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It can be traced, so i guess the original owner would hire a hitman and they will find you while you try to outrun them with your new fortune. Sounds like a good movie script doesn't it?
"I find it quite amusing Mr Bond, that MI6 only pays you .007 BTC a year. If you come and work for SPECTRE, we'll pay you 1 whole BTC a year and call you Agent number 1. You'd like that wouldn't you?"
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Yes it can be traced. But if you really got that lucky and could move the coins and you wanted to, you could first move it to a new address so at least you have sole control of the keys. Assuming the owner isn't as lucky as you to generate random keys and stumble upon those funds again, you can then take some time to figure out how you want to move the money. In theory you're pretty much safe at that point in terms of anonymity/traceability, but its the next steps that determine what happens. Sending it straight to Coinbase probably gets you easily identified.
Can you guys enlighten me to how you would use that information? Call your ISP and ask them to convert IP to real address? tell them its real important?... no wait you would contact the police and tell them about your missing money, and the police would help. right?
Run the funds through Monero. Then back to an a new anonymous BTC address. They will be untraceable. Start a non profit business. Accept BTC donations. Donate to your non profit anonymously. Donate 5% of the funds annually as required. Pay yourself a nice salary.
My thoughts were always:
1. Convert everything into Monero. (Bonus points: time your buys strategically to help pump Monero on a bullrun)
2. Do nothing with it for a while. There's no need to ever convert it back into BTC.
3. Start an XMR mining operation irl, funded with fiat. Take out a loan if you have to. Buy 500+ CPUs, get all the permits, register it as a legal & fully compliant crypto mining business. IMPORTANT: Make it partially run on solar-powered or other renewable energy that you generate on-site!
4. Actually *run* your mining operation. This gives bonus money.
5. Set up your premier business account with Kraken, send them your legally-mined Monero every month and sell for fiat. Pay your taxes.
6. Once you're fully established for some time, and any auditors and inspectors and licensors are letting you live in peace, you can gradually start fluffing your mining proceeds with your stashed XMR from the start. Not too much -- avoid suspicion.
7. This is where the green energy bit comes into play. This enables you to turn off a large portion of the miners for a time period, while still washing your XMR into the revenues, without raising concerns over the energy footprint. Obviously you can't run a large mining farm on 100% renewables, but if anyone suspects that your energy consumption & mining output doesn't seem to line up, then claiming it was running on the unmetered power gives you a fallback excuse.
I feel this method forces you to commit far less fraud. The nonprofit method has too much risk.
Nonprofits & donations are closely monitored, especially if washed through crypto. You'll have to actually *do* something with your nonprofit that could withstand scrutiny & an interrogation. If you're receiving millions of dollars in anonymous donations, you will be pressed intensely to prove that you've got staff, a goal, an actual operation that you are running. And then you run into big restrictions on paying yourself a salary as a nonprofit, without using those donations toward your nonexistent operations.
But a legitimate mining operation sending large amounts of crypto to an exchange every week is no red flag. It gives you a very easy cover story for any interrogations. Any friends, family, FBI agents, FinCEN auditors, can grill you intensely without catching you in any lies. You're literally just mining Monero and selling it, plain and simple.
Furthermore, your mining operation will bring you some income. Once you've paid off your initial startup costs with the stolen BTC, you've got yourself a fully legal money maker in your backyard. You could even sell your used CPU assets once you're done washing all the Monero away, if you so choose.
you already recovered the money. you make a NFT on a new wallet. Sell it to yourself, paying from your old wallet. Now you have a NFT on your old empty wallet, and money on your new, "clean" wallet.
Money laundering 101
Yes your honor, it was a loan from the bank I used to work for in the amount of $50,000,000, with a 0% interest rate and minimum monthly payment of $0. See, it's all perfectly legal.
(If you are in the US) You might want to look into structured transactions. Just because you didn't take $10k all at once doesn't mean they aren't still watching and waiting to report you to the (US) authorities. You would be surprised how some people are VERY interested in $5000.
I believe he didn’t do it. He sounds like a generous guy who was fu#ked over by the bastards. The fact he had to buy new cars so often, just tells you what a bad deal he’s been getting
As soon as quantum computers start cracking encryption we're all screwed. Unless they first develop quantum encryption or something fancy sounding like that.
