Lost BTC via a piggy back transaction - page 2.

Sonny

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Quote from: Racer8 on February 13, 2014, 05:35:59 PM

Thanks for the reply. If it is a change address then my balance would not be zero? Also the other transaction was outgoing not incoming.

Say, if you have a piece of 10btc, and want to send 5btc to Amy.
The tx you created would be:
(1) Input = that 10btc
(2) Output 1 = 5btc to Amy
(3) Output 2 = 5btc to your change address

No worries, you wallet would calculate your balance correctly.
Different wallets have different ways to show the change addresses.

For example, if you are using bitcoin-qt, you will not be able to "see" your change address in your receive tab.

Racer8

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Thanks for the reply. If it is a change address then my balance would not be zero? Also the other transaction was outgoing not incoming.

Rannasha

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With 99.9% certainty:

The "other address" is the change-address, which is also in your wallet but hidden.

For more details, see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Change

Racer8

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My everyday wallet seems to have lost part of a BTC via a transaction I made. When I looked at the transaction details it had two send addresses- my intended address and amount and another address and amount unknown to me. I use an encrypted qt client on windows (please don't tell me not to use Windows - I already know it's not ideal). I'm guessing my password has not been compromised (I'll regenerate another offline anyway) but it looks like the client has been modified to include a piggyback transaction once the password has been entered. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

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