Is there a way to contact a person owning certain bitcoin address in case you made a mistake and send your money wrong way?
Can you attach some kind of message to bitcoin transaction?
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Is it possible he sent them to a non-existent address? (not sure whether Coinbase would let you do that or not though).
You can't send bitcoins to an invalid address,
I know but I don't know how Coinbase works. Does it give you some sort of an invalid address error if you typed in an incorrect/non-existent address or could it just deduct the coins from your balance whilst not actually 'officially' sending them. I seem to remember reading something like this happened on some other exchange or dice site a while back.
Oh. No, coinbase won't allow you to send bitcoins to an invalid address.
I believe if it is an address that is mistyped it will be sent back once it is seen that bitcoin address does not go to any one wallet.
I sent some nit coin from my coin base to my normal wallet but I think added the wrong addressing. Is there anyway to recover this. Maybe put the address I sent it to as a new address in my wallet? But how would I do that?
Theres nothing you can do about that. Its already send to that address. You cant recover btc you already sent because its irreversible. Be careful next time when manually enter the address. Just copy carefully the whole address and paste it. Check if its the right address you copy before sending btc to the address. 
What is the address you sent the coins to?
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Is it possible he sent them to a non-existent address? (not sure whether Coinbase would let you do that or not though).
You can't send bitcoins to an invalid address,
I know but I don't know how Coinbase works. Does it give you some sort of an invalid address error if you typed in an incorrect/non-existent address or could it just deduct the coins from your balance whilst not actually 'officially' sending them. I seem to remember reading something like this happened on some other exchange or dice site a while back.
The only way you can recover your bitcoins is if you can find the address where you sent wrongly.
You can try your luck, you can send 0.0001 btc and send a message during the transaction to the receiver asking him to get your coins back. This will depend on the honesty of the other person, always when that address exists and that's the only possibility to recover (highly unlikely).
There's no other way. If you don't remember the address that you sent wrong pretty much 100% you can't recover your coins.
You can try your luck, you can send 0.0001 btc and send a message during the transaction to the receiver asking him to get your coins back. This will depend on the honesty of the other person, always when that address exists and that's the only possibility to recover (highly unlikely).
There's no other way. If you don't remember the address that you sent wrong pretty much 100% you can't recover your coins.
Is it possible he sent them to a non-existent address? (not sure whether Coinbase would let you do that or not though).
If by nonexistent you mean invalid address, then no. It's possible he sent the Bitcoin to an address for which no one owns the private key to, but that would be impossible to know. Is it possible he sent them to a non-existent address? (not sure whether Coinbase would let you do that or not though).
You can't send bitcoins to an invalid address, but if OP mistyped the address and somehow got a valid address then it can go through.
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You should always double/triple check addresses. Can you post the transaction ID or copy the address you think you sent the money to if the txid isn't available?
Is it possible he sent them to a non-existent address? (not sure whether Coinbase would let you do that or not though).
All you can do is find out who owns the address you sent to and am then to return the Bitcoin.
Is it possible he sent them to a non-existent address? (not sure whether Coinbase would let you do that or not though).
No. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. You cannot just take over an address by putting it in your wallet.
All you can do is find out who owns the address you sent to and am then to return the Bitcoin.
All you can do is find out who owns the address you sent to and am then to return the Bitcoin.
I sent some nit coin from my coin base to my normal wallet but I think added the wrong addressing. Is there anyway to recover this. Maybe put the address I sent it to as a new address in my wallet? But how would I do that?
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