As you've probably heard, many users have sent Bitcoins to the FBI's SilkRoad seized coins address
1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX.
I'm currently working on implementing comment-sending in my project through the API - but it's not working.
According to API Docs I can do:
sendfrom fromaccount tobitcoinaddress amount minconf=1 comment comment-to
I've tried this a few times and it doesn't work.
According to Gavin:
comment and comment-to are both just stored as text with the transaction. The intent is that comment be used to store what the transaction is for, and comment-to be used to store the name of the person or organization to which you're sending the transaction.
Neither are stored anywhere besides your wallet (they're not sent with transactions), and neither are encrypted in any way.
So, how were the comments sent to the FBI's SilkRoad address?