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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Merits 4 from 2 users
Re: Where to start looking for a lost BTC transaction
by
LoyceV
on 29/05/2025, 05:35:48 UTC
⭐ Merited by pooya87 (3) ,ABCbits (1)
I opened a BCH wallet on BitPay, but I sent BTC, not BCH. So, nothing showed up in that BitPay wallet.
BCH has been tricking people into believing it's real Bitcoin for years after it's creation, but they changed the address format years ago. So by default, I'd expect BCH addresses to be incompatible with Bitcoin now.
I haven't tried "BitPay wallet", and it is possible they use legacy addresses. Either way, if it's a self-custody wallet, you should be able to extract the keys or recover them from your seed phrase using iancoleman.io/bip39. You should NOT enter your seed phrase in any website, run this offline and wipe the computer afterwards (if there are still funds in your wallet) before using it online again.