Hello. Today, I accidentally made a deposit of $300 in USDC cryptocurrency via the BEP20 network instead of ERC20.
This is obviously my mistake, but I was surprised that the website rejected my request to credit the funds.
A similar situation happened to me on this website before (identical networks) and I received the funds without any problems. This time, they decided that due to my mistake, the deposit would not be credited and that was it. I am extremely disappointed with their attitude, especially considering that the deposit address for USDC BEP20 is the same as for USDT BEP20, which they support, or USDC ERC20, which I should have credited, so they certainly have the capability to do so.
Is it normal for the site not to push to post a BEP20 deposit instead of ERC20 even though they support this network in another stable coin? I would understand if it were, for example, SOL on the BEP20 network, but in this case it is really strange.
Yes absolutely the fault of the sender, because is clearly stated in the casino terms and conditions that deposits via wrong coin network is a lost for the depositor, but in few cases we see that gambler's get lucky that the deposits with wrong network or coin as far as the coin and address is the casino valid payment details their treat is as mistakes and credits the gambler accounts with the right amount.
I quote the above case as a precidence to what really string up in my thoughts, and this question goes to those technically exposed gamblers, where do the coins actually goes to in reality?
Are coin send with wrong network actually lost?
Do casino have a system that can retrieve the money?
There could be two possibility.
A. The casino has full control over receiving wallets. In this case, they would most likely provide the same receiving address for all supported coins i.e. you get the same address for USDT BEP20 and USDC ERC20. So there is no chance of mistake and you would be credited any supported coins sent to it.
B. The casino uses a third party to convert crypto into USD or something similar and they don't process the payment. In this case, you are likely getting temporary deposit address or different address for different coins.
There sure could be other options in between but these two are most likely. Almost all of casino I use are type A so there's no chance of mistakenly sending of supported coin to another network.
I don't see why the casino or exchange would provide different address for supported chains if they have control over the wallet.