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Title: payment sent to old address
Post by: opozito on March 01, 2017, 04:01:26 AM
Hello , I made payment to my old address by mistake ... What should I do now ?


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: achow101 on March 01, 2017, 04:12:54 AM
Unless the Bitcoin was sent to an online or exchange wallet (depends on the service whether they credit your account), then you still have the Bitcoin. Addresses do not expire and wallets will keep track of all addresses, they do not just delete an address after it has been used.


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: udevNull on March 01, 2017, 05:47:16 AM
Hello , I made payment to my old address by mistake ... What should I do now ?

Find the private key.


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: cparsley on March 01, 2017, 06:49:22 AM
If it's confirmed... the only way to do so is to figure out how to recover the address.... If it's not confirmed, you could try to doublespend it with a higher fee but that's about it.


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: Jannn on March 01, 2017, 07:10:51 AM
Hello , I made payment to my old address by mistake ... What should I do now ?
I think you dont have acces to your old address?But
If you have the wallet file of your btc address or a private key you can recover it.


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: BitGikI on March 01, 2017, 01:39:44 PM
Can you access to your old wallet?


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: ahmedjamal1998 on March 01, 2017, 01:50:04 PM
The only case you can get your coins back is that you have the private key to that address or it's an address of an exchange service.

If it's none, I guess you can't


Title: Re: payment sent to old address
Post by: opozito on March 02, 2017, 03:50:00 AM
thanks for the help guys.