Holy crap I got my lost Dogecoin back from a bad address I sent to! Here is how!

[btc4peace]

OK, here is what happened.

I was using shapeshift and sent 16k Digibyte to be exchanged into 202.8k Dogecoin on June 3, 2017.  However, I accidentally pasted my Digibyte address for my receiving address and shapeshift then sent my 202k Doge to a Dogecoin address that matched my Digi-byte address (although nobody owned the Doge version of that address yet).

The fix requires that you have the private key for the erroneous wallet and goes like this:

First, I backed up both of my Digibyte and Dogecoin wallets and converted the remaining coins to Ether just in case I messed it up more...

Then, I went into my Digibyte wallet for android and exported the Private key again.

Then I went into the Android Dogecoin wallet app and imported the Digibyte keys.

The app crashed.

I reloaded the app and in the "address book-> my addresses" it shows the Digibyte address as one of my "old addresses" for Dogecoin. 

I resynced the network and sure enough, my 202,850 Doge were there so I converted them to ETH as well.

The end result is that I now own the same address at both the Digibyte network and the Dogecoin network so I suppose as far as shapeshift goes, it would be hard to mess it up.  Although, my plan is to reinstall the apps and start over for security purposes.

This article at Reddit is what got me thinking...
https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1t7x2m/for_those_who_sent_their_dogecoins_to_digitalcoin/#bottom-comments

Hope that helps someone else out there.   At this time, 202.850 Doge is worth over $700 so yea, I am happy.

[bathrobehero]

Yeah, if a wallet allows you to send coin X to a coin Y address, they likely use the exact same address generating logic so the private key, public address pair should work on both chains.

[ttookk]

Yeah, if a wallet allows you to send coin X to a coin Y address, they likely use the exact same address generating logic so the private key, public address pair should work on both chains.

Aren't there even multicoin-wallets, which use the same private key for different coins?

Good advice anyway. You are for sure not the first one who had something like this happening to them. There may even be potential for a cross-currency private key conversion tool, now that I think about it…

[btc4peace]

The newer versions of the wallet make this more difficult but can be done still.