[monadmancer]

Honest question. How is this possible? Isn't it as simple as copy and pasting the public address?

[ceejayoz]

Among other things, there's malware in the wild that rewrites public addresses when you paste them into the major exchange's "send coins" forms.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/new-bitcoin-malware-change...

[lorenzq]

Take ETH and ETC for example, they both have the same address format and accidentally sending from one chain to another results into your crypto being locked away forever.

[AlexCoventry]

You could ask this guy: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa8f889a066519ffb552a571d553b8...

Looks like he copy-pasted a corrupt version of the address. There are three transactions to this destination, from different exchanges.

[avenoir]

I've had an instance where the withdrawal to my wallet seemingly didn't even make it to a block on the chain. This happened on Coinbase and took over 2 weeks to resolve. With their non-existent support I pretty much considered that money lost until the whole thing finally got resolved. But I can definitely see somebody fat fingering the wallet address being one of the bigger reasons.

[chatmasta]

Well, you’ve also got to keep track of the private key...