I've found what appears to be a nasty bug, and has made me potentially lose 65 BTC so far:
If you check
blockexplorer, you'll see that address has clearly received the coins. The 0.01 is from me as well. However, the 3.79 transaction is
not from me. What's going on here!? Furthermore, who owns that address and how the hell did my client get it and decide to use it for all my accounts?
Looks like the bug was a missing { which caused it to return the address of a blank pubkey (which is impossible to generate). Those coins are gone. Really sorry about this, just poor coding on my part. I posted a separate commit so that the fix is clearly visible.
If you want proof I didn't steal the coins, you can change rpc.cpp:381 (of the new version) to
vector vchBlankVector;
strAddress = PubKeyToAddress(vchBlankVector);
and you will notice that it always returns that address (an address derived from pubkey of length 0 which cannot exist).
Again, Im really sorry about all of this, Ill be sending Lachesis a couple coins, and if anyone else has a valid problem with this as well, Ill send you a couple, just pm me. It was just really poor syntax in my coding, I really need to stop coding after 2 am.
Don't send him your coins. You are not his insurance against software bugs. We are grateful that you help develop bitcoin and that must be enough for the guy who lost his coins.