Wrong bitcoin adress

[FreeTheTrees]

I have sent my bitcoins to a wrong adress, is there any way to get it back?

[cissrawk]

Did you just sent it to altcoin address or to different bitcoin address that you want to sent?
If altcoin, afaik it will go back to your address. But if it wrong destination like different address that you want to sent, then you can't get it back.

[NeuroticFish]

Bitcoin transactions are not reversible. If the transaction has confirmations, you can't get your money back unless you know who that address belongs to, you ask nicely and he sends the money back (quite an unlikely scenario in most of the cases).
If the transaction has no confirmations, especially if the transaction was sent with a very low fee, if you hurry up, you can avoid getting it confirmed, so you receive that money.

If you've sent the bitcoins to an address from a forked coin (eg bcash), the recipient can access those bitcoins and, again, you can ask the recipient to recover/send them back to you (and if it's a reputed service/exchange, they may help you out).


But in most of the cases the answer is "no, sorry, not possible". You have to be extra careful what to send and where.

[FreeTheTrees]

Sadly I dont know the owner of the adress. I wanted to buy sth and I got the wrong adress. I think it was the adress the new bitcoin would be sent to if I would have bought some instead of giving my own. Now I have just payed 100€ for free. At least I learned sth from this.

[mocacinno]

Sadly I dont know the owner of the adress. I wanted to buy sth and I got the wrong adress. I think it was the adress the new bitcoin would be sent to if I would have bought some instead of giving my own. Now I have just payed 100€ for free. At least I learned sth from this.

I have a hard time following the logic here... You wanted to exchange BTC to STH, but accidentally copied some other btc address shown on the exchange site? In this case you do know the owner of the address: the exchange's admin.
If he's an honest person running an honest business, the odds of him sending your BTC back if you ask him nicely are reasonable

[Pmalek]

In addition to mocacinno reply, can you post the address where you sent the bitcoins to? Lets see if it belongs to an exchange or some user who posted it online somewhere so we can try to search for him and help you contact him.

[AB de Royse777]

In addition to mocacinno reply, can you post the address where you sent the bitcoins to? Lets see if it belongs to an exchange or some user who posted it online somewhere so we can try to search for him and help you contact him.

The chances are nearly to zero. There are millions of addresses and finding one specific address owner who you can recognise it nearly to zero possibility.

My suggestion to OP and others is that please please double check or even triple check the sending address.

I hope 100€ is not much for you. Use the learning of course.

[Thirdspace]

Sadly I dont know the owner of the adress. I wanted to buy sth and I got the wrong adress. I think it was the adress the new bitcoin would be sent to if I would have bought some instead of giving my own. Now I have just payed 100€ for free. At least I learned sth from this.

if you don't exactly know who owns the address, can you at least remember where you get the address?
if you copied from a web/exchange site, you should contact the person in charge of that site
wherever you got it from can give you a pointer to who owns that given address (or how to access it)
also just like others said, post the address... so we can start with something and try to figure it out

[joniboini]

Sadly I dont know the owner of the adress. I wanted to buy sth and I got the wrong adress. I think it was the adress the new bitcoin would be sent to if I would have bought some instead of giving my own. Now I have just payed 100€ for free. At least I learned sth from this.

I have a hard time following the logic here... You wanted to exchange BTC to STH, but accidentally copied some other btc address shown on the exchange site? In this case you do know the owner of the address: the exchange's admin.
If he's an honest person running an honest business, the odds of him sending your BTC back if you ask him nicely are reasonable

I think he meant "something" when he wrote "sth", just like he did at the last of his post. So the story is more or less: he wanted to buy something with Bitcoin, found an address that he thought will be the address to send the payment, turns out it is a wrong address.

But it is weird for a marketplace to display address here and there, mind sharing where you want to do this trade?

[xhomerx10]

Sadly I dont know the owner of the adress. I wanted to buy sth and I got the wrong adress. I think it was the adress the new bitcoin would be sent to if I would have bought some instead of giving my own. Now I have just payed 100€ for free. At least I learned sth from this.

 What?  You would have sent Bitcoin to buy Bitcoin?  You're doing it wrong.