Is the coin completely gone or can be recovered?

[Coyster]

This kind of mistake do happen and most times it happens when the sender has failed to verify the bitcoin address before sending it.

Such a mistake should not be happening. I wonder how some people get their wallet address when they want to send funds. I believe they save it somewhere in the device, along with addresses of other acquaintances, and that is how they make mistakes like this. They copy the wrong address thinking it is theirs.

Whenever you want to send coins, you copy your address directly from your wallet, not from your wallets transaction history, because if you do that you can fall for address poisoning scam. You either generate a new address or you copy your address directly from your wallets address tab. If you do this, you cannot make this mistake, except you are hit with a clipboard hijacking malware and that why you should double check the address before hitting send, not just the first and last characters, all of the characters.

[Out of mind]

While I was at work earlier today a friend reach out to me that he sent $300 worth of bitcoin to an address he thought was he’s but later realized it wasn’t and it must have been one of his friends address and he can’t recognise the owner of the address so I ask him to trace by confirm from WhatsApp if they had exchange address before to identify the one that matches that transaction but unfortunately for him he said he lost his whole chat because he just replaced his lost phone. In this case is there anyway he could identify who owns the address the wallet is actually trust wallet.

It is a very sad incident, why not lose $300 which would be very painful for a person. Although we should all be careful in transactions, it is most important to check the addresses first. If the person has sent it to a friend's address, then if they don't know it, then there is no way to identify it, what is lost can never be recovered. If he gets the WhatsApp conversation back, if that address is there, then it can be confirmed and if it is not there, then he will never get his money back. If he can get the account back with his WhatsApp number and if he gets the transaction address from those conversations, then maybe he can confirm it. Otherwise, he will never get his lost bitcoins back, so we should always trade carefully and learn from this.

[HajiBagi]

While I was at work earlier today a friend reach out to me that he sent $300 worth of bitcoin to an address he thought was he’s but later realized it wasn’t and it must have been one of his friends address and he can’t recognise the owner of the address so I ask him to trace by confirm from WhatsApp if they had exchange address before to identify the one that matches that transaction but unfortunately for him he said he lost his whole chat because he just replaced his lost phone. In this case is there anyway he could identify who owns the address the wallet is actually trust wallet.

The coin is completely gone because i don’t see any way they can recover the coin, if the friend still has access to the wallet it will be better but since he said the wallet is in his lost phone that means he can not recover it, the only way they can use is if the friend have the seed phrase or anything that will make them have access to the wallet, since he said that the wallet is in his lost phone that means they should forget about the coin and take heart.

It is very painful to lose $300, $300 is not a small amount but anything can happen and no one is above mistake, we should use this one as an example to learn how to send coin next time, when we want to make a transaction through our wallet we should be careful and calm down, check the wallet very well and make sure it is correct because wallet address is not like a bank that you can trace it and find the owner.