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I just made the huge mistake to sent BCH from Exodus to my BTC wallet in bitfinex. Can I by any chance get my BCH back?
Mistakenly sent BCH to BTC bitfinex wallet - can I get my BCH back?
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They will be recoverable, but only by the exchange the money was sent to.
Can you be more specific? I am pretty new in this crypto-world, so all help would be much appreciated! @eponymous – Karen Marie Steffensen – 2017-11-28T13:23:24.880
Bitfinex will need to assist you to recover your mis-directed transaction. – Anonymous – 2017-11-28T13:26:57.437
bitfinex expects that you send btc to address xy, because xy is a wallet of bitfinex. so bitfinex has the privatekey of xy. but you sent some bch to xy on the bch-blockchain. the private key of xy is the same on the bch- and on the btc-blockchain. so bitfinex can (if bitfinex is accommodating) send your bch back to you. (or bitfinex could deposit this bch-value to your bitfinex-bch-wallet.) they can definitively, but they must not. this depends probably on the effort of a bitfinex-employee – anion – 2017-11-28T16:13:21.040
@KarenMarieSteffensen, please don't use crypto to mean cryptocurrencies. crypto == cryptography, not cryptocurrencies – Daniel Serodio – 2017-12-01T20:37:35.933
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Its nearly impossible to recover. The BTC address you sent the BCH to is (very much possible) not even owned by anyone.
actually, you can use the private key from the BTC wallet to create a BCH wallet. Of course, this only works if you have the private key for the BTC wallet, which the OP clearly does have. – Max Vernon – 2017-11-28T17:15:27.113
@MaxVernon, it is my wallet but I do not know how to find my private key in Bitfinex? I have found it in Exodus, but that does not help me out does it? – Karen Marie Steffensen – 2017-11-28T19:23:19.033
No, you'd need the key for the bitfinex account. Contact bitfinex to see if they can help you. – Max Vernon – 2017-11-28T20:11:22.293
BCC? BCH and BCC mostly means Bitcoin Cash. Do you mean Bitconnect "BCC"? – MCCCS – 2017-11-28T13:08:15.410
Sorry.. That was stupid.. I have sent Bitcoin Cash from exodus to my Bitcoin wallet in Bitfinex.. @MCCCS – Karen Marie Steffensen – 2017-11-28T13:18:04.933
Possible duplicate of Bitcoin Cash accidentally sent to Bitcoin address. Can I get them back?
– Pieter Wuille – 2017-11-28T19:26:22.260@PieterWuille Probably. But I do not know how to find my private key in Bitfinex. And furthermore, if I find my private key in Bitfinex I will not know how to import it in Exodus? (Yes I am pretty new in this game) – Karen Marie Steffensen – 2017-11-28T19:34:39.847