If i send my bitcoins to a wrong address, what happens?

[Dasvino]

Hi!
As the title says, what happens if i get an address wrong? Do the coins get lost?
If that's what happens, why not change the code in Bitcoin, so that if the bitcoin network cant detect that address, returns the bitcoins to you?

It might cause us to lose incorrectly using the wrong address, if the address bitcoin receiver is active then it will not be easy for us to get it back

[cryptokitty]

What happens?

A random stranger has a really good day, and you lose your coins.

Yes, you will totally lost your btc and forget about it and the other one will be enjoying your btc because he/she gets some btc without doing nothing.

[Bukx]

In a couple of years, with so many coins lost this way, not sure many will be left, since bitcoins are limited to 21 million and losing coins by sending them to wrong address's will keep on happening. Anyone can make a simple mistake copying the address, even though it's easy.

All people who involve in bitcoin know that your bitcoin will loss. You can not recover it.

About the total of bitcoin getting less because of wrong send to any address, it can really happen if no body own the address anymore. If the address where we send it still belong to someone, it means it is just hand over to the other hand.

[Tiger Junk]

If that will happen you can not recover it, and that was a big loss because you might lose some bitcoins and my advice for you is always check before you click, we all know that bitcoins is very important for us so my advice is always double check the address.

[mintomia199]

if your address is not in a proper format,it will show error.but if you send bitcoin in any other wallet accept from bitcoin,you coin will be lost forever and can not refundable.so be careful before sending any coin.

[farhan28]

sad but you will lost your coin & someone will be lucky...because after sending in wrong address, you can't recover it from being sent...so when you send bitcoin in any address, you need to more careful...

[codered000]

If it's an invalid address, the transaction will fail. But if it's valid of course someone will receive your Bitcoin and it won't be a lost bitcoin unless they don't have access to that address anymore.

[spiritguardcharles]

Obviously,you will end up losing your money and there's no guarante that you will be able to retrieved the money you lost.However,it's really a common mistake which everyone could not avoid but we could prevent it if we properly handle our money with care and use some alternative precautions in order to have a clean and safe transaction and even withdrawing your money

[Wyne]

Hi!
As the title says, what happens if i get an address wrong? Do the coins get lost?
If that's what happens, why not change the code in Bitcoin, so that if the bitcoin network cant detect that address, returns the bitcoins to you?

If you send your bitcoin into wrong address, this is a mistake you will truly regret because it only means that your bitcoin will lost forever and it is impossible to return to you.  That is the reason why you have to be very careful on entering your bitcoin address.  Besides, you can just copy  (using copy command) your address and paste it (using paste command) into the address bar instead of typing it character by character to avoid mistakes in your transaction.  It is a precaution to everyone because bitcoin address is the pathway to receive your bitcoin earnings.

[West0813]

Its hard to recover bitcoins that send to a wrong address. So be careful, make sure that you enter your address correctly. Double check if needed before you put your address.

[Quinrock]

Just becareful if you sent and you look first then check the address of you sent.

[markk94]

if you input wrong bitcoin wallet address on the process of transaction, your bitcoins will be gone to that "wrong" bitcoin address and you cannot retrieve it back to your wallet. please becareful next time

[Lorna t]

In my points here is, sometimes we make mistake of tyiping anykind of letters and numbers we do not know when its mistaken sometimes it happens to me that situation is easy if we made a mistake at that point we should let to know the administration here for they give us an active way to change our address that we can mistakenly change to let us know that we are wrong .it is a coin that will be discussed and your coin is lost then your clip board and passed in the wrong way and valid address then you have to accept as no way to get that and return your coins .unless if someone holds a private key that the way that address send them back to you .so be careful and what ever you write or type it.pls check and read it again...

[jeepuerit]

When you make a mistake passing your bitcoins to a different wallet address it certainly will not go back, now because there are many people who like bitcoin. So be sure to put a wallet address.

[sambuki]

Hi!
As the title says, what happens if i get an address wrong? Do the coins get lost?
If that's what happens, why not change the code in Bitcoin, so that if the bitcoin network cant detect that address, returns the bitcoins to you?

Tbh, I don't know what will happen if we send to the address that doesn't exist. Maybe the coin will be lost forever.

[pathapoddo]

If you send Bitcoin to a wrong address and if the address is existing then it's your bad luck. Or if the address has no existing then it's your good luck. One month later it will come to your wallet again.

[e1ght]

Wow, this whole thread has turned into a place for people to up their post count.
The original question is from 2011 with hundreds of answers and they're all the same.
You lose your coins.

Why are people still commenting years later?

[laravuemaster]

Then your coins is gone if the current address you are sending is existing. To avoid this kind of problems, You should place your money on those exchangers that has an email confirmation before sending your coins into another address to withdraw.

[Aryadwipanggah]

if you send bitcoin to wrong address make sure your bitcoin will disappear and it's very hard to go back, unless the bitcoin address owner you sent would be kind enough to return it

[palensya]

Hi!
As the title says, what happens if i get an address wrong? Do the coins get lost?
If that's what happens, why not change the code in Bitcoin, so that if the bitcoin network cant detect that address, returns the bitcoins to you?

That would be your loss if you had sent it to a wrong address I dont think that the wrong address you had sent would return that to you unless you have proper communication with. But i doubt if the wallet owner would return it. It would be a lucky day for that wrong wallet address.