Need Help Lost Bitcoins in a transaction to Bitcoin Cash

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I sent some bitcoins from gdax to a bitcoin cash address on cryptopia by mistake. Coinbase shows a debit on my account and the bitcoin cash address didn't receive any bitcoins because it shouldn't have been a valid address. I've submitted tickets with both coinbase and cryptopia. They haven't responded yet. Is there anything anyone knows on how I can do to fix it?
 
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Damn!! The worst part about the whole bitcoin stuff is that errors and hacks are hard to fix.

Was it a lot?

Nevertheless, best of luck.
 
For me it is a lot. I think gdax glitched and crashed right when they started bitcoin cash yesterday. I think it never went to any address and coinbase just debited my account.
 
You should be able to see the transaction ID from Gdax . You can trace it here --> https://blockexplorer.com

You will be able to see the recipient address too: check if is the one of you Cryptopia BTC address . If it is, just wait and should arrive after 2 confirmations.

Usually take about 30 min - 1hour but these days can take several ( 8 + ) due to exchange overload.
 
This is the only thing I truly hate about crypto world.

This should not be allowed to happen to just have your coins disappear from a wrong address. All this tech and they can't build a better foolproof system for sending coins from one address to another? Seems utter ridiculous.

Good luck to you. I hope you get yours coins back quickly!
 
Happened to me few days ago, but I sent ETH to XBL address. On etherscan I can see that there is XBL and ETH on the same address so they should be able to recover it. I contacted Cryptopia but no respond yet. They say wait time is around 5 days
 
F4lken said:
You should be able to see the transaction ID from Gdax . You can trace it here --> https://blockexplorer.com

You will be able to see the recipient address too: check if is the one of you Cryptopia BTC address . If it is, just wait and should arrive after 2 confirmations.

Usually take about 30 min - 1hour but these days can take several ( 8 + ) due to exchange overload.
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I've traced it and it says, Recieved x.xxxxxxxx BTC Sent 0 BTC Balance x.xxxxxxxx BTC . I've checked other transaction and it shows the amount of bitcoin sent every time except for this transaction. I've checked the Cryptopia and it is a different address on Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin. It's been more than 24 hours and my account still has a debit from Coinbase and nothing in Cryptopia.

Twofaced said:
Happened to me few days ago, but I sent ETH to XBL address. On etherscan I can see that there is XBL and ETH on the same address so they should be able to recover it. I contacted Cryptopia but no respond yet. They say wait time is around 5 days
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Sorry that you are in the same situation. I've contacted Cryptopia's support more than a week ago about something else and they didn't even respond so I deleted the ticket because I no longer needed it. So I submitted a new ticket for this issue in Cryptopia and I'm still waiting. I've contacted Coinbase and they haven't responded also.
 
How can you make this stupid mistake? i am sorry i am coming off rude but if people can make these type of mistakes, they should not at all trade in cryptos.
 
Mr Spectre said:
How can you make this stupid mistake? i am sorry i am coming off rude but if people can make these type of mistakes, they should not at all trade in cryptos.
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You are being rude. It was a human error and the Coinbase website was glitching so I got a bit frustrated and didn't pay attention. I'm not a computer. My intentions was to get bitocin cash and I copied the address by mistake. The error shouldn't have gone through in the first place. Bifinex has a deposit error situations as people and computers do make errors and there should be a recovery for it.
 
ttavid said:
I sent some bitcoins from gdax to a bitcoin cash address on cryptopia by mistake. Coinbase shows a debit on my account and the bitcoin cash address didn't receive any bitcoins because it shouldn't have been a valid address. I've submitted tickets with both coinbase and cryptopia. They haven't responded yet. Is there anything anyone knows on how I can do to fix it?
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They can recover it with the private keys if they are willing to or they can just deny you / never respond to your ticket or say its your fault.

It all depends on the exchange ( Cryptopia in your case ).

Refer to : https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q...bitcoin-btc-to-a-bitcoin-cash-bch-aka-bcc-add

As of what happens if someone send BTC from a BTC wallet to BCC wallet address, the transactions go through.

But you can only see that transaction in the Bitcoin Blockchain rather than Bitcoin cash blockchain.

I will simplify with an example.

Say there is an address named "abc" in BTC and another address named "def" in BCC.

abc has 1 BTC (Bitcoin Network)

def has 0 BCC (Bitcoin Cash Network)

If a person by mistake (or for fun) sends 1 BTC from abc to def. Then the balance changes as follows:

abc has 0 BTC (Bitcoin Network)

def has 1 BTC (Bitcoin Network) [Assuming there was no transaction fees]

def has 0 BCC (Bitcoin Cash Network)

So, if the owner of def in BCC has the private key of that address, he can access the BTC in def as well.

But if he unfortunately does not hold the private key of that BCC address (like it can be of an exchange where you don't have access to the private key), then the BTC cannot be accessed by the owner of the BCC address.

Hope this answers your query well.
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Hope they`ll answer you and recover your funds.

Cheers
 
You made a big mistake mate.

lesson 1: never send all your tokens from one address to other without testing with a tiny amount to make sure it goes through;
lesson 2: never transfer different tokens between addresses; in your case you shouldn't have transfered BTC tokens straight to a BCC address.
Instead, you could swap BTC into BCC using an exchange.

I know you did it by mistake but I think it would be important to talk about this issue so that other people reading this thread don't make the same bad move.
 
Additionally, I would add, when you send coins from one place to another, eliminate all distractions.

Don't make a transfer if you're in a rush to get somewhere.
Don't make a transfer if you're expecting a phone call or someone to arrive.
  1. Make sure you're well rested.
  2. Turn off your phone and tv.
  3. Shut the door to your basement.
  4. Turn off music if you're rocking the tunes.
  5. Open two browser windows side-by-side.
  6. Always verify you're going from-to same wallet types.
  7. Always verify that long ass number is the same in both browsers.
  8. Transfer from left browser to right browser.

This is what I do every time. A bit paranoid about making this mistake as my funds have grown significantly. Let us know how it goes and the process you took to (hopefully) get your coins back. Good luck!
 
cmon man what a stupid mistake. im sorry for you man but next time triple check addresses before you transfer. I always tripple check, read the the address outloud to yourself while you hover with your eyes over it. We cant lose money for stupid mistakes like that.

Also try to contact support but i think the money is lost.
 
you probably sent it to some random persons wallet... this is a mistake but damn.. the only mistake you shouldn't do. Secure your bag.
 
OK, I get it. It was a dumb mistake. Thanks everyone for telling me I made a mistake. I already know that now in a bad way. It's definitely never going to happen to me again. But that being said the mistake is done now I want to correct it. I don't think the money is lost because it shouldn't have been sent if it's a wrong address because they pinged it. I think ether it was never sent from Gdax since the website was glitching or it's in Cryptopia's wallet.
 
Lol everyone so hard on OP even though he already lost something, sorry for your lost OP, want to add something, while never have same experience but from what i read on bittrex exchange they willing to do the job but they will ask some hefty fees around 0.1btc, so maybe cryptopia have similar too. do you check blockchain, is it success? if yes, then i believe its on cryptopia address. good luck for you OP
 
I'm willing to pay a fee if that is the case. But Cryptopia has not responded to me yet. I've checked btc.com and it looks very different than other transactions. It says 0 BTC sent but it also says the real amount received.
 
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