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Wallet does not recognize its own change address #411
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This issue may persist on a wallet restored by mnemonic. This user had large gaps in their receive addresses and so I instructed them to manually regenerate addresses until the appropriate index had been reached and rescan again:
This user started on v2.0.2 when they encountered the bug, then upgraded to v2.1.3 after trying the restore. |
Closed by #415 |
There have been at least two separate reports of this bug, and I've heard that it may have happened to the Purse bcoin wallet at least once in the past. It's very difficult to diagnose or reproduce but what seems to happen is this:
change
path.Additional related behavior: the wallet does not know its own private key for the address:
Even though the wallet may provide the change address again
Workaround: Your coins are not lost, but so far the only way we have been able to recover a wallet in this state is to import the seed into a new wallet and rescan:
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