Does anyone know what this is? That is not my wallet address (all of my wallets have labels like the one that says wallet3) but it appears in my history like a block I mined. I have seen a few of these, each with a different address, some of them happened when I was forked so they disappeared after I resynced but this one made it into the main chain.
txid: 4db08faabc35c2c94f8c45b5ef2afc35c71e060d83dbfcc32e2e42fe44d64679
go to console and hit
listaddressgroupingsthis will tell you all the addresses currently into your wallet and their balance
it may be one of your addresses that receive change
I do see it listed there along with a number of others that I do not recognize. If these are all mine where did they come from and why are they not listed under the receive tab where the addresses I generated are listed?
qt wallets generate an address automatically each time you send coins to someone, in order to receive change
a different address is used each time... then this address participates to your total availiable balance
the wallet never tells you which address is used to send/receive coins and when
so, if you see them using
listaddressgroupings, these addresses are all yours and belong to this wallet
if you have a private key for your main address and attempt to import it to another wallet, you will
NOT get your whole balance in the new wallet, only what is left to this address.... you would need all the private keys to all addresses generated by your wallet
It is a bit complicated but that is how all Bitcoin (qt) clients work to protect your privacy
edit: and yes, coins can be lost if you don't know how change addresses work and have the illusion you are using only one address (or two, or three, as many as
you generated). In fact, a new address is generated
each time you send coins to another address and can be used
independently. This is the normal behavior of QT clients.