Has anyone accidentally sent or received BTC to and from another address?

[jerry0]

I'm curious but has anyone here accidentally received btc or bch or any other coin from another address that you know was by accident?  Thus it was not direct and wasn't an airdrop or anything like that?


I had received a tiny bit of bitcoin cash to my nano ledger s... but it was tiny amount not even a penny worth... and someone who is very knowledgeable said it was a dusting attack which is almost harmless.


But is it almost impossible to send btc to the wrong address assuming you are off one letter or a bit off?  Or is odds going to show that address is incorrect?  Thus imagine the last letter or number you mean was f and typed e or it was 9 and typed e or 8... are the odds so low that... the address you wrote a letter off is incorrect?  Also all btc and those addresses are the exact number of characters right?


Now i heard a while back, if you send btc to a bch address or send bch to btc address, the coins are permanently lost.  Is that still true today?  I remember i heard back then in bittrex, if you do that, they could help you recover it but only if the amount you said was big like at least 5k usd.  Do they still assist now?


But if you were to send btc to bch address or vice versa... or to even bitcoin sv or bitcoin gold, what happens now?

[jerry0]

With sending, I could imagine many ppl make mistake right?  Example you mean to copy/paste a btc address to someone new or someone, but accidentally pasted someone else's address and pasted it and sent them the btc.  I assume that happens a ton with ppl by mistake right?  Whether its btc ot bch or any other coin?  But in those instances, I assume assuming you don't know that person personally... then you can't ask them... hey i accidentally sent you btc or bch or some other coin, can you send it back?


I assume the receiver could basically look at their wallet history and sort of determine who send them the accidental btc or bch or whatever coin it is?  But if its a big site such as exchange or processor who deals with tens of thousands of customers or more... then are you screwed?

[bitmover]

If you send bitcoin to another address you are screwed.

But if you are sending FROM another address, that is because you are using a wallet which doesn't support coin control.

I recommend that you try to use electrum. Electrum allows you to choose which input / address to spend from.

Download only from electrum.org

[n0ne]

I haven't used to it. Sending/receiving Bitcoin to a wrong account hasn't happened. If there exists an address upon our mistyping of the address, it might reach the particular location. The chance for the existence of the mistyped address is very low.

[hatshepsut93]

It never happened to me, and it's generally pretty rare, but if you're talking about really small amounts, it could be a dust attack. Maybe someone is trying to track you, or maybe this was just an advertisement spam, which is more likely - its purpose is to make you research the originating address, which probably belongs to some service. Or maybe it's just bcash people being desperate, and they try to promote their coin by giving away some tiny amounts.

[blockman]

The chance of sending BTC to BCH or BSV is very low. How could this happen? the addresses for those cryptos are entirely different in format so, someone who's sending it might have no experience and not aware of the addressing of different cryptocurrencies. And the chance of a replaced or wrong one letter or number at the end of the address, this is only possible if you will type the address manually. But does a lot of people still do this? it's simple and easy to copy paste the addresses if you are about to send.

[Baofeng]

Care to share that BCH address though? It seems this is another form of advertisement from them or some company that utilise BCH. Like this one (BSV): Spamming 547 satoshis. But why?. And maybe if you try to investigate the originator of that address, you are already fallen for their promotional trick.

[Renampun]

I have never experienced this both incidents...
Sending Bitcoin to the wrong address such as sending to another Bitcoin address, BCH address or BSV address is one of the biggest bad luck. fortunately, I never had that bad moment. I always check my destination wallet address first to make sure I have nothing to miss.

[20kevin20]

I do not think just random addresses are taken and placed into dust attacks. It may be an attempt to trace you, so I wouldn't take it as an "almost harmless" attack - but not something you should be necessarily panicked about either. I do have some addresses that have been dust-attacked before, but fortunately nothing's happened so far.

With sending, I could imagine many ppl make mistake right?  Example you mean to copy/paste a btc address to someone new or someone, but accidentally pasted someone else's address and pasted it and sent them the btc.  I assume that happens a ton with ppl by mistake right?  Whether its btc ot bch or any other coin?  But in those instances, I assume assuming you don't know that person personally... then you can't ask them... hey i accidentally sent you btc or bch or some other coin, can you send it back?


I assume the receiver could basically look at their wallet history and sort of determine who send them the accidental btc or bch or whatever coin it is?  But if its a big site such as exchange or processor who deals with tens of thousands of customers or more... then are you screwed?

If you send it to someone else's wallet, it's your fault and you are likely screwed unless the receiver decides he does not want to hold your coins and gives them back to the address they came from. The copy-paste thing mostly happens either due to clipboard viruses or simply due to the tx maker not paying attention. Always triple-check addresses before you push the Send button. Bitcoin's decentralized and its txs are irreversible and non-refundable, so you're on your own..!

[Astvile]

I once experience sending bitcoin to a wrong address but it was because of a malware. The malware where whenever you type in an address to send bitcoin in the owner of the malware wallets appear and without you checking and being confident that you copied the right address you will send it right away. Happened to me one time and lost 0.03 bitcoin which back then is big because that's when bitcoin reach its new ATH.

