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Quote from: Lund94 on April 09, 2019, 03:31:19 AM

Hi guys

First of all - i haven't been sending anything to a wrong address, I Always Double check the addresses if not tripple check Grin

But!
I've been thinking about all those post about people sending their coins to a wrong address - isn't there a way to fix this?

What happens if you type in a wrong address and send it? - You probably just lost your coins. Someone might be lucky enough to have this address, otherwise your coins would be stuck in wallet controlled by no one.
Im not sure how the delegation of addresses works, but could i end up with a wallet with x amount of a coin in it just by creating new wallets?

Wallet addresses is a hexadecimal number, which cointains more possible addresses, than humans existing on the earth - Of course not 100% correct beacuse a coins address whould be same lenght +-
which will restrict the possible amount. Why? Because of safety? Or maybe the posibilty to scale the network?

is there any coins with some kind of function that checks if the recieving wallet address has ever been active? If not - Why? would it ruin any kind of privacy/anonymity?

When people say they sent bitcoin to a foreign address, in most cases, the wallet belongs to a hacker. I've personally had an experience when my ethereum left my wallet to a foreign number without my approval. On reviewing the wallet, I found out that many people have almost similar complaints. And the hacker, has consistently stolen from people when they are sending to other wallet.

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Quote from: kodtycoon on April 10, 2019, 12:29:56 PM

sending to the wrong address is purely a user error, usually due to lack of sleep or being exposed to a malware virus that our friend has explained. If you not want to be wrong always check the start and end of a recipient address, you will not experience sending problems In addition you must use anti virus to overcome malware problems

if this happens, then it is necessary to forget those Coins that have been transferred to another address. I know only one case of refund to the owner and this happened after the update of St. Petersburg. But these are very large companies with a large amount of funds.

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The blockchain has supported us too much and the copy address is a very easy step. We need to get used to it and be careful in trading.
We can't ask for anything more when we can move from one country to another with only $ 0.3.

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sending to the wrong address is purely a user error, usually due to lack of sleep or being exposed to a malware virus that our friend has explained. If you not want to be wrong always check the start and end of a recipient address, you will not experience sending problems In addition you must use anti virus to overcome malware problems

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I believe every wallet and site holding coins always has this copy space and possibly all phones and computers are also able to copy so why do you think of typing the address.
What am always worried about is, that there should rejection of the transaction if possible there is excess digit or incomplete wallet address, it's fine that way i guess.

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These are pretty basic questions. If you are sending the coins to someone else's wallet by mistake, then there is no way to recover them. Because unlike Paypal, the transactions involving Bitcoin are irreversible. At the most, you can contact the owner of the other wallet (by a signed message) and explain them what happened. If you are lucky, then they may transfer the coins back to you.

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Quote from: Ains_sama on April 10, 2019, 10:44:12 AM

I have experienced something like that with the mistake that I sent a coin to my wallet that was not my goal, and that was the luck of the person who got my coin, and I don't think it will be able to return.

The same thing has been experienced by my token that has been sent to someone else's address, it will not be possible to return to it only to explain and will not be repeated again.

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If you are sending your bitcoin or altcoin assets but you use wrong wallet you have forget it because impossible could take back your bitcoin or your altcoin, its not other digital e currency could cancel back your fund.

Rogkim1

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Yes, because there are no empty addresses. A wallet can be created at any address. Therefore, if you sent your money to the wrong place, they came to the wallet to another person and you lost it forever.

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There are many cases of sending because the computer is infected with malware and changes itself so it is difficult to avoid starting. If you rush without checking carefully, it will be the same, so be careful when doing everything.

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Today another hack.. Electrum wallet was attacked and millions were stolen.. once again, time to take this in mind!
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Quote from: Thomas-s on April 10, 2019, 08:51:17 AM

Quote from: Peruvyn on April 10, 2019, 08:31:19 AM

I think there is a way to fix it but it will all depend on which address and platformsm you sent it too. In 2017,I rushed to withdraw digibyte from Poloniex to my Coinomi wallet and instead of copying digibyte address, I copied the address of digitalcoin. I contact Coinomi and they told me what to do to recover it back which I did and I get the coin back.

you are lucky that you were able to return your funds. Typically, the blockchain does not forgive such errors. After all, the essence of the blockchain is that the transaction cannot be returned if it is gone

I guess coinomi was giving him back his amount that has already taken from the coinomi's fund. Or if digital coin use the same blockchain as digibyte and it can be recovered easily. Basically, that depends on the platform itself.

