spesmilo / spesmilo/electrum

Unmatured coins seemed to be marked as spendable

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Description

Electrum 3.3.8

I picked Poolin, one of the top mining pools, to create a watch-only wallet for its coinbase payout address:

1MUz4VMYui5qY1mxUiG8BQ1Luv6tqkvaiL

It seemed that Electrum marked unmatured coinbase payouts as spendable - a green check icon was shown in the history tab, and the coins tab didn't hide them either.

The status bar at the bottom showed correct balance, though.

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Research direction

Reproduce the report in Electrum 3.3.8 with a watch-only wallet for the Poolin coinbase payout address and an unmatured payout. Inspect the history and coins views alongside the status-bar balance; done means immature coinbase outputs are not presented as spendable while the confirmed balance remains correct.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
blockchain
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
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Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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