Quote from: redsn0w on April 25, 2015, 07:33:42 PM

Quote from: sdmathis on April 25, 2015, 07:29:39 PM

Once when I first started getting into crypto, I accidentally sent sone altcoins to the wrong address and of course, that was that. The coins were gone.

That made me wonder if the following scenario is possible: Could someone create a brand new Bitcoin address and find Bitcoin sitting in his wallet if someone accidentally sent coins to that address a year or so ago? Or will coins only show up if someone sends them to the wrong address and that address already exists.

I was just curious.

Hmmm it will be extremely difficult (to find an address with some deposited bitcoins) or maybe I don't understand your 'question'.

I think you do understand the question.

I'm curious about this too. I think it actually is possible that you become an address which were coins sent to earlier (by accidence). I don't think you can only send coins to addresses that do already exist.

However, I think this is only theoretically possible in that case.