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HI,

I am very new to Bitcoin. I have an account with Coinbase. While on line I tried to make a purchase, I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit. The Bitcoin went through the address and has bounced around, a total of 1106  confirmations to be exact.. When I track it, it says spent at the last address. I came across the vendor on another site, I spoke with him and he said it wasn't his address. But he would work with me.

Is it possible to get my Bitcoin back? I would be happy to pay a bounty in Bitcoin if I can get it back.

Thanks!

no, unfortunately for you bitcoin transactions are not reversible if they are confirmed and your transaction (based on what you said) is already confirmed.

your only possible option is to figure out where you got that address which you sent to. if you can find out the owner then you may ask him to send it back. otherwise if you copied a wrong address or for example if you have a clipboard-hijacker malware on your computer which changes copied bitcoin addresses, then you are out of luck.

As pooya says above, you can't get the coins back if they're confirmed - that's part of the Bitcoin appeal, irreversible transactions. There's another possibility here: the vendor could be trying his luck. If you got the address from the vendor's site/page (you should prove where you got it, a screenshot perhaps?) and if your device isn't compromised (you scan and find nothing), you could also try look up the address, perhaps the vendor is already linked to it or linked to any of the addresses that the "spent" coins went to.

A bit tricky to do business with Bitcoin for newcomers but you probably know by now to confirm ownership of the address if doing direct txs with vendors. Which site did you do this on?

Always and always double check what you are doing and to whom are you sending your money. The whole idea behind bitcoin is that there is no middleman who can do charge backs or anything, you are responsible for your funds and thus you should act accordingly. Maybe you had some malware that switched the address which you have copied I know those exist as well.

This happened with me during my initial days dealing with bitcoin and ethereum ... unfortunately you cant get them back

If you are 100% the deposit address is correct, then the vendor is trying to scam you.

Well this is for sure no way to reverse a bitcoin transaction. There are two possibilities  1. seller is trying to scam you 2. You sent your bitcoins to wrong address

If its first scenario then try to get some info from seller like
1. Confirm with seller correct bitcoin and see what address did you use to send your bitcoin  (compare with your trans history in coinbase)
2. Check with seller if they uses unique new address for each sale or using same address for all users (logically they should be using same address)
3. If its same then you should see multiple receivings from different customers along with you transaction <----- means seller denying the receiving

4. Now if they generate unique address each sale, ask them how they generate and how they keep track of it. It is possible new address generated and lost by seller.

If the seller is honest and legitimate they will help. Otherwise you can only forget and curse the seller :p

In case second scenario if you sent to wrong address then you have trace the source of that address and request the source to send it back.

Possible case and might considered to investigate around if you did send into the right address.This is really plausible if someone neglect or denied on receiving it on exact address but he refuse that he receive nothing then its just a pure scam but if you sent it on a wrong address then for sure considered those bitcoins are lost forever since theres no way on reversing such transaction which had been broadcasted already.

I hate it when people are easily scammed like this. Bitcoin transaction is a one way thing. At least try to investigate the address you send it to. Probably the vendor did received it but lying. You should run a background check on the vendor's address to know if it is linked with the address you send it too.The only thing there is that; if you find out he is lying, you can't nail him if you don't know him physical.

"I sent the Bitcoin to an address for deposit."I came across the vendor on another site

First thing. Is it the exact same address that the vendor has given to you? Put both on a notepad and compare.

"I came across the vendor on another site"

What another site? Is the same vendor using another site? You need to give a better explanation so people could help you. But one thing is for sure, you will never be able to ask for a chargeback from Bitcoin. If you have sent, it is not yours anymore.

I don't think there is any remedy as to retrieving the bitcoin, he sent a bitcoin to a wrong address except the vendor decides to have a change of heart. His post points to a direction, which is that he has lost it unfortunately .

There is no way to get back your bitcoins so you need to be careful with the address while making transactions,lots of newbies are making errors while copying the address.But the vendor may scam you so you need to check the address again.That is why there are escrows available for crypto transaction next time don't forget to hire an escrow while purchasing something.

Maybe you should change your exchange platform for more reliable one?

This is one of the big limitations of BTC and other cryptocurrencies. Once you have made a transaction and its confirmed, you can't undo that. Just make sure you have entered the right address before making a transaction to avoid any problem.

