Hi community!
My father-in-law sent it twice to the wrong address (he missed one letter at the end of his wallet address). Is there a way to recover his crypto? Please help :( Should we contact Solana? What should we do?
Much appreciate any help.
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How much did he send?
Solana can’t help you.
The money is lost unless it was sent to an exchange and they can return it or if you know who u sent it to and they send it back to you.
Crypto transactions cannot be reversed in the way u might be thinking of.
I’m sorry to hear this OP.
Tell ur father in law to only copy paste addresses, always check they’re 100% accurate and take into account Solana addresses are case sensitive so even a letter being capitalized will change the outcome of the transaction.
Whitelisted addresses (like labeling an address so you always know it’s correct) is helpful in situations like this
Get him a cold wallet for the holidays
Tell him I said thanks for his contribution to diluting the supply. Hero we need but DON’T deserve.
So sorry for your loss.
As crypto users i’m sure the majority went through this dilemma, some lost pennies and some might have lost their life saving because of this.
Golden rules hen making a transaction using blockchain (Solana or any other blockchain):
- ALWAYS copy / paste the receiving address, never write it letter by letter or number by number because you’ll end up making a mistake no matter how careful you were…
- ALWAYS send a small TESTING amount first to check the blockchain status working fine or not and if the receiving address is correct.
Once you’re done all that, you may send the whole amount later on.
Solana blockchain has the cheapest transaction fee, so i t won’t hurt do what i just told you when ending a transaction in Solana blockchain.
I wouldn’t recommend copying and pasting as there are viruses that notice when a wallet address is copied and change just a character or two in the middle to the pasted address.
Oh, so sorry for the loss. It is impossible to retrieve. One of the backdrops of decentralization.
One of the upsides to cryptocurrency on a permissionless blockchain is that no one can move funds from your wallet or stop you from moving funds from your wallet. One of the downsides is that no one can help you if you make a mistake and send tokens to the wrong address. There are many quintillions of possible addresses so the likelihood of someone actually having the private key to the one public address your father sent to are so extremely small that I can safely say those solana are lost forever.
Your SOL unfortunately.
you can try to contact the wallet customer support and they *might* be able to help
do it fast
What wallet was he using to send?
What coins? Just 1 Solana?
It’s gone forever.
Never type in an address manually. And always send a test transaction.
No bro. He should always do a test transaction in with 1 sol and then copy pasta.
Crypto ain’t complicated. We simply overcomplicate it…
Contact Solana customer service in India. They will help you.
If he writes a nice email to recover@solanadevteam, they’ll be able to roll back the blockchain in a day or two