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October 28, 2017, 11:08:25 PM
#36
Only to accounts on web wallets.
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October 28, 2017, 06:48:40 PM
#35
I once heard a platform ...I think coinbase or so..do send bitcoin to email address... Am yet to know how that is possible tho....
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October 28, 2017, 04:54:58 AM
#34
I don't think it is possible, the only thing i know to send bitcoin is to ask them for thier bitcoin address, then using that address you can now send him/her a bitcoin. That's what i am doing.
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October 22, 2017, 02:33:59 AM
#33
Send an email, ask for their Bitcoin address, send the Bitcoins there. That's how Bitcoin works.
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October 21, 2017, 06:03:52 PM
#32
you have to use American wallet provider Coinbase but than you have to register and login into their website.
For clarification, your bitcoins are not stored locally on your machine, they are stored on the Bitcoin network which means they are also on my computer and on every other peer's computer. The difference is, you have the access to your bitcoins .
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October 21, 2017, 02:32:14 AM
#31
As far as I know is that Blockchain supported to send Bitcoin to an email address or even to a phone number in the early days. With the second version of the Wallet, they removed this feature along with other great security features.
Do you mean Blockchain (the website)? There's a Tutorial from 2014 for this indeed.
But, this isn't really sending Bitcoin as it's designed to be, it's just a third-party that promotes it's website to new users, and the sender can reverse the payment if it doesn't get claimed. It's kinda like sending a Paypal-payment to any email address that doesn't use Paypal yet.

Alternative, if you insist on paying in Bitcoin, just give them a funded paper wallet, in person. But to be honest it's just annoying if someone wants to pay you in a format you're not familiar with. If someone wants to pay me in Skrill for example, I'll politely decline.

Third party in the sense, you have are sending payment to email address with the wallet.dat file right.
If you want to send the bitcoin to the email address that is obviously not safe to send and hackers attack your transaction and steal that amount.

You can find this option in Coinbase, Xapo and etc...
But it says only invalid address bro, unless you added the dat file in the e-mail message.
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October 21, 2017, 01:25:13 AM
#30
you could send bitcoin by email if you are sending paper wallet to an email address. it is working.
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October 21, 2017, 12:53:02 AM
#29
As far as I know is that Blockchain supported to send Bitcoin to an email address or even to a phone number in the early days. With the second version of the Wallet, they removed this feature along with other great security features.
Do you mean Blockchain (the website)? There's a Tutorial from 2014 for this indeed.
But, this isn't really sending Bitcoin as it's designed to be, it's just a third-party that promotes it's website to new users, and the sender can reverse the payment if it doesn't get claimed. It's kinda like sending a Paypal-payment to any email address that doesn't use Paypal yet.

Alternative, if you insist on paying in Bitcoin, just give them a funded paper wallet, in person. But to be honest it's just annoying if someone wants to pay you in a format you're not familiar with. If someone wants to pay me in Skrill for example, I'll politely decline.
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October 20, 2017, 04:26:25 PM
#28
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".

I don't think it's possible it doesn't work as paypal. You only require to have bitcoin address of the person whom you're trying to send funds as others have said there are some service which send bitcoins to email address I would advice you to learn how bitcoin system works to avoid loss of your bitcoins as it's totally different from paypal good luck
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October 20, 2017, 06:48:33 AM
#27
as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,

 good luck...
Hi thanks for the info friend, is Xapo a trusted service?
I mean have you personally use it?I think they are based on hongkong and established in 2013.
I donot want to risk my bits to someone not trusted.
your feedback will help

i was using xapo service 1 year ago without any problems for little and fast transactions, now i am not using it, but i am sure they are trusted and you can use it, but anyway first check their service, if they are good for now

good luck...
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October 19, 2017, 04:39:53 AM
#26
as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,

 good luck...
Hi thanks for the info friend, is Xapo a trusted service?
I mean have you personally use it?I think they are based on hongkong and established in 2013.
I donot want to risk my bits to someone not trusted.
your feedback will help
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October 19, 2017, 04:37:38 AM
#25
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".

This is impossible.

You can send part of your wallet with bitcoin via email.

Create new email, add your wallet.dat to your message and send.
SENDING wallet.dat via email is NOT SAFETY and you can lost your all bitcoins..
don't make it please.

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October 19, 2017, 04:26:24 AM
#24
is not it better to send some BTC to the wallet?
I don't think that e-mail is safe
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October 18, 2017, 01:07:04 PM
#23
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".

What bitcoin wallet are you using? As i remember only xapo wallet and coinbase wallet has the ability to send bitcoin using an email address. If you are using another bitcoin wallet it is impossible to send it . Alternative way to use in sending bitcoin is you will scan the qr code of bitcoin address of the receiver.
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October 16, 2017, 09:06:53 PM
#22
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".


its impossible to send the coin to your email.
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October 16, 2017, 01:43:55 PM
#21
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".

Technically, you can't send bitcoin to an email address. Obviously how come and no possibility as there is no connection.

However, there are web exchanges that able you to used email address when sending so that it's way more less hassle. But remember that the transaction was meant only for clients under that same exchanges. Examples are Coinbase, XAPO , Coinbank (not sure). Also our local exchanger here have a feature like that.
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October 16, 2017, 01:33:44 PM
#20
As far as I know is that Blockchain supported to send Bitcoin to an email address or even to a phone number in the early days. With the second version of the Wallet, they removed this feature along with other great security features. Nowadays, only Coinbase supports to send Bitcoins to an e-mail address in case the e-mail belongs to an account there.
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October 16, 2017, 11:21:30 AM
#19
You need an exchange for that.

