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This might be an extremely stupid question, but:
are you sure you did not generate this address yesterday and send that transaction?

Oh.. I didn't check this. In this case I have no idea what could be the reason...

But if it were an address collision... it would most definitely be a once-in-a-lifetime event.

ya.ya.yo!

Okay, I've verified that there is no copying mistake. I've verified multiple times and I'm going to try importing that address into another system using electrum.


I did not check that.

This is not strange at all.

blockexplorer is not up to date.  If you look at their main page, the last block that they have processed is block #358999.  This transaction was confirmed in block #363102.

Actually about 3 months ago I used vanitygen to generate an address 1LaudaexFYZano87acDNGscmqDbM3ZTLBD which I've used to sign a message for this account. So this is a pretty new wallet (time wise), and I've been using it pretty much every day.
Nobody is using the same wallet.dat, nor has anybody access to my computer or the files. Besides the wallet is encrypted.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit with the latest updates to date. Also for the record, I was able to extract the private key from that address (my balance did not increase even though the address has 0.179 BTC).

This is very strange. So basically we have 2 explorers that are showing the address with a balance and 1 that shows it without.

It exists in blockr.io though.
http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/13EQZzdrBdHciQSg8bGfNr2YnTV9H1Bjmy

An address collision would be extremely unlikely...

The most reasonable assumption would be a bug on blockchain.info. This assumption is confirmed by using blockexplorer: https://blockexplorer.com/address/13EQZzdrBdHciQSg8bGfNr2YnTV9H1Bjmy

ya.ya.yo!

This seems very unlikely, however, there are a few scenarios where you could create a situation that would have this result.

Some questions:

Is this a brand new Bitcoin Core wallet that you just installed, or did you recover this wallet.dat from somewhere?  If you had recovered this wallet.dat from somewhere, then this address might have been used from the same wallet.dat AFTER the backup was created.  As such, when the backup was recovered, it is possible that the transaction was forgotten about.

Are you (or anyone else) using the same wallet.dat in multiple Bitcoin Core wallets?  If you created a copy of this wallet.dat and ran a second instance of the Bitcoin Core wallet on some other computer (or some other session on the same computer), then the other instance of the wallet may have pulled this address from its pool already, and now this instance is jsut getting around to pulling the same address from the address pool in the wallet.dat.

What operating system are you using, and what version of that operating system?  It is possible that the random number generator of the operating system that you are using is faulty (or compromised) and that it is not generating actual random numbers.  As such, if someone else is using the same faulty (or compromised) operating system, then they could generate the same address.

Are you certain that you copied and pasted the correct address?  Perhaps the copy failed, and you pasted a previous address that was still in your computer's clipboard.  If the address actually received bitcoins yesterday, then they should be added to your balance now.  Did the balance on the wallet increase?

Can you run:


in the console of your Bitcoin Core wallet?  Does that address (and transaction ouput) show up there?

I've created a new address using the latest Bitcoin Core client. A few seconds after I generated it, I went to blockchain.info and pasted it there.
The address that I linked is the one that I have generated today (minutes ago).

you are saying that you created a bitcoin address from a wallet like electrum and then you find out that there are bitcoins on it?!

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