What is going on here? Is this a BUG?
There was a bug in the upstream leveldb that could rarely lead to what you're seeing and was fixed a while back. There hasn't been a new Windows msi released yet. You can build from source quite easily with Go on Windows if you want to build with the latest code.
There will be another msi release soon which includes that fix along with several other enhancements.
I just built on Windows XP x86 AND Windows 8.1 x64 .. BUT the bug is STILL HERE !?
Is it normal that my new .exe builds are smaller than the "original" ones?
they are just 12 MB (x86) and 15MB (x64) big!
original x64 = 18MB