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		waterlesscloud on Feb 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended I was looking into that, but got sidetracked and found this comment from the ref client's lead dev... sendtoaddress didn't always return a transaction id. It was changed to do that to facilitate bookkeeping. Sort of ironic. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=807.0

patio11 on Feb 11, 2014 [–]

To be fair, he made that addition before anyone, including probably Satoshi Nakamoto, knew that the Bitcoin "protocol" allowed transaction IDs to change at will for up to ~1 hour after them being sent.

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