About sending BCH to a bitcoin wallet here is your guide to recover it (https://support.bitcoin.com/en/articles/3680104-i-accidentally-sent-bch-to-my-btc-wallet) so basically you can recover BCH not sure about other bitcoin forks if this will work too.

[BitMaxz]

I've been experienced this before that I received dust amount of BTC but I don't think if it was from faucet or someone trying to trace me but I only received dust amount on addresses which is already posted here on the forum. It might be a giveaway or someone donates you.

I also have experienced that I was accidentaly sent bitcoin to someone here on the forum with big amount of BTC but the owner of the address is also member here on the forum and tried to contact him and ask to sent the 90% of BTC and got my BTC back.

I never heard about bitrex if they can recover the amount that you accidentally sent but I think it's impossible right now except for unconfirmed transaction where you can perform a double spend.

About the last question I think BTC address and BitcoinSV address is the same so  if you sent BTC to BitcoinSV address you can only receive BTC but you won't be able to receive BitcoinSV.(You can only have BitcoinSV if you hold BTC during BlockHalving)

[EdenHazard]

No matter how careful you are , there's always a sloppy moments like this.
Here's my experience https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1531012.msg15409543#msg15409543 ...

0.13 btc that time was not as worth as today , it was worth only like $50 to $100 i guess. I earned more than 2 btc a month that time through trading, mining and high paying sig camp fj who pay you up to 0.2 btc a month damn sweet memories.
So yeah that's the nature of cryptocurrency that irreversible. Use with caution.

[UserU]

I did receive one huge amount of BTC on a gambling site once, and by large, it was several thousand dollars way more (in today's value) than I deposited.

Apparently it was an error from the site itself because a guy deposited that amount but somehow it got transferred to me.

[pooya87]

it is not possible to randomly send coin to an unknown valid address. you should have already had that address copied or stored in your wallet to send to, so you should have already known that address. unlike bank accounts, email addresses,... bitcoin addresses have a 32-bit checksum and changing a character is not going to give you a valid address because the chances of finding a collision is very small.

[shoreno]

maybe that was the time of fork where they gave away bch for the user that has some balance left thier wallets . i got bch too but same small amount because i dont store big btc balances on my purse . recieving btc to random wallet is i never experience but i did sent coin to a wrong address .  the odds are still low because the address are too long and we dont need to manually typed them but we copy and paste them .  i am still dreaming that someday i can get a 1 btc or higher amount from a stranger

[dothebeats]

I have collected over 1 btc from a dust attack in 2015 on a blockchain wallet that I no longer have access to, and I have received some couple of dollars here and there on my electrum wallet though I always return those back to the sender since I always think that these are from newbies that must have copied my address somewhere. Frankly I could have just kept those small amounts for myself but I am quite the paranoid person thinking that these transactions may be used against me when the time comes.

But is it almost impossible to send btc to the wrong address assuming you are off one letter or a bit off?  Or is odds going to show that address is incorrect?  Thus imagine the last letter or number you mean was f and typed e or it was 9 and typed e or 8... are the odds so low that... the address you wrote a letter off is incorrect?  Also all btc and those addresses are the exact number of characters right?

Bitcoin addresses can be 26 - 35 characters in length, depending on the format that your address is in. For more information, read: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Address

Now i heard a while back, if you send btc to a bch address or send bch to btc address, the coins are permanently lost.  Is that still true today?  I remember i heard back then in bittrex, if you do that, they could help you recover it but only if the amount you said was big like at least 5k usd.  Do they still assist now?

I don't remember bittrex doing that kind of support stuff back then. Perhaps if the transaction is unconfirmed, but if not, most exchanges would just tell you that you did something wrong and that's not their problem anymore.

But if you were to send btc to bch address or vice versa... or to even bitcoin sv or bitcoin gold, what happens now?

Circumstances remain the same. If you sent bitcoin to a BCH address, coins are lost forever.

[Initscri]

I wouldn't exactly say the actual transmission was an accident.

However, I have had a few clients in the past add an extra 0, or another digit substantially changing the amount - to which I promptly returned the overbalanced amount.

Once was actually a Digital Goods purchase on this forum.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

Yes. I have accidentally received a BTC from another address that it only has an amount of 0.01 BTC. I didn't know how it is possible because there is only a low percentage for us to have a similar BTC address, and for someone to make a mistake because we mostly copy and paste every address to complete a transaction. So I assume one of my friends secretly send me some BTC as a gift.

[tsaroz]

It has happen to me once. I don't remember the exact date but bitcoin was $230 for a unit. I was sending coins to my clients through a service that I was using and I was doing some transactions that day. I prefer doing Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V but was so careless that didn't realize the 2nd address was not copied and I ended up sending it to another client. The amount was just $10 but that would be 0.043 bitcoins at that time.
After the incident, I started checking my address twice and verifying both the starting and ending characters of address. And can tell that I have always sent coins to the address I wanted thereafter. I was hacked and scammed other ways but never by a address changing malware.

[supine]

I don't really think that it is possible to mistakenly send out in crypto currency unless there would be an error or your computer could be in a virus or whatever that could put up a wrong address.
How could you accidentally send a crypto when you are only going to copy and paste the address?