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So basically I want newbies to learn from my poor mistake.

I made a mistake doing business with someone here, had given a wrong btc address. Why wrong? Naturally we all assume the btc address that someone provides is their wallet address and care to say wont do the search. Which this part is my mistake as well.

The actual transaction amount was 0.02164 - so this is another mistake for not double checking your "0"s.

Outside from the point the btc can sent back, if it was in their balance. So then I naturally assumed it was their btc address. The double screwed up part is when they provided a gambling btc address instead. Regardless if I sent the right amount, they would of never received it. They provided a wrong address.


Overall summary:
1. Always check the zeros in sending btc amounts (triple check)
2. Check the btc address prior sending any btc is not a gambling address


Edit - since I got a lot of response based on this - just to clarify it wasnt for nothing - I sold a spare btctalk account to "Candystripes (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=325115) ". He sent me the wrong amount and I said I would send it back. Then provided me with a btc gambling address, which I sent.

Editing - 9/15/14 - Finally got paid back, after endless hounding and building awareness of a educational post for newbies.

You can follow his mistake here by providing a gambling address.


The mistake I made myself was typing the wrong amount which should be in the message for 0.02164 and copy pasted that amount to the sent amount.

It seems like you need a pair of glasses  :D

But on a serious note, that really sucks. Its a common mistake on the sending amount, seems like you were busy w. something to double check I assume.

Hopefully you got enough btc to spare this loss.

Bummer man. Don't be too hard on yourself though. Sending to the wrong address, or moving the decimal and sending the wrong amount could happen to anyone.

That sucks, i feel sorry for you but it was just around 100$ and now you will hopefully atleast double-check everything.
I've seen people add 0.5 BTC fee for miners etc so you have ended up better way.

Could happen when writing and signing a check fast or doing a bill pay online also.

Proofreading errors and typos happen from time to time when human intervention is involved.  Not just in Bitcoin transactions.

Moral of the story, double check anything involving money, it's not just isolated to BTC.

Or copy and paste the required info, computer won't randomly change it.

always double check your sends, about the addy though??? seems like this mistake was his part not your job to double check his addy that was provided to you by him

I don't understand how you sent it to the "wrong" address? Addresses have a built in check, so if you change anything is almost certainly won't be valid.

I sent it to the address they provided, but it ended up being a gambling btc address.

Once I copied an address with a missing letter. Was a small headache cancel the transaction and have my bitcoins back.

@OP: did you sent to the wrong address(the other part sent one address, you sent the coins to other) or do you sent the coins to other people's addres, but then he claimed he was no control of the address?
Second option might be a plausible denial for a scam.

I'd say you got scammed.

I'm wondering how many bitcoins are lost for a typo error in the receiving address,
probably more than one thousand in my opinion.

all those zero, can cheats you i admit, you should try to display your balance with microbtc or others submultiple

I am a careless person, so I normally open a text editor and paste everything there, then double check info before I copy and paste from the text editor to the client.

Double clicking on that address should help avoiding this :)

I think you might have caught onto something.  If someone gives you a address you cannot check it really unless posted on forums or sig.  If they said to send to a address and you did it... it would be their fault.  If I am following right.

Oh man, that is a harsh thing to happen to anyone but I agree, it could have happened to anyone so I would not be too hard on yourself. I think it's great that you have posted here for other newbies and it's also something you can learn from yourself.

So if I understand this correctly...

Some complete stranger on the internet asked you to send them some bitcoin for no reason.

Then they gave you a bitcoin address to send the bitcoins to.

Then you sent 10X more bitcoins than they asked for to the address they gave you.

Then they told you that they accidentally gave you a gambling address and that the bitcoins are gone and you can't have them back.

Is that what you are saying?

If so, you've been scammed.

Someone decided they wanted to gamble, but they figured they'd see if they could trick you into paying for the gambling for them.

It sounds like they succeeded.

Did they tell you the wrong address? In that case it isn't your fault! They've screwed up big time by telling you a wrong address! This should be of your concern and the person should give you whatever has been promised in return!

OP, please communicate with us if the person did in fact give you the wrong address.  If they did then it is THEIR fault and you have most likely been scammed.  It may not get your money back but you can contact one of the mods to check the PMs and if necessary they can take measures to make sure others are less likely to be scammed by the same person.

for a while i thought that i didn't understan the OP reading responses.. But clearly your post reassure me.

It was a legit transaction, sold a spare account.  i returned the amount since it was wrong, then ended up sending more then it was provided w. a incorrect btc address.

Is that "gambling address" Candystripes' account deposit address on an off-chain gambling site?
 Or is it an on-chain gambling address?

always make sure you get scammed i guess?

scam urself?

This definitely the other parties fault. Do your best to attempt to get a refund.

It's very likely he conviently made up the lie "oh 0.2btc? lol it's not my wallet anymore, sorry your money's gone" to be able to keep the amount.

Always copy and paste. 0.2 might seem a lot to you right now but you can work that back in no time.  Be thankful it wasnt more ive lost way more and so have others.

Your point 2 of the Overall summary is baseless. There is nothing called gambling address in Bitcoin protocol. How the sender will know the address provided by the receiver is being used in what purpose ?

Overall summary: U sent 10x to some Candystripes and rather than returning U the extra, he told U that this is a gambling address and the amount is lost. Pure bullshit. U have been SCAMMED.

I still cannot do these calculations in my head, so I have to copy and paste the bitcoins into a converter, like preev.com to see how much it is.