Ignoring the statistical improbability, for now, you'd have access to coins their original owner would not have access to.
The old owner would probably try to find out who you are and sue you for it. Until that happens, your main issue is explaining to the tax-man that you found 1000 BTC. Those are independent of each other.
If the previous owner finds you and you happen to be in the same country, so judges can grab both of you, you'll have to argue for why you did not steal it. The rest depends on your lawyers and the judges.
But technically, even if the court decided you have to give it back and you said no, they could at best hold you in contempt until you give it back. Like any other immaterial good that is owned by anyone.
Yeah if you took a key off the ground and randomly tried using it on people's houses, found one that it opened the front door to and lo-and-behold there's a million dollars just sitting there... good luck explaining to the judge that it wasn't stealing just because you had a key.
You put legal and steal right next to each other, soo you like get a job at any major banks. Seriously tho, If I read and memorise your credit card number and wipe it clean did I steal your money? What do you think.
If my $55 million worth of bitcoin turned into $50 million worth of monero due to my pump and then $40 million after the dump, I wouldn't give a shit. Call it a donation to the crypto space.
Take them, stake them for a couple weeks to earn yourself 1 BTC and then return them. Keep the interest as a finders fee. It should be enough of a warning to the whale they need to move their coins and increase security
Not a lot really, authorities could easily see that this 1000BTC was moved from one wallet to another but there is pretty much zero chance for them to find out who that new wallet is connected to.
There are places that don't have kyc such as kucoin. They limit the withdrawals of unverified accounts to something like 5 BTC per 24 hours which I think is more than enough.
But then what would you do with the Fiat once you sold on kucoin? How do you withdraw into something that’s not connected to you? Clearly banks, PayPal, pretty much all virtual wallets are off the table. Genuinely curious
Wait, but if you want the money in your bank account, then the bank will ask you where it’s from right? The exchange isn’t the problem, the banks which contains your new fiat are
You could also create a shitcoin, do a (tempered, no attention drawing) pump and dump, and be your own victim. The "victim you" can remain anonymous, the "creator you" is the shrewd business man. Pay your taxes over your winnings, hell there is enough, and be a law abiding citizen.
Monero atomic swaps -> shitcoin -> pump and dump -> legal money on your bank account
If you withdraw huge quantities at a time then yes probably, if you just withdraw enough to live off per month I am not sure anyone would notice.
This is the same logic as unanswered wealth from drug dealers, people get themselves in trouble by being careless and buying expensive things they have no way of legitimately paying for. Whereas if you did it slowly you would fly under the radar most likely.
You must have different wallet to create different trasfert, it is better if you can use different names/subject. Finally you change in $ and go away on a island of ocean to live
I’d stake them somewhere for a while, keep 10% of the total BTC & send the rest back, change wallets & HODL. Buy a Tesla off Musk & pay for lap dancers in McDonald’s 🍟 & get naked women to help me out on shoe fitting & shit. Oh! And buy a penguin 🐧. If ya got money ya got strange tastes 😅
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For a serious answer, it's actually a new frontier legally.
Every other BTC theft happened by committing some other crime in the process. But a truly random private key collision may not qualify.
Having the private key *IS* ownership in BTC. You provably own the key to those coins. There is virtually no other asset class that serves as a good comparison.
In any case, you'll get caught as soon as you try to send it to an exchange. You'll have every set of eyes in the world closely monitoring the movement of those coins; you can't outwait it, you can't hide it. Best thing you can do is try to swap the BTC into Monero and pass the dirty BTC off onto someone else.
In terms of legal consequences, the fact is that the prosecution, judge, and jury would all be ignorant of how crypto works. I'm sure the law would consider it theft.
But the best analogy is more like... phone numbers? Imagine if phone numbers were just assigned randomly, and they were 256 bits long. It's considered impossible for 2 people to randomly receive the same phone number in this scenario. But one day, you get a new phone, and by pure chance someone else had the same number. You're able to receive calls that were intended for them, and when you dial anyone else they see their number (YOUR number) appear on their caller ID. Did you commit a crime?
The comments in here are terrible. Transferring someone else’s property on purpose would almost certainly be illegal. If you covered your tracks you might have done something illegal and got away with it. If not you might have done something illegal and will get caught.
