For the first time I made a transfer of Steem from Poloniex to my Steemit Wallet.
I went to my Wallet and clicked on Deposit.
Automatically without thinking I copied the above Address to send Bitcoins to.
Then I went to Poloniex to withdraw Steem from my Account. I copied the above address to the Address Line on Steemit.
WRONG!!!!! Arrrgh….
Because I want to transfer Steem and not Bitcoin to my Steemit Wallet the Steem I transferred got lost. The withdraw worked but the Steem was never deposited on my account. I will never see these steems again.
Therefore, follow this step by step guide on How to transfer Steem from Poloniex to your Steemit wallet
Update: Good News!
As suggested by @merej99 in comments I opened a ticket with the Poloniex support.
Yes, and I have my steem back!
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I essentially shredded 10.0 Steem Dollars. I keep banging my head about.I lost Steem yesterday with a stupid move. For some reason, I forgot how "Promote" works, and I sent @null money instead of using the promote button.
Sorry about your loss. I can relate.
Sorry to hear about your loss. I did not know that @null would not return the money or put it towards your post as promotion. Why not make a short post about it?
I just might. I have been wondering what to write about today.
Not the troll box @steempowerwhale
Go to https://poloniex.freshdesk.com/support/home and click New Support Ticket. Good luck.
Contact Poloniex with your information and the account you sent it to. Chances are they have it documented and can cancel it on their end, returning the funds back to you. Good luck!
Thank you merej99. I have left a message there in their trollbox.
That,s a terrible story and I sincerely hope that providence repays you soon. I think @merej99 could be correct. I am new to this game and so I am not sure. Great you share to the community so that others here see the real risk of transferring. Please let us know how you get on as this is an interesting situation!! Good luck really with this story, It goes very quickly in crypto eh ? one bad click.....
Won't they be returned when the transaction fails? I thought that when there wasn't an actual wallet to receive the transaction, that it would eventually be returned to the sending wallet.
This has happened with BTC and ETH, though a lot of platforms won't even accept the transaction unless the wallet address is in the right format/structure for that particular instrument.
Sorry for your loss, man. Thanks for sharing.
On their platforms it says to be careful not to mix addresses of the cryptocurrencies because of the risk of loss. let's if I ever see the Steem again or if it vaporized in the bitcoin universe.
Yeah, I've seen the disclaimer. I only messed up in sending once, with a small amount of BTC. It came back after a while, but I can't recall how long it took. Seems like it was hours, not days.
Hopefully you get it. Not a staggering loss, but all losses hurt, especially when you invest in so much potential.
Same thing here. Haven't transferred anything since.
Thank you for the cautionary tale. I'd promote this if I had the currency to do so. Crypto transactions can be very confusing the first time. Kinda like sex? At least you now know what goes where. ;)
ouch, thanks for sharing the experience so maybe no one else will have to....
My pleasure
So sorry to hear this I hope it wasn't very much
I lost 13 Steem but when I calculate the future interest of it because I use it to power up it can become a huge loss :-(