 :( So I guess that is how I double check.

huh, how can you make such mistake. Missing one zero is big diffrent..

If you read the guy probably was busy doing something, just like everyone pointed out.

Its a common mistake.

If you read about people who do lot's of transactions it happens.  One was dogecoin i think car or bobsled one big player did a extra and since was for community went with it.

This whole things sounds weird. Either it was a terrible mistake or a scam. I can't determine which at this point with the information given. if I had to guess, I would say it was a scam...

The only mistake from what you mentioned was your incorrect typing of the amount. The fact that you sent it to a gambling address is irrelevant. Sending it to a gambling address means that the amount is now in a gambling account that the recipient has access to, which means that he/she still has access to your money. The address is just an address. And even if the recipient gave you a wrong address, then that has nothing to do you with you. You did your part. If the recipient is expected to return the excess amount to you and he/she is claiming that he/she does not have access to the money, then he/she is lying. Unless he/she asked a random person for a deposit address to a gambling site, which is too idiotic to be true, then he/she has access to that money and just wants to keep all of it.

are you saying it's a deposit address for a gambling site? in that case, it would be available in his gambling account. otherwise, did he "supposedly, accidentally," provide you with an address that was an input to his wallet from a gambling site? if the latter, you probably got scammed.

I am not quite positive on how to check for gambling addresses. I dont know what I would do in this scenario. Those decimals could be tricky. What I do is copy and paste to and from where I have the figures, depending what I am doing. I hate to try to type the numbers out because I am scared of over or under sending.

Send him a tiny amount of BTC just to test if he recieves it, because it was his fault the address was wrong.  ::)

I lost 0.2 thanks to MazaCoin, never again  ::)

it is better to check two  to three times before sending it to anyone else.

on chain gambling address.

Sorry about your loss, it is a good lesson to everyone to always double check address and sent amount.

Transaction fees deter people from doing test transactions.  :)

If by mistake someone typed 200.0 instead of 0.002,the receiver is gonna run away with your money ;D

I've learnt that the other way but yes, I'm always double checking the price, the adress... I lost about 1000 dogecoins because of sending them without checking.

I have lost some coins due to the same typo error, luckily it happened only a single time and I had the wallet almost empty.

In that case, shouldn't that site consider your transaction a bet and return you some bitcoin back to your address for your profit or loss?

what about copy & paste?
This would avoid errors in the amout.

Really sucks...

That depends on the receiver.

Not everyone in the world is an unethical thief and criminal.

Would you run away with the money?

the whole point is that he provided a fuken stupid gambling btc address. how was I supposed to know?

then say omg im sorry? wtf.

Well, that person would be me, I'm surprised cookie didn't PM me earlier about this thread. Doing my best to payback the money, I told him I would pay him back and I will (hopefully in the next 2 hours).

Can you give me a specific address you want me to send it to?

To clarify, I never gave him a gambling address. I had like 0.003 I was sending to satoshibones. As a habit I entered in 1 BTC (always do that to send my whole balance), boom I click confirm and it send .213, because blockchain didn't pick it up in time so I could see it. Loses at satoshibones (

I'm going to pay him back so no worries.

Yeah you can send btc here - 1CJKe4p3ckAuUMCZAwQr5gUDtPkL1HzwP4

But I doubt it.

Seeing your 1PenisUD72vZ8YEzUH6K5jrmaYr1w8qUKu transactions - you sent all your btc to lucky.bit trying to win btc. or forwarding to other btc address for your real balance.

https://blockchain.info/address/1PenisUD72vZ8YEzUH6K5jrmaYr1w8qUKu

I can also put out the endless conversations of weeks ago of broken promises.


You can check yourself you did provided in the conversation I posted.

Yeah that never happen its coming from one of my btc address, not yours. Nice try.

https://blockchain.info/tx/82347682803fa82962e985e96716d939fea8071a85287c9f70898302a5aff996

This is not even a gambling address. This is an address that is used to gamble his money. If you look at the transactions on the address, you will see that there are several transactions sent to various luckybit addresses, as well as payout transactions when he won/lost.

I hate to say this buy you have been scammed.

Additionally, I believe that candystripes is running a signature campaign on behalf of someone else. i would strongly recommend contacting the owner of the site and let them know about the situation....hopefully the site will at the very least no longer require the services of candystripes

No worries guys, I paid him back!

https://blockchain.info/tx/be5e42b95be63fabb5688da6cf34c85e74eb6e836ebe39c9f91eb95b1ab84e28

Sorry it took 11 days to payback :( but I did as I said.

You have a thread open requesting  a .1 loan. Is this related to that request?

Read the last post of it, I didn't get any loans.

wish BTC gets easy nick adresses. mine would be - forzen

Very noble of you Candy!

You told him it was a gambling address and when you were called out about it you magically had the money to repay him

Yes I see that, but was it your intention to use this money from the loan if you were to have gotten it to repay the OP?

Haha no the reason for the loan was in the thread, it was to try and win 2 BTC from Primedice.

I was just about to point this out lol.

Pretty funny, trying to switch the tables here. But I noticed he did finally seem to pay out, after the OP making more public awareness for newbies. Ironic isnt it?  :D

What I find even more interesting is the fact that the post above you talks about him wanting a loan, but a quick look at his address shows that he had over .5 BTC when he was looking for only .1 BTC to gamble at primedice

Well, you may try to create a vanity address starting with 1forzen yourself or use vanity pool to create a split key address if you want to.