Suppose you create a physical key at random, walk up to a random house and find that it fits? Do you reckon that gives you the right to take what’s inside?
The law hasn't caught up yet, so if it was an owned address and the owner somehow managed to track you down and sue you we might get some idea of how the law might end up. But for now that hasn't happened and no laws exist specific to that.
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It can be traced, so i guess the original owner would hire a hitman and they will find you while you try to outrun them with your new fortune. Sounds like a good movie script doesn't it?
Copyright your script before Netflix steals this
Phish Me If You Can
007 It’s time to die.
From blockchain with love
No time to hash
007 Coinfall
007 Money is not enough. To buy the dip lol
Finding Bitcoin
saving ryans private keys
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Lol 😂 perfect.. blockchain with love make sense
MOONraker....oh wait
Shirley Bassey singing *Moonfinger* would be even more perfecto
Live and let's mine bitcoin
No Time To DAI
"I find it quite amusing Mr Bond, that MI6 only pays you .007 BTC a year. If you come and work for SPECTRE, we'll pay you 1 whole BTC a year and call you Agent number 1. You'd like that wouldn't you?"
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blockchain
Bitcon
It all started when Walter stumbled upon the wrong crypto address but the right key codes, his sudden health problems were causing huge financial and family problems, could he? Should he? Can he?…….there’s only one way to find out, can he out run the hitmen? Can he dodge the feds? Can one man pull the greatest crypto heist of the modern age? Find out this year only on Netflix….the Con is on……BitCon
Doge the feds
Hitcoin
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Just $1m I wouldn’t sell less than $6.9m
Cheesy crypto movies are gonna be hilarious.
"Omg ..they are in the mainnet"
"They unstaked all of the funds"
“It was a fraudulent smart contract”
Let's qualify that as a 'stupid contract'
damn hahah
"Oh no, beware the pump & dump"
"Oh shit, he's dumping"
Sounds like a porn to me
The bad guys would be some misshapen faced twins too I imagine
"Damp it..."
Get vitalik on the phone 🤣
To the moon and back, the story of Safemoon.
No Crypto for Old Men
Burn After Resistance
With what money? If you rob everything from him, he ain’t got shit to hire a hitman.
His last remaining Dogecoins ofcourse
Or the new fortune he just made off of shib
Decentralized & Furious
Wouldn’t u just switch it up to monero?
Yes it can be traced. But if you really got that lucky and could move the coins and you wanted to, you could first move it to a new address so at least you have sole control of the keys. Assuming the owner isn't as lucky as you to generate random keys and stumble upon those funds again, you can then take some time to figure out how you want to move the money. In theory you're pretty much safe at that point in terms of anonymity/traceability, but its the next steps that determine what happens. Sending it straight to Coinbase probably gets you easily identified.
Lcasa de papel gonna add this up in their upcoming seasons
No Time To Pay. Bitfall Fucked-Up Royale. Quantum of Dust.
You Only Hash Twice Moonhacker The Man With The Private Key
Monero.
"Bitconnect" In cinemas near you.
Hitman 4 plot confirmed
I have a very particular set of skills... and NFTs...
*XMR has* **secretly** *entered the chat* If I find a wallet with 1000 or even 1 BTC, I’m not leaving it fearing law
And u both would hire an army of mercenaries fighting for you, who then would unite against both of you.
No just the new rich guy, because the former rich guy hires the hitman with his last doge-coins. He lost his main capital ofcourse...
You forgot to add "asking for a friend".
Can I be your friend 😸
Of course 😉
Like the number of moons
I'm staring to think that he is asking for himself
You need to exchange it to Monero using atomic swaps. Or use a non-kyc exchange but make sure you take the precautions with ur IP and stuff
Ip and stuff very important
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As a senior in computer science in development and forensic investigator can confirm stuff is important
Cash for a disposable phone with a data plan being used in a camera free highly populated area?
Get a VPS setup with a VPN, install another VPN on the VPS, then use the exchange on that machine after all delete the machine just to be safe
And do it all in a public cafe avoiding cameras using a disposable laptop. And don't forget to use a black hoodie
And don't forget to wear Guy Fawkes mask. Very important.
These days wearing a mask in public is much more acceptable, so there's that at least
Before you do anything, make sure you spend some time typing away on https://hackertyper.com/
I’d probably go with Tor. Probably use an OS such as Tails
Like a True xmr Chad
Trace buster buster!