How would I find out who the owner is?

Address Bitcoin was sent to: 1ALVchc4GFVwRFV58PdtdddcCmCAyS7G6b

Block Hash: 0000000000000000000ce2afd4b85ba2abb3565e3b40584246c09ac968ab508b

Final Destination:  1ALVchc4GFVwRFV58PdtdddcCmCAyS7G6b(spent)               


Block‎ #512054

So you sent 0.0485 BTC to "1ALVch..." in this transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/b408b84eeb9a4a630537f2c453e0b3506faf5903a8f945fea3643e697c488a82 ???

If so, that BTC was confirmed as you say in Block# 512013... and was then subsequently spent by the owner of that address (https://blockchain.info/tx/4adf53e1b94fbffd2c0029aa6596b9d1b32704c542b3a840f7d7da42f8c6ea47)

If the person you tried to send BTC to is saying that "1ALVch.." is NOT their address, then either you've sent it to the wrong address (accidentally copy/pasted the wrong address... or clipboard malware?)... or the vendor is trying to scam you.

Do you have a record anywhere of where you got this address from? Like an email or IM message or something? Or did you just copy it from a website?

Unless the owner of the address has linked that address to some sort of identifying information (ie. posted it in a message from an account, or posted it as a "tip" address on a website or something), then your chances of identifying the owner are relatively slim... Additionally, for the amount of BTC you've lost, it probably isn't worth trying to use a blockchain analysis service either.

Limited emission and missed coins is one of values of decentralization bitcoin. It will lead growing BTC.

if in my opinion not lost but stolen by a group of people who are not responsible. want to have a lot of assets but lazy hard work. finally they use a shortcut .

One thing that you know is that you did not send the bitcoin <with a typo> to a address without a owner. <because the bitcoins have been moved by the owner of the other address to another adress> You are dealing with a scammer or a thief, because this person is using those funds.

If it was a random address and it had a owner, then that owner would have noticed that money and they would send it back, if it was not meant for them. <if you were lucky>

Bitcoin gives individuals 100% control over their finances and unfortunately that come with a lot of responsibilities. You cannot go back to Banks or centralized services, if something goes wrong, you have to deal with that on your own.

It is pretty unlikely to send coins to an address with a typo. Addresses include a 32 bit checksum.
This means: 1 out of 4.294.967.296 addresses with a typo included actually is a valid address.

The chance of misstyping an address and the address still being accepted because its valid, are less than 0.00000002 %


Now multiply that probability with the probability of sending to a random address which does have an owner.
You could pretty much say thats 0 chance.

OP, I'm afraid your bitcoin is long gone and I think it the work of the seller because the wallet was new address. Besides, only 1transaction was ever sent to account 1ALVchc4GFVwRFV58PdtdddcCmCAyS7G6b on 2018-03-04 20:47:27 and the same transaction was moved the next day at 2018-03-05 01:57:30. My advice for you is to be more careful next time.

No it's impossible to get back your bitcoin. In cryptomarket if you send your btc to any person then you can't get it back so beaware of it and next time be careful about it.And in this case i think you send bitcoin to any scam person so forget your btc and in future Never send to other person like this.If that member is from this forum then you can give him negative feedback so it will helpbmany peoples to save their btc.

In general you can allways check through any bitcoin scanner, whether there are coin movements on a certain bitcoin address. But make sure, you are not typing your private key into it. Just your puplic address.

How I wish i could tell you there is a way to get your bitcoin back but the hard truth is that any transaction done on the block chain is an irreversible transaction. Once the transaction have been made you cannot change your mind and say, you want to take back your bitcoin. You will have to be careful next time since the person is claiming he did not received any bitcoin.

lossing bitcoin is only possible option is to figure out where you got that address which you sent to. if you can find out the owner then you may ask him to send it back. otherwise if you copied a wrong address or for example if you have a clipboard-hijacker malware on your computer which changes copied bitcoin addresses, then you are out of luck....

Sadly you lost that bitcoin, every transaction is irreversible. Please check the exact address you sent, if it is correct then maybe he cheated on you. This is a lesson for future transactions, you should be more careful.

 I only can tell you careful next time when sending BTC, remember to protect your PC/laptop with antivirus, I read some topic and people talk about bitcoin address changing when they send btc after copy paste, so always double check address.