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

[GDragon]

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?

Never experienced this but I think the only mistake that can be possible here is copying a wrong address cause it's natural to make mistakes like that, copying the wrong address of someone specially if you are sending btc to a lot of people and you are just copy pasting their wallet before sending. This is the reason why I'm always scared sending my btc to a wallet of mine, cause I'm too scared coppy-pasting the wrong one lol. But 1 letter bit off or 1 letter mistake is kind of impossible, I'm not sure but just 1 letter off then there's another person with the wallet like that? I don't think so, there are so many combinations in our wallet address, and kind of impossible to think that there is a wallet address 1 letter of with your wallet address.

[Shasha80]

If we send BTC to many addresses, sometimes sending it to the wrong address, because we can accidentally copy the wrong address.
I have experienced it several times, therefore if I plan to send BTC to multiple addresses, I don't do it all at once. I do it gradually,
it can prevent mistakes from happening. Receiving BTC from another address or an unknown address has never happened to me.

[khaled0111]

The chances of randomly typing a valid bitcoin address are almost the same chances of finding a private key of an address that have been used before. It's almost impossible, at least I didn't hear it happened before.
Of course it's possible to generate an address with a valid checksum, but what are the chances that someone else possesses its private key! (Zero).

Dust attacks are more common on the bitcoin network and are done mainly for blockchain analysis purposes.

[MFahad]

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 am not so lucky to receive bitcoin accidently from any unknown sources. I think its rare that people receives any bitcoin in this way.
Also while sending bitcoin i double check the receiver's address so that the coins go into the right wallet.

[Rengga Jati]

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?

Never did it, both sending or receiving the BTC from or to the wrong wallet address. The carefulness is the key when we are sending the BTC or other crypto to the other wallet. Should pay attention more to the wallet address and also Memo or Tag for some coin. Well, it may happen in several cases to send the coin to the wrong address. But, if we check it triple times, we may not need to do that mistake, aside from the hurry condition, I think we must carefully and repeatedly checking the address.

But, if we received BTC or coins from other wallets, who know, it may happen because of the wrong action of the sender by copying and pasting the wrong address or event typing the wrong letters.

The chance of sending BTC to BCH or BSV is very low. How could this happen?

Maybe it happens when someone doesn't know the difference between BTC and BCH. or probably they think that the wallet is the same. Or, probably they are in a hurry  

[pankowri]

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.

That didn't happen to me either. I hope it doesn't happen by mistake

[7788bitcoin]

Dust attacks are more common on the bitcoin network and are done mainly for blockchain analysis purposes.

There were times when dust attacks were common in the bitcoin network but i do not see those as analysis because the attack was concentrated during the phase when the big blockers were having their say on the future of bitcoin and they wanted to show that the block size needs to be improved and till now i view those as attacks against bitcoin so that people would side by them and not for analysis.

Coming into this point what OP is asking i never received accidental coins in my wallets nor i have sent coins to address like that especially when the price of bitcoin started to rise, i always recheck before sending the coins but in the beginning i was too casual but i do not remember making a mistake.

[Sadlife]

Never experience it also, but in my perspective its probably human error probably due to he/she is doing multiple address transaction, and messed up the last characters of the address that's almost identical because most address are 50% unique especially when the address is the same country, they tend to have the same prefix. Probably the person is a project manager of a large scale campaign with payment method of BTC.

[gabbie2010]

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?

I agreed with you here, however there are some instances when a PC or laptop is comprised or probably hacked the owner may mistakenly send the crypto to the hacker address unknowingly, this is what I have personally witnessed whenever I copied the original address of my recipient and paste on blockchain or any wallet terminal the BTC address of the hacker will be pasted instead, if not of my cautiousness and alertness I would have been skrewed and probably send the BTC to the hacker.

[Alucard1]

I haven't encountered yet receiving any funds from an unknown crypto wallet but if I have, it would be a blessing for me , the person who gets wrong of sending the funds in the wrong crypto waller would be so sad because it is their lost especially if we are talking about the huge amount of money but they can't do anything just to turn back the money that has sent to a wrong crypto wallet. This should be a lesson for them that we really need to double-check the recipient's crypto wallet before we send the funds.

