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Title: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: kiwiasian on August 01, 2011, 11:40:23 PM Is this even possible?
In my wallet I saw a strange address under "Your Bitcoin address:" I keep all of my address organized, and I know I have never seen that particular one before. I looked through both my sending and receiving addresses and it was not present. More interestingly, I looked up the address in Bitcoin block explorer and it says the address does not exist in the network. Title: Re: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: Chick on August 01, 2011, 11:41:20 PM Is this even possible? In my wallet I saw a strange address under "Your Bitcoin address:" I keep all of my address organized, and I know I have never seen that particular one before. I looked through both my sending and receiving addresses and it was not present. More interestingly, I looked up the address in Bitcoin block explorer and it says the address does not exist in the network. Its a new address, the client creates a new one everytime there are no more 'clean' addresses. Title: Re: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: MrWizard on August 02, 2011, 12:14:10 AM Your wallet generates a new address every time you receive a payment.
Title: Re: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: silverchair on August 02, 2011, 05:41:20 AM I think it's my address, :)
Title: Re: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: kjj on August 02, 2011, 02:03:58 PM Your wallet generates a new address every time you receive a payment. Also, almost every time you send a payment. Title: Re: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: natman3400 on August 02, 2011, 02:06:23 PM By never existed in the network, it means it has never been used, therefore not in blockexplorer's record. Your client doesn't go around broadcasting "OHIA GAIS, THIS ISH MAH ADDRESS".
Title: Re: An address showed up in my wallet that is not mine Post by: Meni Rosenfeld on August 02, 2011, 02:44:43 PM Your wallet generates a new address every time you receive a payment. Only when you receive payment to the address currently selected which appears in the "your bitcoin address" box. |