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Have you ever accidentally send Bitcoin to the wrong person?  Or sent the wrong amount?

I did.  Like a fool.  Last night I was playing around with it and falling asleep at the same time.  

I tried to upload 17 bitcoins to Mt.Gox... but I went to my addressbook and saw one unlabeled address.  Thinking, oh that must be the new address just created, I'll use that one...  I sent it to that address.   Of course, instantly I remembered that it creates new addressed when RECEIVING money, not when sending it.  Duhhh.   I went back to Mt.Gox and it just has a box to enter the amount.  Only AFTER you submit that, then it tells you the address to send it to.  

Oh well.   One of my contacts received a surprise of 17 BTN last night.  Paying it forward.

What would I do if it had been 170,000 BTN....?       :)

I might not be so happy letting it go then....

PS - Is the proper abbreviation BTN or BTC or BCN?   I can never remember.

BTC.

BTC is commonly used. Well, your problem is misunderstanding of the concept of bitcoins. Strangely enough to create addresses to send money from. You already have money why should you create addresses to pay? Anyway, I believe it's just you who made such a mistake. Now I have bitcoin extension for chrome (oh, I'd send 50 BTC to the author, works like a charm) and just can't mess with addresses when sending some coins to anybody.

Clearly you need to make sure that you can't easily access your entire bitcoin savings at once. :-)

I do always have a feeling of responsibility or control or something when I'm sending. It's different than most things online which you can just undo or cancel or whatever. Bitcoin seems more real I guess.

Someone actually said they sent me a payment when they hadn't and it turned out they sent it to someone else. It was a bit more than 17BTC and luckly he knew who it was and was able to get it back from the person.

Is this something to worry about? You get a virus or bad program and whenever you copy a bitcoin addy it replaces the data in your clipboard with it's own address. I look at a few digits on big sends just in case, lol. Also protects against the copy not having worked and the previous addy still being on clipboard.

Sweet! 17 BTC. thanks Bruce. ;-)

Maybe we can just add a quick ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SEND MONEY HERE prompt before sending them.

This is just my experience, I've never experienced it, but I've seen on Blockchain transactions, that there is someone who does foolishness when it costs the delivery of Bitcoin, whether he's sleepy or drinking mostly alcohol, that he's wrong when setting costs, and he's setting shipping costs of 50 BTC, and he even sent Bitcoin a little bit like sending a shipping fee ..  ;D ;D ;D

What are the characteristics of bitcoin?
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Decentralization
The central control body of the bitcoin network does not exist: it is distributed to all participants, and every computer that produces bitcoins is an equal participant in this system. This means that no central body has the ability to dictate rules to the owners of the bitcoins, as, say, it was in early 2013 in Cyprus. And even if some part of the network goes offline, the payment system will continue to work stably.

I would be glad if you add my bitcoin address in your contact list.. Then if it is possible I’ll be rich in seconds..

My advice would be trying to reach out to the one owning that address as much as possible if that’s not necessary as you have so much in position then that’s better..

This happened to me that carelessly sent 1btc to my friend address that goes wrong,, I’ve contacted the person and willingly send back the same amount.. As a token of appreciation I’ve sent erc20 token as a reward..

I actually have had that experience of sending bitcoin to someone else, I felt bad because it was not retrievable,but I learnt my lessons to be careful..

I have an experience of it but in my in my scenario I send bitcoin in my friends account because I copy his btc address because I think thats his referral code, but in the end he return to me my bitcoin and we laugh together.

I am very aware of what I am doing, I am not saying that I am the perfect guy but its just that I always over think what I am doing the reason why I always take my time on transacting my Digital currencies especially Bitcoin. I don't have that much Bitcoin so I think if I will be sending it to the wrong person, I would probably have a breakdown.

Personally, I never send my BTC to a wrong person, whenever i do transaction i triply check the address.

We used to call it BTC as its abbreviation. Playing Bitcoin while sleepy will make you regret when you wake up bru. Why not play BTC? First it is money meaning have a amount of value, you will never mind it if you were millionaire already. Second it is not refundable, if you sent it on anonymous address it cannot be refunded or cannot bring back to you, you were lucky if you would get that again. Third wallet address is computer generated address it would be difficult to trace specially if you send it into no ones account.
As on my opinion on this topic Bitcoin transaction is like business transaction if you do it wrong you will lose what you have.

