bitcoin: invalid transaction decoding

using: bitcoin-tx -json 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 gives an error: invalid transaction encoding

Decode the transaction into a JSON block

error: invalid transaction encoding

All the time under a debug build x86 or release build x86 or debug Release Build x64

Downloaded the entire source code on 30/11/2020 19:21:00 UTC from Github

Windows 10 Pro, Intel Cor I7-5500 CPU@2.40 GHz, 512 GB SSD PS same error on windows server 2019 48 cores, and various other windows systems

No, not GUI related

Compiled the source code using Visual Studio 2019 ver. 16.8.2 Compiles Successfully P.S. Downloaded pre compiled bitcoin-tx.exe File Version 0.20.1.0 31/07/2020 and tested it. It decodes the transaction successfully

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 1
Comments: 21 (9 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Merge #20595: Improve heuristic hex transaction decoding 0f949cde3dff15170db7930b0f7345ff995c267d Add regression test for incorrect decoding (Pieter Wuille) 39c42c442044aef611d03ee7053d2dd6df63deb7 I... — committed to syscoin/syscoin by laanwj 4 years ago

Most upvoted comments

@sipa my bad. The code i copied is the same you posted but apparently forgot to delete the error file from a previous cancelled run and though it was generated by your code 😃 I will run it now on the rest of the chain. Thanks

widdoh on Dec 8, 2020