Help! Sent BCH to a BTC Address!

[aywang]

Yesterday for the first time I bought BCH. Like the idiot I am I sent it from the exchange to my Trezor Bitcoin wallet. It was a segwit address (it started with a 3) so the old legacy address trick wont work.

I'm still waiting for a reply from Trezor, and I've sent a help request to admin@btc.com, a service that used to help people in a similar situation.

Now I am reaching out to you bitcointalk, am I screwed? Is there anyone out there who can help me out? I'm willing to split a large portion of my recovered funds.

[Banadony]

we are in the same shoe bro. i send a stable coin token to a Non custodian wallet in an online wallet. although the token is an ERC wallet, the company that owners the wallet says they are not in control of the Ethereum wallet in the platform. i just lost over 80,000 worth of token in my local currency. i don't think i can forget this and it is painful thing to  remember.

[aywang]

Damn bro RIP.

[bitmover]

Now I am reaching out to you bitcointalk, am I screwed? Is there anyone out there who can help me out? I'm willing to split a large portion of my recovered funds.

You need the help of a miner. You will have to pay for him to include your transaction in a BCH block.


Segwit addresses are invalid in bch network, so your transaction is non standard


More information here:
https://blog.coinbase.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-recent-bch-hard-fork-incident-2ee14132f435

Allow Segwit recovery. Segwit is an address format that is valid on the BTC network and invalid on the BCH network. BCH coins are occasionally sent to segwit addresses, which, prior to this upgrade, resulted in these coins being unspendable. This upgrade changed the status of these coins from being unspendable to, in certain cases, being claimable by BCH miners. Part II provides more information on this.


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Recovering P2WPKH Segwit funds.

As we have previously mentioned, in order to spend funds accidentally sent to a P2WPKH (Pay-to-Witness-Public-Key-Hash) segwit address on the BCH network, a miner must know the hash of that address’s public key. The public key hash may be obtained directly from the owner of the address or, if the same segwit address has spent funds on the BTC blockchain, extracted from the transaction that spent the funds on the BTC blockchain.

At least you certainly learned a lot about addresses, segwit, private keys, public keys in your trouble

[aywang]

Thanks for the tip. I've already reached out to antpool and btc.com as miners to possibly help me out. Do you have any recommendations as to who I could reach out to or how I would go about searching for them?

Thats part of the reason I made this post, to advertise to any miners who may be willing to work with me.

[barlo357]

As far as I know, that having cross-chain transaction will cost you some money since the blockchain of your coins and wallet are different. I've experience that on my local bitcoin wallet where I send USDT and after contacting customer service they told me that they will deduct bitcoins on my wallet after fixing my issue.

[Rickorick]

There's a miner on reddit r/btc forum that helps. You can make a post there and reach out to them.

[Balili]

I have not been into this problem before and I once heard once this problem occur it's a gone for the coin but seeing people here talking about getting help from miners shows hope.

[Rengga Jati]

Yesterday for the first time I bought BCH. Like the idiot I am I sent it from the exchange to my Trezor Bitcoin wallet. It was a segwit address (it started with a 3) so the old legacy address trick wont work.

First of all, I'd say "sorry to hear that".
Second, and in fact, this is not the first case, there were still many cases similar to this, sending BCH to the wrong address (BTC address). I even read in several forums with the same question, which is the "wrong address".
Third, here is the case and what will happend to the coin and what should do:
You may find out in these following links. I do not know whether these can still work or not, but you can try them:
1. https://chaintuts.com/?p=499https://support.edge.app/support/solutions/articles/8000068596-how-to-recover-my-bch-if-i-accidentally-sent-into-a-bitcoin-segwit-address-on-edge-

Unfortunately, due to rules in the BCH network there is no way for our wallet or engineers to recover your funds, but your funds can be recovered with the help of a BCH miner. They use your information to create a transaction on your behalf and include it in a block that they find (for a fee). We have had success in the past utilizing BTC.com’s recovery service here: https://bch.btc.com/docs/help/bch_segwit_recovery *This automated service is discontinued but we've heard from users that they've received recovery assistance by emailing admin@btc.com and support@btc.com*

They require three pieces of information in order to recover your funds.

1. Bitcoin Cash transaction hash on Segwit address
The wallet/exchange that sent the funds can provide this information

2. Public key for this Segwit address
This needs to be generated with your private seed. Follow these steps:

• Tap on the three dots to the right of the BTC wallet that holds the misplaced BCH
  Master Private Key
  Write down the private key phrase exactly
  Go to https://iancoleman.io/bip39/
  Enter the private key phrase into the BIP39 Mnemonic field
  Under Derivation Path, select BIP49
  Under Derived Addresses, the public key you are looking for is next to the address that holds the BCH
  

3. Address to receive Bitcoin Cash
This is the address you want the recovered BCH sent to. In Edge, your BCH wallet address will begin with “bitcoincash:”

Enter these three pieces of information into the BTC.com form and they will attempt to recover your funds.

2. https://chaintuts.com/?p=499

[timmmers]

Yes, probably you will not see your Bitcoin Cash coins because both chains are not compatible and the transaction reversal is not possible. Also I think that the private key from Bitcoin Cash network will not generate same address on Bitcoin network.
So next time, be more careful. 

[DarkDays]

Import your BTC private key into Exodus wallet and then sweep for BCH.

This will automatically extract your BCH from the BTC chain and return it to another account.

Several other wallets offer a similar feature.

[semobo]

^
This seems the easiest way to recover your funds and you no need to pay any fees to any miners if you got succeeded with this method.

Hope we will see a good news from you.

[bitmover]

Import your BTC private key into Exodus wallet and then sweep for BCH.

This will automatically extract your BCH from the BTC chain and return it to another account.

Several other wallets offer a similar feature.

I don't think this will work. There are many discussions about his situation around the web, in cryptocurrency related forums such as reddit, medium, stackexchange, and so on.

His BCHs are not in BTC chain. His transaction is non-standard in BCH's blockchain and is not recognized by the other nodes (who will refuse to propagate it), as it is not part of the consensus rules of that blockchain.

He basically sent his money to nowhere, and he must pay a miner to go there and get it.\

You can read more here:

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-recent-bch-hard-fork-incident-2ee14132f435

II. Spending BCH from segwit addresses
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A miner must agree to mine the transaction. This is because the BCH transactions required to spend from a segwit address are “nonstandard transactions,” which means they are valid transactions but will not propagate across the network, because network nodes refuse to relay nonstandard transactions.

[kang_kung]

Import your BTC private key into Exodus wallet and then sweep for BCH.

This will automatically extract your BCH from the BTC chain and return it to another account.

Several other wallets offer a similar feature.

I don't think this will work. There are many discussions about his situation around the web, in cryptocurrency related forums such as reddit, medium, stackexchange, and so on.

His BCHs are not in BTC chain. His transaction is non-standard in BCH's blockchain and is not recognized by the other nodes (who will refuse to propagate it), as it is not part of the consensus rules of that blockchain.

He basically sent his money to nowhere, and he must pay a miner to go there and get it.\

You can read more here:

https://blog.coinbase.com/a-deep-dive-into-the-recent-bch-hard-fork-incident-2ee14132f435

II. Spending BCH from segwit addresses
---snip--
A miner must agree to mine the transaction. This is because the BCH transactions required to spend from a segwit address are “nonstandard transactions,” which means they are valid transactions but will not propagate across the network, because network nodes refuse to relay nonstandard transactions.

Yeah, his best bet to recover his lost assets is finding a miner that willing to mine his special transaction (for a fee). Don't waste time with other things.