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so i just checked my wallet today and i found this:

Status: 106 confirmations
Date: 6/27/2011 03:22
Source: Generated
Credit: (0.00102782 matures in 14 more blocks)
Net amount: 0.00
Generated coins must wait 120 blocks before they can be spent. When you generated this block, it was broadcast to the network to be added to the block chain. If it fails to get into the chain, it will change to "not accepted" and not be spendable. This may occasionally happen if another node generates a block within a few seconds of yours.

how the heck did this happen?

I'm going to venture a guess here, that another node generated a block within a few seconds of yours.

Actually I am interested if anybody can explain this one, it's new to me too.

i havent been generating with my wallet though...

Not necessarily an error. That looks like just a block that was generated and shared among multiple addresses. Have you been mining for a pool? Some pools work that way. I think Eligius is one of them. If you aren't mining, someone else could be mining with your address.

That's not an error, it just means you have to wait for 120 confirmations/blocks before you can spend those bitcoins. Like EricJ2190 said, this is what Eligius payouts look like.

oh. i mined eligus a LOONNG time ago. guess they paid out the last bits

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I also recieved that today, and also mined them a while back... interesting