Another member here helped me get back my lost BTC

As the title says, a member here helped me recover lost Bitcoin from 2017.

No I wasn't hacked or anything, it was a simple stupid mistake I made. It was my very first crypto transaction ever and I was sending $1000 of Bitcoin from Coinbase to Bittrex so that I could buy Bitcoin Cash because it was going to "flip" Bitcoin. You can tell this hasn't aged well...

Anyway, since I was new and teaching myself, I accidentally sent Bitcoin to a Bitcoin Cash Address... Needless to say, it never showed up. I was frantic trying to figure out what happened and where it went. Coinbase refused to help recover funds of anything under 10K and at that time Bittrex customer service never got back to me.

I thought thought those funds were gone forever. I have always hated myself for doing that and it has been eating at me all these years. Few months ago, I use here posted a title like, what is your biggest crypto fail so naturally, I commented a TLDR of that story.

u/Liarus_ commented back and said that at that time, BTC and BCH had the same addresses so cross chain recovery should not be too difficult. I then reached out again to Bittrex to see if they could recover and they indeed said that they could!

Long story short, after paying a $1000 recover fee that Bittrex has, they were able to recover almost $4,000 worth of Bitcoin. That sits safely in my cold storage as of now and I couldn't be happier. It isn't so much the money, even though that is nice, it is the weight that's been lifted off my shoulders for doing that stupid mistake way back when.

So huge shout out to u/Liarus_ !!