I have collected over 1 btc from a dust attack in 2015 on a blockchain wallet that I no longer have access to, and I have received some couple of dollars here and there on my electrum wallet though I always return those back to the sender since I always think that these are from newbies that must have copied my address somewhere. Frankly I could have just kept those small amounts for myself but I am quite the paranoid person thinking that these transactions may be used against me when the time comes.
But is it almost impossible to send btc to the wrong address assuming you are off one letter or a bit off? Or is odds going to show that address is incorrect? Thus imagine the last letter or number you mean was f and typed e or it was 9 and typed e or 8... are the odds so low that... the address you wrote a letter off is incorrect? Also all btc and those addresses are the exact number of characters right?
Bitcoin addresses can be 26 - 35 characters in length, depending on the format that your address is in. For more information, read:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/AddressNow i heard a while back, if you send btc to a bch address or send bch to btc address, the coins are permanently lost. Is that still true today? I remember i heard back then in bittrex, if you do that, they could help you recover it but only if the amount you said was big like at least 5k usd. Do they still assist now?
I don't remember bittrex doing that kind of support stuff back then. Perhaps if the transaction is unconfirmed, but if not, most exchanges would just tell you that you did something wrong and that's not their problem anymore.
But if you were to send btc to bch address or vice versa... or to even bitcoin sv or bitcoin gold, what happens now?
Circumstances remain the same. If you sent bitcoin to a BCH address, coins are lost forever.
