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September 07, 2012, 06:28:05 PM
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Here is a transaction with 21,000,000 bitcoins in it. How does that work? I saved a screen shot of the block explorer. It changed from this appearance within a few minutes. I'm sure the fee would make some lucky mining pool happy.  |
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paulie_w
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September 07, 2012, 06:30:30 PM |
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uh, good question
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Mushoz
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September 07, 2012, 06:31:49 PM |
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Estimated Confirmation time Unknown / Never Nodes and miners will reject this transaction. It's a non-confirmed transaction for a reason  Don't worry. |
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Yankee (BitInstant)
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September 07, 2012, 06:32:03 PM |
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someone created a bogus transaction
note that it has 0 confirmations
it will continue to have 0
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September 07, 2012, 06:32:15 PM |
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ummmm, WTF?
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der_meister
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September 07, 2012, 06:36:02 PM |
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Moving on is a simple thing,
what it leaves behind is hard...
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September 07, 2012, 06:37:22 PM |
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September 07, 2012, 06:38:01 PM |
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Maybe a bug in blockchain.info? Or Ben just changed something with blockchain.info (that would be quick work though).
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sgravina (OP)
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September 07, 2012, 06:38:11 PM |
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I thought it might change. I have a screen shot of the original. I'll post it when I get home from work. Maybe it's a bug in the Block explorer. |
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September 07, 2012, 06:38:17 PM |
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Must be a form of dev testing...it's going to gmaxwell's address, or so one would be led to believe  It could also be a really funny joke...Look where it came from... |
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gbl08ma
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September 07, 2012, 06:51:21 PM |
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Also look in the 1Dky thread. There's lots of discussion about this thing going on there.
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September 07, 2012, 06:52:19 PM |
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can someone explain in detail what happened, and how the network deals with this kind of fake tx
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September 07, 2012, 06:56:41 PM |
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now that I own all the bitcoin, things will be a little different around here.
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September 07, 2012, 06:59:24 PM |
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Also:  |
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Photon939
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September 07, 2012, 07:00:20 PM |
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If you modify the client or create your own, you can transmit transactions sending 535,424,234.35 BTC (or any other arbitrary number you want), however other nodes and miners will not relay or mine the transaction as it contains bogus data and will not properly pass the transaction verification code present in all the other nodes on the bitcoin network. You would need to get a more technical look into the bitcoin source code if you want to know exactly how this works.
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September 07, 2012, 07:06:41 PM |
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Does this mean Blockchain.info will present bogus transactions sent to it on its UI? Presumably the blockchain.info UI should never have seen this transaction since it shouldn't have made it through the front door. Perhaps the purpose of this transaction is to illustrate a blockchain.info bug?
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September 07, 2012, 07:23:42 PM |
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From the chatter in IRC, it sounds like Piuk already found and fixed the bug. I'm pretty sure he is running a modified client to feed his website's database and gmaxwell fed it directly to that node (because no other client would relay it).
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September 07, 2012, 07:32:43 PM |
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Does this mean Blockchain.info will present bogus transactions sent to it on its UI? Presumably the blockchain.info UI should never have seen this transaction since it shouldn't have made it through the front door. Perhaps the purpose of this transaction is to illustrate a blockchain.info bug?
It appears so. Notice how the inputs to the transaction were much, much smaller than the outputs; Bitcoin doesn't let you create coins out of thin air like this except in coinbase transactions, and those can't created more than 50 BTC. |
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September 07, 2012, 10:59:25 PM |
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Dont touch my Bitcoins!
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