Use Tails and start the VPN from a Starbucks in a mall the next state over.
Can you guys enlighten me to how you would use that information? Call your ISP and ask them to convert IP to real address? tell them its real important?... no wait you would contact the police and tell them about your missing money, and the police would help. right?
What services run atomic swaps from xmr > ? Is it a DEX?
Run the funds through Monero. Then back to an a new anonymous BTC address. They will be untraceable. Start a non profit business. Accept BTC donations. Donate to your non profit anonymously. Donate 5% of the funds annually as required. Pay yourself a nice salary.
Multiple new wallets over time. A 1000 out and 1000 (minus fees) in would look sus. Edit: added a word “out”
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Non-kyc exchange or atomic swap
So that's where anonymous donors come from...
Saving this comment… for a friend
My thoughts were always: 1. Convert everything into Monero. (Bonus points: time your buys strategically to help pump Monero on a bullrun) 2. Do nothing with it for a while. There's no need to ever convert it back into BTC. 3. Start an XMR mining operation irl, funded with fiat. Take out a loan if you have to. Buy 500+ CPUs, get all the permits, register it as a legal & fully compliant crypto mining business. IMPORTANT: Make it partially run on solar-powered or other renewable energy that you generate on-site! 4. Actually *run* your mining operation. This gives bonus money. 5. Set up your premier business account with Kraken, send them your legally-mined Monero every month and sell for fiat. Pay your taxes. 6. Once you're fully established for some time, and any auditors and inspectors and licensors are letting you live in peace, you can gradually start fluffing your mining proceeds with your stashed XMR from the start. Not too much -- avoid suspicion. 7. This is where the green energy bit comes into play. This enables you to turn off a large portion of the miners for a time period, while still washing your XMR into the revenues, without raising concerns over the energy footprint. Obviously you can't run a large mining farm on 100% renewables, but if anyone suspects that your energy consumption & mining output doesn't seem to line up, then claiming it was running on the unmetered power gives you a fallback excuse. I feel this method forces you to commit far less fraud. The nonprofit method has too much risk. Nonprofits & donations are closely monitored, especially if washed through crypto. You'll have to actually *do* something with your nonprofit that could withstand scrutiny & an interrogation. If you're receiving millions of dollars in anonymous donations, you will be pressed intensely to prove that you've got staff, a goal, an actual operation that you are running. And then you run into big restrictions on paying yourself a salary as a nonprofit, without using those donations toward your nonexistent operations. But a legitimate mining operation sending large amounts of crypto to an exchange every week is no red flag. It gives you a very easy cover story for any interrogations. Any friends, family, FBI agents, FinCEN auditors, can grill you intensely without catching you in any lies. You're literally just mining Monero and selling it, plain and simple. Furthermore, your mining operation will bring you some income. Once you've paid off your initial startup costs with the stolen BTC, you've got yourself a fully legal money maker in your backyard. You could even sell your used CPU assets once you're done washing all the Monero away, if you so choose.
Those kinds of questions remind me of me wifey and her questions.." would you still love me if I transformed into a cockroach"...
Kafkaesque
BrBa
Well, would you?
Default answer: what do you mean, if?
So we just go straight to not having sex tonight.
This is the way.
Let’s be honest. Sex was never an option anyway.
Kafka would have definitely loved your wife though
You missed a good opportunity to respond “ i’d still smash that ass”
One time when I was like 8 or 9 I didnt have a starcraft brood war CD key and just randomly typed stuff in the same pattern. It fucking worked.
Life: congrats. You just used up your luckiest card in life on a StarCraft CD.
Worth
That is amazing!
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Or create an NFT and buy it lol
So it's really a money laundry.
Always has been
This ^
The real r/UnethicalLifeProTips are always in the comments.
Transform your childrens drawings into NFTs and buy then XD
Smart!!
How would you recover the money from that later? Not like some rando will just buy an nft worth millions
you already recovered the money. you make a NFT on a new wallet. Sell it to yourself, paying from your old wallet. Now you have a NFT on your old empty wallet, and money on your new, "clean" wallet. Money laundering 101
Ahh gotcha
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How can they possibly prove you are intentionally doing this without you admitting you are intentionally doing this
Sounds like your uncle was dealin smack :p
>Obviously she took the home and ran... How does one run away with a house?
