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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

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

patio11 13y ago
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.