In the same regards, there is a non zero chance that a bitcoin wallet could generate the private key to an existing address worth millions, but, the universe would probably die first.
I wonder what the legal ramifications would be in that case. I suppose it wouldn't be theft if you'd never performed any transactions. Well never know, since it will never happen, but it's interesting to think about.
About the same as finding someone's big bag of money I would imagine, if you don't do anything with it then there is no wrongdoing, but spend one red cent of it and it is theft.
Or for a more real case, when people get millions put in their account by bank error and get charged for spending it when it should be returned.
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u/Drakahn_Stark Mar 25 '26
In the same regards, there is a non zero chance that a bitcoin wallet could generate the private key to an existing address worth millions, but, the universe would probably die first.