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Last night I accidentally grabbed a sent to address instead of my address from my bitcoin wallet and I sent 20BTC to this address from my bitcoin-exchange account.

1QEyVFiPAaSqtCgjaEmATJKeXjFr1oSBuj

The bitcoins are just sitting there.  I had sent 10.17 BTC to this address back on 5/28/2012 but I have no idea what this address is.

Can anyone help me find out where I sent these coins?

2 BTC bounty to anyone that can help me recover these coins.

First of all, be careful, always double check the address before sending. It's saved me a few times. But gentle scolding asides, I'm doing some digging on the coins' final resting place. I will update this with more info eventually. A heads up, you are highly unlikely to find any way to get these coins back, but I'll give it the old college try nonetheless.

The coins are proving difficult to track from your last transaction. They get bundled in with a bunch of other inputs until you're dealing with hundreds of coins at once.

With my luck I sent them to Bitcoinica.

If it helps you remember at all, the original transaction was for about $52.17 USD at the time.

I hate to admit it, but I don't think you're gonna get them back. Unless some random person happens to stumble here that happens to own the address with your 20 coins in it, they're probably gone for good. The news doesn't get any better if the address was swept. Typically private keys are deleted after a sweep, since there's not much point to keeping a zero balance address. Sorry bud. I'll see if I can find any news that'll change this, but I hate to say, don't get your hopes up.

Based on this transaction:
http://blockchain.info/tx/6aac96271f6b9b882580e2b80184482d47b87ad69c779b909b5180effd5fae8f

It seems like 1QEyVFiPAaSqtCgjaEmATJKeXjFr1oSBuj and 1NpwQtw1AbhzcE7PRhhEDEyaZFoQJSgncH are owned by the same entity (since inputs associated with both addresses were used in the same transaction).


Based on this transaction:
http://blockchain.info/tx/cc2c503870e8b02321b4c33bc739880d14bd744d44fa1fd52f875dca9123c0be

It seems like the entity that owns 1NpwQtw1AbhzcE7PRhhEDEyaZFoQJSgncH sent 10,000 coins to 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM on 2012-04-17.


And based on this conversation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94675.0

There seems to be some belief that 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM is an address owned by Pirate40.


Is there any chance you "invested" with a "Pirate Pass Through" in the past?  Could 1QEyVFiPAaSqtCgjaEmATJKeXjFr1oSBuj be the address of that "Pirate Pass through"?

I never invested with pirate or sent any BTC to him.  Could that be a SR account?

I don't know.  Whoever it is that you accidentally sent your bitcoins to, it was someone who had previously this year sent 10,000 to 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM.  That isn't exactly a small amount of bitcoins.  It could be SR, it could be a lot of things, but it is someone who has (or at least had back in April) access to over 10,000 BTC and sent 10,000 BTC to 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM

I'm just going to cross my fingers and hope that someone sends it back to you. Since it seems to be off in ??? land

They can't send it back to me though.  I send it to what I thought was myself from my bitcoin-central account.

So you can't receive to the same address you sent from? That makes it even more tricky to get it back. Hopefully it finds it way back to your wallet.

If they send it back to where it came from it will go to bitcoin-central's hot wallet.

Damn. You know what might be good to do? Send a small transaction to there with a public note attached to the blockchain, with an address to send it back to. If you want to PM me an address you can receive at, I'll send it for you. You can verify that it's done in the blockchain.

The 1QEyVFiPAaSqtCgjaEmATJKeXjFr1oSBuj address also seems to be owned by the same entity that owns 1DuneTsrCnapAKWpZCttRnLTH59PMD1pzf

That looks a bit like a vanity address, doesn't it?

Maybe someone who knows who owns 1DuneTsrCnapAKWpZCttRnLTH59PMD1pzf will stumble into this thread and be able to help you?

Thanks Caffeinewriter!

I got the coins back!  They went to an old SR account that I made about a year ago.  They credited them to my new account.  I sent the bounty of 2BTC to you.

TXID  3ec40e48e099354df119774baad17704ff15efdbbc54c05310e5d8dd6d40298a

Of people reporting having made this mistake (accidentally sending to the wrong address), every one that I know of has ended up recovering the funds (less bounty / etc.).    Contrast that to how nearly no thief has been tracked down through info obtained through the blockchain.

Got it :) Glad I was able to help!