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14 questions linked to/from What happens if I mistype the address when making a payment?
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Address Public Private key verification [duplicate]
Apologies if this question has been asked before, but when a bitcoin client wishes to send funds to an address, does the bitcoin protocol force the client to verify that the address has a ...
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Bitcoin wrong address [duplicate]
What will happen if someone does not copy and paste the "To" address properly?
For example:
If my address is 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxA
and the person tries to send money to 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(note the ...
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Sent to wrong bitcoin address [duplicate]
Need help I sent my bitcoin cash at the atm to the wrong bitcoin HOW can I use this address to send to the address I want it the money on !!! NEED HELP NOW
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Bitcoins sent to wrong address [duplicate]
I've make a mistake: unfortunately I've write my Bitcoin(s) from The Ledger to a wrong unknown adress. Is there any way to recover this mistake ?
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Can a bitcoin transaction be reversed?
If I sent bitcoins to someone, but then want to cancel this transaction after it was already made (like a chargeback on a credit card), is this possible with Bitcoin?
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Is there an easy way to give people a Bitcoin address?
I see that Bitcoin addresses have built in checksums that helps prevent typos (ie. it is highly unlikely that you can mistype a Bitcoin address and have it still be valid). However, I still think the ...
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At what point is a new wallet known by the Bitcoin network?
I was just showing a deterministic wallet to a friend who asked "At what point is the wallet known to the network?" and I could only guess by saying that it is known only when a transaction is ...
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Is there a way I can reach the owner of the wallet address
I mistakenly sent some bitcoins to a wrong address. The mistake was from the wallet address I was given. An extra letter was added, making the address 35 digits. Is there a way I can reach the owner ...
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Sending bitcoins to an un-owned, well-formed wallet
This is a follow-up question to: What happens if I mistype the address when making a payment?.
Scenario:
You're trying to send bitcoins to an address.
You type in the wrong address, but the address (...
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What happens if I send a Bitcoin to an address no one owns?
Say I send 1.0 BTC to a Bitcoin address that is valid but has never been used yet.
Does that 1.0 BTC effectively disappear? Or will the transaction fail?
If the transaction succeeds, could someone ...
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Can a new wallet receive money that was sent to it before the wallet was created? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What would happen if two public keys had the same Base58 hash?
A follow up from What happens if I mistype the address when making a payment?
Suppose I accidentally (or ...
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Is it possible to reverse mistaken transactions? [duplicate]
I'm referring to the challenge Bill Gates raised as a shortcoming of Bitcoin. Could it ever be possible to reverse a bitcoin transaction mistakenly sent to the wrong address?
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Practical interpersonal address exchange
How can addresses be exchanged practically & efficiently between two users?
Visually copying & keying them is impractical & faulty.
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What is the behavior of the try catch statement in lines 1707-1729 in the ui.cpp in the release 0.1?
In the first public release, ui.cpp has this code on the lines in the subject:
void CSendingDialog::OnReply3(CDataStream& vRecv)
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int nRet;
try
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vRecv >> nRet;
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