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Civic honesty around the globe

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209 points ojosilva | 4 comments | 20 Jun 19 19:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.734s | source
1. gjm11 ◴[21 Jun 19 00:14 UTC] No.20238754[source]▶
Pretty expensive study -- unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems like they gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars in these wallets.
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2. LeonidasXIV ◴[21 Jun 19 00:53 UTC] No.20238942[source]▶
Depends on the amount of wallets being returned.

Also, the wallets have a cost too, so it is not only the equivalent of $13 being lost in some cases.

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3. gjm11 ◴[21 Jun 19 01:21 UTC] No.20239069[source]▶
The replies they sent to emails said "it's OK; please keep or donate the money as you please".

They did in some cases (seven cities in the Czech Republic and Switzerland) then drop by in person to try to retrieve the wallets, but (unless I misunderstood) that's only about 1% of the wallets.

4. davetannenbaum ◴[21 Jun 19 07:22 UTC] No.20240602[source]▶
Cost was about US $600K in total.