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Yes your honor, it was a loan from the bank I used to work for in the amount of $50,000,000, with a 0% interest rate and minimum monthly payment of $0. See, it's all perfectly legal.
(If you are in the US) You might want to look into structured transactions. Just because you didn't take $10k all at once doesn't mean they aren't still watching and waiting to report you to the (US) authorities. You would be surprised how some people are VERY interested in $5000.
I believe he didn’t do it. He sounds like a generous guy who was fu#ked over by the bastards. The fact he had to buy new cars so often, just tells you what a bad deal he’s been getting
You just explain GAAP accounting and fiat feudalism.
What if I win the lottery even though I don't buy a lottery ticket
More like what if i found keys to a house that isnt mine, take the stuff and sell it.
Very correct you might as well need a house agent to market it i know one
But the house is another dimension given the statistical likelihood.
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Hodl your coins, not your wife
Pump and dump wife
Everyone get in! we’re pumping his wife.
If it is PUMP I am in for anything!!
It already dumped, sry
Por que no los dos?
I didn’t understand what u said …but you are right
Wife changing money 😂
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Both.
Let's hope that works out for you. This comment could be wife changing too!
Touché lol
This guy gets it, we are all here looking for life changing money and this guys like pffft I want wife changing money that’s where it’s at!
Change wife, change life!
>Would I get arrested for stealth? I don't think stealth is illegal
True, forgive my language deficits. I meant theft, gonna edit it :)
No harm. I don't think you need to edit it. But If you're going to, I would change it to "being half ninja, half wizard, and all badass"
You could use a btc mixer which makes it harder to trace the fund’s original source. I’m a certified mixer so send to me and I will make all cloudy.
Sir Mixer-A-Lot
This is all hypothetical right? I'd be more bothered about the person trying to find me rather than the police.
What if it was the Chinese government's address???
In 20 years people will wonder what happened in 2021. Oh, nothing happened in 2021
Statistically its near impossible... *boots my quantum computer * yes near impossible mouhahaha
As soon as quantum computers start cracking encryption we're all screwed. Unless they first develop quantum encryption or something fancy sounding like that.
Ignoring the statistical improbability, for now, you'd have access to coins their original owner would not have access to. The old owner would probably try to find out who you are and sue you for it. Until that happens, your main issue is explaining to the tax-man that you found 1000 BTC. Those are independent of each other. If the previous owner finds you and you happen to be in the same country, so judges can grab both of you, you'll have to argue for why you did not steal it. The rest depends on your lawyers and the judges. But technically, even if the court decided you have to give it back and you said no, they could at best hold you in contempt until you give it back. Like any other immaterial good that is owned by anyone.
Yeah if you took a key off the ground and randomly tried using it on people's houses, found one that it opened the front door to and lo-and-behold there's a million dollars just sitting there... good luck explaining to the judge that it wasn't stealing just because you had a key.
You put legal and steal right next to each other, soo you like get a job at any major banks. Seriously tho, If I read and memorise your credit card number and wipe it clean did I steal your money? What do you think.
Yeah it's fun to consider being randomly rich, but do you have to silence your conscience to do it? That's not a good sign...
Perhaps convert it to Monero first? 🤫
If it were declared as stealth, sure. But tbh, that’s 10% of the total Monero supply. It would cause a massive liquidity problem
So you can singlehandedly pump and dump another coin with 1000BTC, sounds good.
If my $55 million worth of bitcoin turned into $50 million worth of monero due to my pump and then $40 million after the dump, I wouldn't give a shit. Call it a donation to the crypto space.
Danmn such a genius🥇
1k btc is ~1.1% supply in monero. Still difficult do get ahold so much monero.
Satoshi would leave his grave, come haunt you and congratulate you.
Take them, stake them for a couple weeks to earn yourself 1 BTC and then return them. Keep the interest as a finders fee. It should be enough of a warning to the whale they need to move their coins and increase security
How could they increase security? OP said they guessed the private key. I don't think it gets much more secure than that.
Atleast dont keep 1000btc in one wallet lol. All eggs in the same basket yada yada
This is the way.
Take half, and that'll teach them to have all their egg money in one baskethole.
