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by nisegami 1888 days ago
Wasn't GP talking more about valid but non-existent addressed? I'm guessing this is essentially the same as sending it to an address for which the key has been lost.
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Yes, but that's pretty uncommon in practice. Why would anyone ask you to send money to a valid address that they don't own? It can't be a transcription error because the checksum would catch that

It's like sending gold over snailmail to a random address

And what happens if one sends gold over snailmail to a random address? You need to finish your analogy.