[affandi]

A tense incident happened to me during Bitcoin HardFork. At that time the local exchange that I usually use to convert BTC into local currency here decided to change the bitcoin address of its users (including myself). when I try to deposit as much as 0.5BTC from a private wallet to a local exchange without looking at the address again (because I have stored the bitcoin address I usually use for depositing), after a while I wait for a transaction that doesn't work, then I try to check the exchange wallet address which turned out to be updated. I was afraid of losing it, but after I tried to communicate with the owner (employee to be precise) of the exchange and explained all the chronology of what happened, the exchange happily transferred my BTC from the old address to the new one. In essence nothing will send BTC to our address for free, except only an error or a computer infected with a virus that changes the address randomly (it also happened to my friend)

[BuNga_cute]

I am quite a meticulous person in every way, so I've never had an experience sending Bitcoin to the wrong address.
And I also never received Bitcoin from an unknown address too, even though I really hope to receive Bitcoin deposits
from an address that I don't know .

In fact, so that we don't send Bitcoin to the wrong address, we have to check repeatedly before sending Bitcoin,
make sure the Bitcoin address is correct, don't rush to send. Check repeatedly more than one must be done.

[Kupid002]

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.

That didn't happen to me either. I hope it doesn't happen by mistake

Exactly this things will happen by mistake if you copy wrong address which is from different users . But if you are sure that you are always copying the right address then I don't think you will experience that mistake . The only possible mistake you can do is to send different amount from what you plan to send .

[Reatim]

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?

yups i received small amount of Bitcoin last year from unknown wallet but i waited for someone to send me PM or any form of claiming so i can resend but no one contacted me ,though until now the amount is under my wallet.

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

there is nothing that you can benefits if you send Bitcoin to another coins wallet because for sure you will regret that action.
the funds will be gone in the wind and will never be recover again.

[bitzizzix]

I have never had the experience of receiving or sending bitcoins with the wrong address, because I always pay attention or control back numbers or letters when giving my bitcoin wallet address to receive or send bitcoins to other addresses.
because if one of the letters or numbers will be fatal, you must pay attention repeatedly to send or receive a bitcoin address until the address is correct and not wrong and do it casually in no hurry.

[Ludmilla_rose1995]

I've had the wrong experience of sending BTC when paying for online purchases, but it's not my fault. At that time, the seller gave me the wrong address, and I copied and pasted the address. when I told him that BTC was delivered, he even accused me of sending it to the wrong address. even though she gave me the wrong address. Finally, he admitted his mistake and apologized to me and immediately sent my order

[kryptqnick]

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.

I received some tokens to my Ethereum wallet sometimes (I don't remember the details, but I think there was a thing a few years ago with random distribution of tokens to wallets that can receive them). As for Bitcoin, my sister received a ton of BTC once, and we thought it was an accident and were thinking what to do about it and whether to send it back. We bought a cake and some other stuff, spending about 30 dollars from that money, and then it turned out that the money was sent intentionally by our father 
As for me sending cryptos mistakenly, it never happened. I'm aware of scams that might change the copied address to a different one and similar, so I always double-check the address (not the full address, to be honest, but a few symbols at the beginning and at the end).

[Majharul Saiif]

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

Thanks for knowing me. It was not known to me before. I haven't sent or received from anyone yet. In the future, I will do it with this electrom.org. I hope I will not face any problem. Everyone should be careful when sending and receiving. Neither is suffering.

[Lucax.finance]

I think that it is not very difficult since the wallet contains many alphanumeric characters and it is very difficult to make mistakes if you write it wrong, maybe it will probably fall to another person but it is very difficult, this is in the case of BTC or BCH in others Cryptocurrencies can be a bit easier because you only need a username and you can make mistakes more easily

[bitmover]

I haven't sent or received from anyone yet. In the future, I will do it with this electrom.org. I hope I will not face any problem.

Hey, be careful.
Go to Electrum.org



There are many phising websites around, and only electrum.org is the real one.
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