Topic: What happens if coins are sent to an invalid address? (Read 894 times)
Post the transaction. Maybe someone will recognize or can otherwise determine who owns the address.
Invalid address, per definition, are invalid, so the transaction would not complete. Now, if you mistakenly send them to a valid address, then yes, they are lost and you'll make someone very happy indeed.
Hi all,
Someone has sent me an invalid address. Do the coins come back automagically?
Someone has sent me an invalid address. Do the coins come back automagically?
coins can't be sent to an invalid address from a client I think - you'll get a message the address in invalid.
If you get a wrong, but working address, then it's an other story..
thanks so much for the replies .. it turns out the client hadn't confirmed the transactions for over 24 hours - restarted the client and it confirmed
i'll have to try it now that my coins are worthless......
The QT client won't allow sending to an invalid address. Others probably won't either. Perhaps they concatenated the address when it was copy/pasted.
Are you serious??
i think they are gone forever. but it helps deflation of BTC.
Hi all,
Someone has sent me an invalid address. Do the coins come back automagically?
Someone has sent me an invalid address. Do the coins come back automagically?
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