Generated invalid address '1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh'

[shangri]

Bug report
Operating System: windows 7 unlimited x64
MultiBit Version: 0.5.15
I'm generated more new addresses a few weeks ago in multibit. Оne of the addresses is 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh, Today i see payment to this adress 0.0098 btc. I can see in my wallet 0.0098 btc, but i can't export private key. How did it happen that I have address with payments? What should I do?

[gary-rowe]

Are you saying that you clicked the New button and it randomly came up with the 1FYMZE... address? That is extraordinarily unlikely.

MultiBit will not generate an address without a corresponding private key. If you don't have the private key then you don't control the funds.

[shangri]

Yes I do export private key, just use functionally 2 December and deleted,
Im newbie user bitcoin. And I see only last transaction. Address was created 30 November. Maybe I can sent you wallet and you can answer how it happen....? Best regards. P.s. Im so sorry my bad English..
09.12.2013 18:21 ÐÏÌØÚÏ×ÁÔÅÌØ "Gary Rowe" notifications@github.com
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Are you saying that you clicked the New button and it randomly came up
with the 1FYMZE... address? That is extraordinarily unlikely.

MultiBit will not generate an address without a corresponding private key.
If you don't have the private key then you don't control the funds.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/403#issuecomment-30135135
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[gary-rowe]

Can you explain step by step what you did? What you are describing is very confusing.

[shangri]

I wrote to you on email

[gary-rowe]

For the public record, @shangri has encountered a situation where a non-viable Bitcoin address has been generated.
According to http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/204914/734.pdf (see page 11) the address 1FYMZEHnszCHKTBdFZ2DLrUuk3dGwYKQxh belongs to a private key of "00" which is not spendable in Bitcoin.

We are looking in to how this address could have been generated within MultiBit.

[gary-rowe]

I need to leave this open until we have a definitive answer as to why this occurred.

[gary-rowe]

Nothing in the code gives a clue as to why this address was generated so closing.

[peterwillcn]

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