Ains_sama

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I have experienced something like that with the mistake that I sent a coin to my wallet that was not my goal, and that was the luck of the person who got my coin, and I don't think it will be able to return.

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I did not see any way to recover the fund if already send to another/wrong address. I have seen many people to post in this forum about the issue. But all people said the amount is totally lost and there is no way to recover it.

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Quote from: Lund94 on April 09, 2019, 03:31:19 AM

Hi guys

First of all - i haven't been sending anything to a wrong address, I Always Double check the addresses if not tripple check Grin

But!
I've been thinking about all those post about people sending their coins to a wrong address - isn't there a way to fix this?

What happens if you type in a wrong address and send it? - You probably just lost your coins. Someone might be lucky enough to have this address, otherwise your coins would be stuck in wallet controlled by no one.
Im not sure how the delegation of addresses works, but could i end up with a wallet with x amount of a coin in it just by creating new wallets?

Wallet addresses is a hexadecimal number, which cointains more possible addresses, than humans existing on the earth - Of course not 100% correct beacuse a coins address whould be same lenght +-
which will restrict the possible amount. Why? Because of safety? Or maybe the posibilty to scale the network?

is there any coins with some kind of function that checks if the recieving wallet address has ever been active? If not - Why? would it ruin any kind of privacy/anonymity?

I am thinking about this also, but I can see as hashcodes and hexadecimal number works, there is a definite and absolute address that can be created. In that case, if a user is just new to the wallet that he creates, there is a possibility that it has already a balance from a miss transaction that has occurred before. I am just wondering if, the wallet address'es length is fixed, what will happen if you send an amount to a wallet address that has a different length for ex. you've deleted a character on it?

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Quote from: Lund94 on April 09, 2019, 03:31:19 AM

Hi guys

First of all - i haven't been sending anything to a wrong address, I Always Double check the addresses if not tripple check Grin

But!
I've been thinking about all those post about people sending their coins to a wrong address - isn't there a way to fix this?

What happens if you type in a wrong address and send it? - You probably just lost your coins. Someone might be lucky enough to have this address, otherwise your coins would be stuck in wallet controlled by no one.
Im not sure how the delegation of addresses works, but could i end up with a wallet with x amount of a coin in it just by creating new wallets?

Wallet addresses is a hexadecimal number, which cointains more possible addresses, than humans existing on the earth - Of course not 100% correct beacuse a coins address whould be same lenght +-
which will restrict the possible amount. Why? Because of safety? Or maybe the posibilty to scale the network?

is there any coins with some kind of function that checks if the recieving wallet address has ever been active? If not - Why? would it ruin any kind of privacy/anonymity?

This is irreversible mate. Once you send a coin into a wrong address it is still process on the blockchain. Sincr that how crypto works. If you usually noticed, some developers are burning some tokens and sending it to addresses that has same numerical digit but no possible account. Which means they send it to be loss forever. Since the transaction has been process, there is no way to stop it.

Actually if there is a way to retrieve a coin in the wrong address sent then, this is not a total decentralization since it can invalidate what was done and freedom is lost.

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While blockchain has many advantages, one of the disadvantages is that transactions are irreversible. So coins sent to the wrong address are guaranteed lost forever unless the recipient is kind enough to send them back.

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Quote from: Peruvyn on April 10, 2019, 08:31:19 AM

I think there is a way to fix it but it will all depend on which address and platformsm you sent it too. In 2017,I rushed to withdraw digibyte from Poloniex to my Coinomi wallet and instead of copying digibyte address, I copied the address of digitalcoin. I contact Coinomi and they told me what to do to recover it back which I did and I get the coin back.

you are lucky that you were able to return your funds. Typically, the blockchain does not forgive such errors. After all, the essence of the blockchain is that the transaction cannot be returned if it is gone

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You can check that address if it has a recent transaction through blockchain itself and that's the explorer. But there's no way to know if that address is active or will have some sort of label as 'active address' besides that.

Most transactions that went wrong were probably a victim of a copy paste malware that pastes the hackers bitcoin address whenever you copy your address as receiver.

Peruvyn

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I think there is a way to fix it but it will all depend on which address and platformsm you sent it too. In 2017,I rushed to withdraw digibyte from Poloniex to my Coinomi wallet and instead of copying digibyte address, I copied the address of digitalcoin. I contact Coinomi and they told me what to do to recover it back which I did and I get the coin back.

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