Mistakenly pasting litecoin address to send bitcoin: Would the transaction even go through at all?

[Trush Jodie]

A mistake can happen when we are trying to send crypto. One of such mistakes is sending to a wrong wallet address.

If someone mistakenly inputs a litecoin address and the token he is sending is bitcoin, would the transaction even go through?

 

[Kross]

If it is a wallet account address from a modern crypto wallet, the transaction would fail because of mismatch of address format.

 

[Min George]

The transaction would bounce when it is an invalid address. There is a difference between invalid wallet address and wrong wallet address.

 

[eLdavis]

From what i have heard, am sure the transaction would fail, though am not certain about this since it has not happened to me.

 

[King Belieal]

I mistakenly copied a bitcoin cash address to paste and send bitcoin, an error message of "invalid address" was returned.

 

[Suba]

Some wallets will reject incorrectly copied addresses, so when you paste a Litecoin address to send Bitcoin, you'll see a warning that the address doesn't match. However, some wallets won't care if you paste the address; the transaction will be executed immediately, and your crypto will be lost.