Re: Bitcoin 'successfully' transferred to an invalid bitcoin address

Quote from: turndealer on September 07, 2019, 07:24:27 AM

Quote from: fentanyl08 on September 07, 2019, 05:13:37 AM

I was trying to pay a Bitpay.com invoice and opened the invoice in Electrum-BTC desktop wallet. I don't know how, but somehow that transaction got sent to and invalid address bc1qcygs9dl4pqw6atc4yqudrzd76p3r9cp6xp2kny
The transaction should be returned if the address is not even a valid bitcoin address (it has non-supported characters right?) but it appears that the transaction is already confirmed Huh

Transaction id 1cdc45c6f92430d021f387af6564353cb90281da4ee8e1e9721387ad05874c45
Please help me out there

P.S
The wallet prompted me to install an update before sending the transaction and I'm pretty sure it was official electrum-btc website.

Addresses started with bc1 are segwit address, They are of bech32 type.

Thus they are valid address

Here it is on blockchain explorer

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qcygs9dl4pqw6atc4yqudrzd76p3r9cp6xp2kny
and Tx here
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/1cdc45c6f92430d021f387af6564353cb90281da4ee8e1e9721387ad05874c45

It can not be reversed.

Electrum does create bech32 address. You should investigate more or provide more details what you were trying to do !

Thanks

I was trying to pay a Bitpay invoice. I opened the invoice in Electrum app and tried to pay it. I contacted the Bitpay support with this address but they say it doesn't belong to them.