Ug! In a moment of utter stupidity I sent a bitcoin address to a client for a litecoin payment. Sure enough the transaction is stranded forever on the network.
Granted it’s 2.3 LTC, but that’s 2.3 LTC that are gone forever and ever. I can’t believe I made this kind of an error, but now that LTC is using segwit style addresses I guess this sort of collision can happen.
Ah well. Live and learn.
Then again it might be possible to get the LTC myself since I generated the transaction request.
Maybe not, but perhaps… But hey, this could be a learning opportunity!
Rescanblockchain
If you have the private key to the BTC address you can recover the “lost” LTC.
Yup, I’m beginning to see that. The trick is to re-encode it with litecoin’s derivation path. Not impossible, good learning experience.
If you need more help with this, let me know
Yep, got the litecoin back and into a proper wallet. If you control your private keys for a transaction then it’s simple. If you don’t control your private keys… well then you don’t have litecoin or bitcoin…
Thanks everyone! More a rookie mistake here, I just need to be more careful in the future.
That’s because Litecoin is a disreputable outfit like CL
Shouldn’t the client or any client for that matter forbid you to send to nonexistent addresses?