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<p>Initial page creation</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Introduction==<br /> <br /> Any received deposits which can not be determined as belonging to a specific [[nym]] are treated as unknown deposits and are credited a [[service account]].<br /> <br /> This error path is invoked in several situations:<br /> <br /> *The address receiving the unknown deposit is in the [[Keyset_(voting_pools)|deposit series]], and the service responsible for that address never generated a &lt;code&gt;[[PaymentRequest]]&lt;/code&gt; for it.<br /> *The address receiving the unknown deposit is a [[Keyset_(voting_pools)|change address]]. <br /> <br /> ==Procedure==<br /> <br /> ===Unknown deposit to deposit series===<br /> <br /> If the server had maliciously failed to broadcast the &lt;code&gt;PaymentRequest&lt;/code&gt;, then the nym will discover that fact when he asks the other transaction servers, and thus he will know in advance not to send the bitcoin for the &lt;code&gt;PaymentRequest&lt;/code&gt;.<br /> <br /> Therefore an unknown deposit must not be the result of a malicious server, but rather, the result of user error or malice. As a result, the funds are credited to the appropriate service account.<br /> <br /> When the responsible audit server receives notification of a deposit to an unknown address, it notifies its transaction server what has occurred via an [[Unknown Deposit]] notice, and the transaction server performs a &lt;code&gt;[[BalanceAdjustment]]&lt;/code&gt; to credit itself with the unknown deposit by updating its account balance file and the account balance file for the issuer account.<br /> <br /> ===Unknown deposit to change series===<br /> <br /> If the unknown deposit is sent to an address in the change series, then a transaction server is selected deterministicly based on the incoming [[txid|transaction id (txid)]].<br /> <br /> Calculate &lt;code&gt; txid mod n&lt;/code&gt;, and use that number to select a transaction server based on the transactions server's position in the [[Asset_contract_(voting_pools)|voting pool asset contract]]. The resulting server can add the deposit to their service account via a &lt;code&gt;[[BalanceAdjustment]]&lt;/code&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Type 1 events (voting pools)]]</div>

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