Seriously unlucky because the way the adresses are generated, means that a random error being valid is VERY, VERY, VERY unlikely.
Even if you mashup 2 adresses at a random point, this is unlikely. You have a ungodly amount of bad luck...
Topic: Sent some btc into a black hole - page 2. (Read 3002 times)
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Seriously unlucky if true.
Please share the correct and incorrect address.
Correct: 1AYSPTVt8WytG12Kz9guUpXjwAMFZG9CJh
Incorrect: 1AYSPTVt8WytG12Kz9guUpXjeAMFb7AX2K
After looking thorougly at both addresses, looks like I accidentally took the end of one address in my addressbook, and used it in the end of the incorrect address. Silly me.
wow, that was way off.
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Seriously unlucky if true.
Please share the correct and incorrect address.
Correct: 1AYSPTVt8WytG12Kz9guUpXjwAMFZG9CJh
Incorrect: 1AYSPTVt8WytG12Kz9guUpXjeAMFb7AX2K
After looking thorougly at both addresses, looks like I accidentally took the end of one address in my addressbook, and used it in the end of the incorrect address. Silly me.
omg 0.25BTC... you'll be kicking yourself in 2 years 
in the beginning, people did lost of stupid mistakes like that... but with 100's of coins.
i hope in the future they will Re-mine the coins lost in the black hole
in the beginning, people did lost of stupid mistakes like that... but with 100's of coins.
i hope in the future they will Re-mine the coins lost in the black hole
Well, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. I was trying to send some btc to a newly generated address so that I could memorize the private key, and then have my BTC in my brain. My clients copy paste function wasn't working correctly, so I decided to type the address in manually. I was lazy, so I didn't double check the address. at least it was only .25 BTC. Just thought I'd share my story with you guys. Moral: If you ever manually type an address, double check it.
Moral: If you ever manually type an address, double check it.Seriously unlucky if true.
Please share the correct and incorrect address.
I would say you were lucky, getting an address just right takes talent.
Well, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. I was trying to send some btc to a newly generated address so that I could memorize the private key, and then have my BTC in my brain. My clients copy paste function wasn't working correctly, so I decided to type the address in manually. I was lazy, so I didn't double check the address. at least it was only .25 BTC. Just thought I'd share my story with you guys. Moral: If you ever manually type an address, double check it.
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