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Re: Lost Savings Wallet Addresses?!
by
Sad Puppy
on 01/06/2011, 17:34:18 UTC
I can confirm, newly crated wallet shows as having only one key pair with dbdump.py.

I also had a problem where I lost a few bitcoins that were sent to a new address, when restoring the wallet from backup (the difference was the last transaction only).

Thanks for confirming.  This makes me very depressed.  Everything I had read made me believe that 100 pre-generated addresses were created for new wallets.

If I re-open the Bitcoin application with this wallet.dat, wait for it to show my 0.02 BTC transaction, then quit Bitcoin, I can use dbdump.py to see that it now has 100 addresses.  However, none of them are the addresses where I transferred all my savings.  I guess the pool of 100 addresses isn't created until a transaction is completed.  We should update the Wiki to clarify this.  I would edit the Wiki myself, but I'm busy contemplating jumping out a window in despair.