Like Coinbase
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October 16, 2017, 08:35:25 AM
#18
What you're asking is like saying you want to send an email to a post office box. You can't.

Send an email, ask for their Bitcoin address, send the Bitcoins there. That's how Bitcoin works.
We have a local app that provides this service and this app is coins.ph. You can use the app to send bitcoins by using your recepient's phone number, email address or even facebook account aside from sending directly to its bitcoin address AS LONG AS your recepient is also a coins.ph user and at the same time, those phone numbers, email address & facebook account are verified and connected to the user's coins.ph account. So we can say it's more on internal transactions. Maybe this is what ann2230 is looking.
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October 16, 2017, 08:25:49 AM
#17
I don't know if it gonna works, Bitcoin address is intended for bitcoin address only, Maybe another coming innovations in the near future that will answer all your queries.
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October 15, 2017, 06:28:23 PM
#16
It is important to note that if the email is not encrypted, sending the private key through email is not secure.
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October 15, 2017, 03:45:25 PM
#15
There is no way to send Bitcoins to an email address because addresses can't be chosen by you, they're generated by your Bitcoin wallet.

But a person could send the equivalent of an encrypted paper wallet to an email address. Including the scan codes.
Yes, exactly that. You could generate an address plus private key on bitaddress.org, send needed amount to this address and then send it (including private key) via email.
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October 15, 2017, 03:09:31 PM
#14
You could look at some of the invoicing software out there that supports bitcoin.
Pretty sure InvoiceNinja has an addon for this.

Then you just connect your wallet and send people an invoice to their email, then they send it through invoice ninja's platform and deposits it into your wallet.

There is some fee's associated with this I'm sure.
But worth looking into none the less.
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October 15, 2017, 02:07:32 PM
#13
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".

some bitcoin wallets supports sending bitcoins via emails like xapo. although most and majority of them are not. so i guess you should try to use xapo wallet if you prefered to use that kind of feauture. and maybe some skilled developers can do that or they can create a third party software just like how paypal works to enable bitcoin address to work as an email adrress.
But the Bitcoins would be stored in the Xapo account.
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October 15, 2017, 03:25:45 AM
#12
There must be a combination between both email address and bitcoin address so that you can send / recieve bitcoin using email. I think currently there is no such services .
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October 14, 2017, 03:47:12 AM
#11
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".

some bitcoin wallets supports sending bitcoins via emails like xapo. although most and majority of them are not. so i guess you should try to use xapo wallet if you prefered to use that kind of feauture. and maybe some skilled developers can do that or they can create a third party software just like how paypal works to enable bitcoin address to work as an email adrress.
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October 13, 2017, 10:18:41 PM
#10
There is no way to send Bitcoins to an email address because addresses can't be chosen by you, they're generated by your Bitcoin wallet.

But a person could send the equivalent of an encrypted paper wallet to an email address. Including the scan codes.
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October 13, 2017, 05:55:22 PM
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There is no way to send Bitcoins to an email address because addresses can't be chosen by you, they're generated by your Bitcoin wallet.
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October 13, 2017, 05:13:33 PM
#8
What you're asking is like saying you want to send an email to a post office box. You can't.

Send an email, ask for their Bitcoin address, send the Bitcoins there. That's how Bitcoin works.
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October 13, 2017, 10:50:37 AM
#7
Bitcoin has nothing to do with email and of course you can't send coins to an email address. Bitcoin is fully decentralized and associating Bitcoin addresses with email addresses would require some form of centralization (which would create a security and privacy risk and completely defeat the purpose and all the benefits of Bitcoin technology in the first place).

So to answer your question, Bitcoin is not PayPal, they are completely on different sides of a spectrum. If you want to have such a feature, you will have to use some centralized service, like someone's website, and fully trust them with those bitcoin's.
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October 13, 2017, 09:12:28 AM
#6
as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,

 good luck...
Would that send to the address or to the xapo wallet?

i think both of you, sender and receiver must have xapo wallet and send bitcoins via xapo. i was using xapo several years ago, and from faucets i was receiving satoshis using email, not btc address.


I meant something else then. Thanks a lot for your help though.
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October 13, 2017, 09:09:01 AM
#5
as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,

 good luck...
Would that send to the address or to the xapo wallet?

i think both of you, sender and receiver must have xapo wallet and send bitcoins via xapo. i was using xapo several years ago, and from faucets i was receiving satoshis using email, not btc address.

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October 13, 2017, 09:02:44 AM
#4
as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,

 good luck...
Would that send to the address or to the xapo wallet?
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October 13, 2017, 09:00:25 AM
#3
as i know xapo had the service, where you were able to send bitcoins via email, but i am not sure 100%, you can check it,

 good luck...
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October 13, 2017, 08:57:42 AM
#2
I don't think that exists yet. Someone would have to create software that links an e-mailaddress with a bitcoin address, but under the hood it would still be a bitcoin address to bitcoin address transaction.

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October 13, 2017, 08:48:34 AM
#1
I want to send Bitcoin in the same way PayPal works, to an email address. How can I do it? I tried to and it says "invalid address".
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