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Electrum shows wrong tx number and balance for addresses with too large history #8067

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Hjalmar3 opened this issue Nov 15, 2022 · 1 comment
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I use Electrum 4.3.2 in Windows 10 and imported the address bc1q4c8n5t00jmj8temxdgcc3t32nkg2wjwz24lywv
Electrum wrongly shows 0 transactions and 0 balance for this address. The reason is that the address has too much transactions and Electrum secretly fails to synchronize. At least, there should be an error message and the user should be warned that the shown values cannot be trusted.
See discussion on bitcointalk for more color: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5420852

@Hjalmar3 Hjalmar3 changed the title Electrum shows wrong tx number and balance for addresses with too large hisory Electrum shows wrong tx number and balance for addresses with too large history Nov 15, 2022
@SomberNight SomberNight added the topic-network 🕸 related to logic in network.py (etc) label Dec 6, 2022
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The "too large history" part is being tracked in #4315.
It is weird however that your client managed to find a server that did not error and also did not send the history. That server is basically lying by omission. The client can't easily protect against this.

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