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newb4now

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Quote from: achow101 on July 14, 2015, 07:49:39 PM

Unfortunately, you won't be able to recover your litecoin, and it seems that no one will due to the differences in the network. There is an open issue with Litecoin's developers on their github, and you can see it here: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues/179. However, those litecoin are now lost and unrecoverable.

Sorry for your loss. Sounds like a major bug to me. Hopefully it is addressed quickly so more people do not lose coins the same way

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Quote from: kfarnan on July 14, 2015, 07:38:49 PM

IT does happen, often*. It only works with ltc to btc. The coins are sitting on the ltc block, in a btc address with 10 confirmation. Unfortunately multisig addresses both start with a 3. Bitfinex uses multi-sig deposit addresses. This is needs to be changed by the devs. It is an issue with the ltc client. Tongue

What does the txid refer to?

*https://litecointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=o4dprt1jkfdousqhgo709imto2&topic=26513.15

When someone say post txid they mean show us the transaction ID
Like this : https://blockchain.info/tx/50662a36cdd1b448c264e12ddf0339273c691cd681af5d40b09f1e3f8c9f99df

Quickseller

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Quote from: kfarnan on July 14, 2015, 07:51:13 PM

This one was successful at bitfinex. it is possible.

https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=26230.0

I think your question is answered on the referenced thread on litecointalk.....you need to contact bitfinex and have them spend the funds....accoding to that thread, the private keys will make the same ltc multisig address as it would make btc multisig address.

kfarnan

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This one was successful at bitfinex. it is possible.

https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=26230.0

achow101

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Unfortunately, you won't be able to recover your litecoin, and it seems that no one will due to the differences in the network. There is an open issue with Litecoin's developers on their github, and you can see it here: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin/issues/179. However, those litecoin are now lost and unrecoverable.

kfarnan

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IT does happen, often*. It only works with ltc to btc. The coins are sitting on the ltc block, in a btc address with 10 confirmation. Unfortunately multisig addresses both start with a 3. Bitfinex uses multi-sig deposit addresses. This is needs to be changed by the devs. It is an issue with the ltc client. Tongue

What does the txid refer to?

*https://litecointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=o4dprt1jkfdousqhgo709imto2&topic=26513.15

Moebius327

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You can not send litecoins to a bitcoin address.

Bitcoin and Litecoin use different prefix bytes; this is why most Bitcoin addresses start with 1, while most Litecoin addresses start with L.

Your wallet should detect the invalid address.

ahmedjamal1998

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I can't even understand how is this possible Huh

achow101

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That shouldn't be possible since Litecoin and Bitcoin use different bytes for identifying their addresses. If this indeed did happen, then you found a major bug in Litecoin and possibly Bitcoin.

There is no simple solution to this problem except to ask bitfinex to credit the transaction or return you the Litecoin if they can.

Quickseller

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I don't think this is actually possible, however why don't you post the txid of the transaction?

There is probably nothing that can be done as the address that you would have sent to would have a different private key then the address that you wanted to send to.

kfarnan

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Hi,

I sent litecoin to a btc address at bitfinex on accident. It was not rejected. I can see it sitting there on the ltc explorer. Is there a simple solution to this problem.

thanks

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