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A $195+ mistake by not triple checking your btc destination address, and the amount being sent is an expensive lesson to be learned.
by skulquake 9y ago
A $195+ mistake by not triple checking your btc destination address, and the amount being sent is an expensive lesson to be learned.
- nullc 9y agoYou seem to have not read the article.
- craigc 9y agoYeah, he probably did not read it, but he does bring up a good point which is that this is only an issue because there are third parties involved. If you were sending a Bitcoin payment on your own and you by accident sent too much, there is nothing you can do about it. That money is gone for good. At least here it is nice that there is a chance to get it back.
- perennate 9y agoThat is true, and there is also the point that if I copied the address incorrectly instead of the amount, it would not be recoverable. (But this is more difficult since I can copy and paste the address; I'm actually not sure why the amount can't be copied to clipboard from Checkout.js.) Although, in this case, I was in some sense paying myself, so I would have been able to just do a reverse transaction (and eat the fees).