps on coming back to me. What if one day I see my wallet loaded with some BTC out of nowhere?
What would I do with one BTC sent by mistake to my wallet?
I honestly don't know for sure... The first thought would be to send it back, as it might be someone's coin that was supposed to hit an exchange or I don't know what wallet and instead it got to mine. I don't even know if this situation is even possible, but it crosses my mind once in a while.
I guess it's my lottery winning unfulfilled desire that gave birth to such thoughts. I would keep the damn BTC though if I knew it's sent by some money launderer, drug dealer and even by the police. I don't like neither of the above mentioned categories. But, how do you know to whom a Bitcoin address belongs?
If sent by an individual, who's got nothing to do with these types of folks, then I'd definitely send it back, but otherwise I'd probably keep it. I doubt that that will ever happen though and I also don't see how you can find what type of an individual has mistakenly sent me a BTC. I have an inquisitive mind though and often times I ask myself such type of questions.
What about you, what would you do in such a situation?
Thanks for attention,
Adrian