Phantom dogecoin addresses

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Hey guys,

I just read a post on reddit from two months ago that got my attention. Two months ago would be Feb 2021. This is important as what I am about to show you has been going on for 5 years and has not gotten the attention it deserves. Until now.

The post from two months ago. It just shows how easily things can be misinterpreted if you don't fully read what the guy was saying and maybe he doesnt explain it that well.

In this post the user xXx_69Killer420_xXx asks how to retrieve the dogecoin sent from his wallet to another wallet foreign to him. This is the excerpt that was familiar to me:

'But after I put in my address it changed in the app and the dogecoin got sent somewhere else. I checked the address they got sent to and it still has them and doesn't have any other dogecoin and hasn't made any transactions. '

So the only way you could do it is if you copy an existing address that is not yours and paste it and send. And you would think it would have to be an address that he has used before

QUESTION #1: HOW DO WE SEE WHEN THAT ADDRESS WAS CREATED AND IS THERE AN IP ADDRESS THAT IS TIED TO IT? SOMETHING? Because the only thing that make sense is the address was created at send. The question is does the user have control over that address to access the coins.

The same thing also happened to another user here on Github back in 2018

https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/issues/1419

On Github Doge0901 spoke of a similar issue but he described it as not having the private key.

This was the excerpt that rang a bell with me

' After I made 2 transactions ( wallet was not entirely completed to sync ) 6 and 100000, wallet made other 2 transactions for no reason https://dogechain.info/address/DQeNuxSRGCHFLXGZG5nzo1RWBD9RnTW8cP transaction https://dogechain.info/tx/6f11ae8637c6b4232aee40e0a0f31d605c54c393ab53007fa744a97f8e2747b3 Amount I sent only 100000 6f11ae8637c6b4232aee40e0a0f31d605c54c393ab53007fa744a97f8e2747b3-001 How I got other amount-381,251.01927000 sent ? Please help me to retrieve it.

Here is his phantom address DF61X3Gn1H8zVeV2QoERgprKAivufsVkA4

You can see he has that one transaction in that address and it has not moved since 2018

Now we come to me. On June 27th 2016 I had the same thing happen. my doge was sent to an address that I did not put in the send to field.

This address DMLtAYk2mPFsH1MEET7BQtQFRSmV4XnA9v is not on my wallet list of receiving addresses. And just like the other two gentlemen, my doge has been sitting in that address untouched for nearly 5 years .

Can you reliably reproduce the issue? No I can't but there are two good untouched examples. 1. from 2018 and one from 2016

If so, please list the steps to reproduce below:

Expected behaviour

Tell us what should happen Expected behaviour is the dogecoin should not have sent at all. Or should not have sent to these phantom addresses/

Actual behaviour

Tell us what happens instead

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What version of Dogecoin Core are you using?

List the version number/commit ID, and if it is an official binary, self compiled or a distribution package such as PPA. 1.14

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Any extra information that might be useful in the debugging process.

This is normally the contents of a debug.log or config.log file. Raw text or a link to a pastebin type site are preferred. I think its important to see how and when the two phantom addresses in question were created

DF61X3Gn1H8zVeV2QoERgprKAivufsVkA4 - from the github user doge0901 in 2018

DMLtAYk2mPFsH1MEET7BQtQFRSmV4XnA9v - from me in 2016 (Tom Conley [email protected] / +12675285197 (whatsapp)

The 3rd address in 2021 was not posted by reddit user xXx_69Killer420_xXx, but sounds like the same issue. And before anyone discounts this as just an incorrect send, if my memory serves me correctly I didn't initiate the send it just happened and its seems like the other two gentlemen are saying the same thing. But lets not get caught up in that. The bottom line is even if we initiated the transaction, where would we have gotten the address from? I would have had to copy it from somewhere right? I would not luck into sending dogecoin to an accidental address. No one types these things and at the time I had done 4 transactions ever on dogecoin network, the two initial trades, the two sends to my wallet and then this 5 one the anomaly occurred.

I would think we are not the only 3 this has happened to. When it happens you think I guess I just lost my dogecoin but that should only be the case where there is user error. Here is a NETWORK ISSUE. This happened do to the network not the user i can guarantee it. I am sure anyone else it happened do miscommunicated it and was bashed and let it go or just bashed and let it go. But with a $46B marketcap this cannot happen. So let me know what can be done. Losing the dogecoin because of a user error i can accept but not for a network issue. Agree? Thanks!!