What is the punishment for those that steal bitcoin? Who can punish this kind of thieves? It seems to me that if nobody ever knows there is nothing illegal.

An example is the HashOcean that stolen money from thousands of people with that fraudulent scheme and nothing happened to them. It's hard to get the thiefs and scammers on the internet because they know how to hidden themselves and we don't have many guarantees here of safe when online, that is one of the very few negative points with Bitcoin and another virtual coins.

Yes but what more important is it is all about business matter. Stealing in the sense of making wise by someone like winning in the gambling, profiting in investing and trading off good in trading makes good way of stealing. But when you say hacking or fooling someone it is not acceptable it is bad stealing. Therefore there is two way of stealing.

The answer is so obvious here. Of course it is illegal. It is stealing, if this happen to you then you will see it at my own perspective. There is no legal stealing. Even Robin Hood is wrong in what he did.

no, if you get bitcoin in that sense then it's ok to take those bitcoin. because it's not your mistake to get those bitcoin. you got by luck and obviously you can take it. i think your title is not correct. because it's not stealing but it getting bitcoin by luck.

In your situation it's not illegal to get bitcoin in randomly generated bitcoin address. But generating an existing address and getting bitcoin from the old address is illegal cause the address already have owner and v you have no right to take others bitcoin.

If seomeone stole your bitcoins, would you be mad? If you thought this question before you created this thread you would have found the answer by yourself.

I never exactly understood how people justify stealing. Its really sad, its become part of American culture from politics to your everyday craigslist scammer. Its ridiculous.

yeah you are right that its illegal to steal bitcoin from other and i think everything stealing is illegal and bitcoin is a type of currency so we can can not steal it from other person and they can be punished if someone steal it from other.