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Re:Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended by waterlesscloud on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @02:59PM (#7219980)
I was looking into that, but got sidetracked and found this comment from the ref client's lead dev...

sendtoaddress didn't always return a transaction id. It was changed to do that to facilitate bookkeeping. Sort of ironic.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=807.0

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Re:Bitcoin withdrawal processing suspended by patio11 on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:01PM (#7220003)
To be fair, he made that addition before anyone, including probably Satoshi Nakamoto, knew that the Bitcoin "protocol" allowed transaction IDs to change at will for up to ~1 hour after them being sent.
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