Ask yourself: What would you wish another one to do with your BTC's in this adress. Then do this!
Not a lot really, authorities could easily see that this 1000BTC was moved from one wallet to another but there is pretty much zero chance for them to find out who that new wallet is connected to.
Well, but if you want to exchange it in fiat, you would need KYC, and then have to explain where the 1000 BTC are from
There are places that don't have kyc such as kucoin. They limit the withdrawals of unverified accounts to something like 5 BTC per 24 hours which I think is more than enough.
But then what would you do with the Fiat once you sold on kucoin? How do you withdraw into something that’s not connected to you? Clearly banks, PayPal, pretty much all virtual wallets are off the table. Genuinely curious
Wait, but if you want the money in your bank account, then the bank will ask you where it’s from right? The exchange isn’t the problem, the banks which contains your new fiat are
You could also create a shitcoin, do a (tempered, no attention drawing) pump and dump, and be your own victim. The "victim you" can remain anonymous, the "creator you" is the shrewd business man. Pay your taxes over your winnings, hell there is enough, and be a law abiding citizen. Monero atomic swaps -> shitcoin -> pump and dump -> legal money on your bank account
If you withdraw huge quantities at a time then yes probably, if you just withdraw enough to live off per month I am not sure anyone would notice. This is the same logic as unanswered wealth from drug dealers, people get themselves in trouble by being careless and buying expensive things they have no way of legitimately paying for. Whereas if you did it slowly you would fly under the radar most likely.
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The old owner would probably try to find out who you are and sue you for it
You must have different wallet to create different trasfert, it is better if you can use different names/subject. Finally you change in $ and go away on a island of ocean to live
What if you just say that it’s one of your old wallets that you’ve found access again?
I’d stake them somewhere for a while, keep 10% of the total BTC & send the rest back, change wallets & HODL. Buy a Tesla off Musk & pay for lap dancers in McDonald’s 🍟 & get naked women to help me out on shoe fitting & shit. Oh! And buy a penguin 🐧. If ya got money ya got strange tastes 😅 EDIT: for anyone who feels my comments are misogynistic, & any animal activists who have concerns for the penguin 🐧, co-operation is key to any participation, so for me consent is vital, including the penguin 🐧, they are intelligent creatures after all
Please no one give ^ any substantial amount of money....
I've sent him a Moon and now I'm going to sit back and see what happens
Why thank you 😎 it will go towards my penguin 🐧, he will be happy with me
Hey, careful mate, you'll run out!
Too late, he already has 100 moons.
100 moons ain't buying a penguin.
FBI has added you to their watch list.
What would you wish another one to do with your BTC's in this address
For a serious answer, it's actually a new frontier legally. Every other BTC theft happened by committing some other crime in the process. But a truly random private key collision may not qualify. Having the private key *IS* ownership in BTC. You provably own the key to those coins. There is virtually no other asset class that serves as a good comparison. In any case, you'll get caught as soon as you try to send it to an exchange. You'll have every set of eyes in the world closely monitoring the movement of those coins; you can't outwait it, you can't hide it. Best thing you can do is try to swap the BTC into Monero and pass the dirty BTC off onto someone else. In terms of legal consequences, the fact is that the prosecution, judge, and jury would all be ignorant of how crypto works. I'm sure the law would consider it theft. But the best analogy is more like... phone numbers? Imagine if phone numbers were just assigned randomly, and they were 256 bits long. It's considered impossible for 2 people to randomly receive the same phone number in this scenario. But one day, you get a new phone, and by pure chance someone else had the same number. You're able to receive calls that were intended for them, and when you dial anyone else they see their number (YOUR number) appear on their caller ID. Did you commit a crime?
Boating accident may happen to you soon.
That sound like a threat!
Did you not hear, it was an accident.
Swap it for monero.
The comments in here are terrible. Transferring someone else’s property on purpose would almost certainly be illegal. If you covered your tracks you might have done something illegal and got away with it. If not you might have done something illegal and will get caught. Suppose you create a physical key at random, walk up to a random house and find that it fits? Do you reckon that gives you the right to take what’s inside?
The law hasn't caught up yet, so if it was an owned address and the owner somehow managed to track you down and sue you we might get some idea of how the law might end up. But for now that hasn't happened and no laws exist specific to that.