Timeline for ethreum sent to my wrong adress im worried it wont be recovered
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| Dec 4, 2017 at 15:43 | comment | added | lungj | I'm sorry; what you heard can't be true. There's no way to know if an account is "owned" (i.e., someone has the private key for it) until a transaction originates from it. And if the Ethereum protocol were to allow rollbacks if no transactions originated from an account ever would be weird; that would pretty much require every cold wallet to send a transaction to prevent its funds from being cleared out. I would personally treat the e-mail telling you this with suspicion as it may be in order to elicit more information from you lest you ever use the account linked to that private key. | |
| Dec 4, 2017 at 1:37 | comment | added | tim | no I didn't share the private key address with them I simply explained when I sent my ether from coinbase to this account I thought it was myether wallet address but I accidently put in my private key address I explained to them and they said in 30 to 40 days if it wasn't owned by anyone else it would simply be sent back to coinbase is this not true ?I'm confused | |
| Dec 3, 2017 at 18:03 | history | answered | lungj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |