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I hope someone can help me with the following:

I wanted to buy bitcoincash with my bitcoins. For that I used the current bch send adress and coppied that in the send box in my jaxx bitcoin wallet. I did not recieve anything in my bch wallet and a friend just told me it went wrong because I used the bch send adress. Is there a way to get it back?

The send adress for bch still active in my jaxx wallet
 Blockchain info says transaction is recieved but I cant see anything in my bch wallet.

BTC and BCH are different networks/blockchains. If you sent BTC to a BCH address (or the other way around), it's lost forever.

(Unless the BCH address was created prior to the BTC->BTC/BCH split, and the recipient still controls the same address on both networks. But even then, you may have a hard time convincing them to return the payment.)

You DO now that Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash are two completely different currencies, right?
You can't send BTC to a BCH address and vice versa... you have exchange your BTC on a marketplace for BCH...

Now.. to get access to your wrongly sent BTC you can export the private keys of your recieving-BCH-address
and import it into another BTC wallet. You will be able to spend them from there on.
There are quite a few tutorials online to export your keys from JAXX and to import them keys into another wallet, just google it.


Nonsense.

Same private-/public- keypairs, same transaction history until block 4xx.xxx.
Of course you can recover wrongly sent BTC's, with easily importing the BCH private key into your BTC wallet...

Hi Bob123

Thank you so much for your help! I managed to get my coins back and learned my lesson.