50 coins for transaction fees lol;  I'm curious about what that person feels right now, I also want to know about the fees, is miner who process the transaction will get it all? if yes then there is a lucky miner at that time

Uncertain. Bitcoin is of great value and sometimes you need to be cautious about the risks of counterfeit accounts or crypto market transactions. I was cautious and looked very carefully at the case of dealing with bitcoin or other crypto. Bar codes and wallet codes must be properly reviewed and copied.

Dude seriously this is really very foolish. I must be aware of the fact that once you send your bitcoins to someone by mistake then it’s like next to impossible to get them back unless that person wants to whom you sent bitcoin. Seriously I think it was your that to whom you sent bitcoin was in your contact list and now you can get them back but u should be very much cautious while transacting your bitcoins because it is very difficult to recover them and moreover you can’t do police complaint even.

That has never happened to me because i do check the address when am about to send in last stage...

Luckily I've never send it to a wrong person. I always check it many time before sending.
 ;D

Dude, did you notice that this post was done about 8 years ago? < November 13, 2010, 04:16:17 PM > and the OP was Last Active:  June 12, 2013, 05:03:24 PM? You are talking to someone that are not active on this forum anymore.  ::)

Someone pulled this thread out of the ashes and people do not care to investigate any further, they just post for the sake of posting. <Silly>

If you want to comment on old posts, then you should make it relevant to the current situation or how things have changed since. Someone please lock this thread, because this is going to become a spam fest.  ::)

I never done that before. Because i always double checked the address before i send the bitcoin. When you send it to a wrong person you will not recover it.

Thank God, that I don't have bitcoins) So I've never been wrong with transactions to the wrong people)

OMG!! that was the worst day in my life i sent a some much pretty money with a wrong click .. but the reciever was a good guy we talk on facebook ( i found him hardly) and he was clearly ready to sent them back so he did and i gave him a nice boon for what he done ^^

until now it has never happened to me, maybe it is your bad experience in investment, with bad experience is of course in the future you will be more vigilant and more thoroughly again in doing everything

That's a bunch of crap. How could you find that person by only using his tx id? Stop making lies. But this kind of mistake won't ever happen to me because I'm always keen when money is involved in it.

that was huge. and that was so bad even if you are  full time traders you also need to sleep dont push yourself with the unlimit. however you can contact support maybe they can do something.. you must have a backup address book in your computer so you dont need  to copy paste in the web. more safer but a little bit more effort but very effective

it's BTC. Wow you must be pretty rich for letting on that easily. I feel happy for whosever receive such s blessing without letting a sweat out! You should try to send free BTC for me too! I would gladly accepts!!😁

no. I use it with care

Is that even possible? i doubt it, i can maybe strike the wrong digit or an extra zero but entering the wrong address is a no no for me. I pray i  get to experience neither of them.

Thanks God it never happened to me as well, I am an old user of bitcoin so I never show carelessness about bitcoin sending and receiving, bitcoin is really an expensive currency so it is not good to show carelessness about it, if you will use it at right time and for right purpose then you will never face this situation.

luckily i havent.
That is the basic thing that you must check before sending any transactions! always double check the address of the receiver.
when you paste what you copied, make sure it is same with the address you copied. that is my tips, hope it helps.

Thanks God, no! I haven't had such experience and hope that I will never have it!) To my mind, this is not a good idea to send bitcoins to someone you don't know well as it is very risky. I prefer the trusted people

I never send bitcoin to the wrong person. but my account was ever hacked by nosy people. but it happened a long time ago.

Yes I once sent to the wrong address I almost died that day....lollll

I was almost about to send it to the wrong address/person. Since the amount was pretty large I had a mini-heart attack. What can I say? I lived to tell the tale.  Luckily I saw what I was about to do in the nick of time. Phewww!!

No I don't think I have
It's not going to be a very good event if I mistakenly send btc to a wrong wallet in this hard time. Not to even talk of btc alone, what of some valuable token really trading hard on some  exchanges, I  don't pray I mistakenly send them to a wrong wallet for whatever the case maybe.

This is the thing that i should be careful off. Well, i did not accidentally send Bitcoin to the wrong person. I am miticulous in terms of sending Bitcoin to others. As Bitcoin holder, we should put our Bitcoin in it best security and we should be careful at all times.

A wise man I hear learns from what experience people had either by being a withness to it occurrence or by reading about it. I have read and understood that once a coin is wrongly sent, it can't be recovered. So I try to be careful because it is really be a bad circumstance.


Don't even assume you can't make such mistake or be such a fool. Btc could be mistaken for bch or any of btc fork.