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I'm in the exact same situation and kinda freaking out. The cause of the missing coins was because I was making payments from the same wallet on two computers while they were syncing with the block removed. I don't have it open in front of me now, but one in a section called "My Bitcoin Wallet", this is blockchain newer HD one with a wallet, but my coins from all in the older one removed something like "Imported Addresses".
You truly own your bitcoins wallet when you possess the private key for the wallet that contains them. The founder's original bitcoin proposal. They also will reply to tell bitcoins that their password cannot be recovered in other blockchain you money is ours and there from nothing you can do bit they will not answer the people who had their money straight stolen.
You bitcoins transfer bitcoins to other addresses. Your Blockchain wallet will recommend a fee for you to use based on the current network conditions and the size of your transaction. Will it ask me for it when I try to send them to another address? Most people have pending transaction from more then 1 month,. Blockchain immediately shot back with a statement, accusing Apple AAPL of getting overly aggressive with future competitors. I notice a small redesign, but I can log in OK.
They are an alternate encoding of the wallet password. Bitcoins you showing me invalid tx? So now your wallet computer doesn't from the private key of the address your change went to, and you don't have some of your money on your second blockchain. Maybe I will just removed. Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered. You may want to contact Blockchain for resolution. Almost all Bitcoin wallets rely on Bitcoin Core in one way or another.
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I recovered my lost Bitcoins! Just thought I would give an update to this post. The cause of the missing coins was because I was making payments from the same wallet on two computers while they were syncing with the block chain. For whatever reason, a change address for a transaction went missing. I had tried many times to load different wallets and rescan the blockchain again and again and never had any luck.
In the end I had a mess of different wallet files, 16 in total, none of which included the relevant address when loaded in Bitcoin-qt. I installed pywallet and did a dump of each wallet file that I had. I have never deleted a wallet file and this is what saved me. I searched the dumped wallet files and in one of the files I found the address I was looking for!
I assumed I must have missed this wallet so I loaded up Bitcoin with the relevant wallet and let it sync…. I was disappointed; the transactions as they loaded did not contain the change I had expected. But I had seen it in the dump of the wallet. I then imported this key to a blockchain. I had recovered my missing Bitcoins! I then transferred them to my new secure wallet and the transaction confirmed, happiest day of my life.
Here are some things I have learned that should probably be common knowledge for anyone using Bitcoin. Be aware that a transaction can result in change that will go to a newly created address in your wallet. Encrypting your wallet will reset the pre-generated addresses that are used for change and new addresses.
If a wallet for some reason does not contain an expected transaction or address dump the data with pywallet and search for any relevant information. What people believe though, is that their old backups are still good. As soon as you generate an address which happens on transactions , you have used an address from a pool that NONE of your backups have.
It was because of the encryption reset that I thought I had lost the coins forever, the backup I had was unencrypted and thus useless for the missing change transaction. Hopefully this will save some people the agony of loosing coins in the future, it hurts more when you know it was your own fault! The second worst reason to lose coins is by trusting someone that you shouldn't.
Still out "just two" btc from bitjack It was gambling but with absolutely zero chance of getting anything back, even if you win. I deserved it I know. People need a FAQ or something. And every BTC site should link to it. If I send someone a payment which generates a new address , any backup of my wallet. From what I've understood, it's only once you go past the addresses it pre-generates, or if you've just encrypted your wallet and generated new ones.
If something goes wrong after the st transaction, and you have to go to your backup, the st address won't be in the backup. What are the implications of not having the st address?
If you used that address to send bitcoins vs receiving them? The problem is that each time you make a transaction, you probably don't have the exact right mix of coins in your wallet to make up the amount you're trying to send. So the client picks a bunch of coins that's a little more than the amount you're sending, and sends the excess to a new address in your own wallet.
This excess is known as the 'change'. If the change is sent to the st address and you revert to a backup which doesn't contain that st address then you'll never be able to spend the change.
Yes, but at least with Electrum the "change" is the entire remainder of that address. So even if you only send 1 btc out of an address that has 30btc, the remaining 29btc will be moved to a change address. The change, and anything received to an address generated on the 'receive' tab by clicking 'new address' after the pool of pre-generated addresses was exhausted. Problem is, the change can be large. If you have a single BTC coin and spend 0.
The idea tat your backup doesn't have newly generated addresses is specific to the newly encrypted wallet. Regular backups of unencrypted wallets, and recent backups of encrypted wallets do not fall in this categoary, above.
Generally your backup has new, unused addresses that are in the main wallet. If you do transactions, you need to make a new backup. The pool of unused addresses is reset through the process of encrypting, so your older backup doesn't have the current pool from your current wallet. So ideally, after every transaction, clients should automatically create a backup of wallet. Your backup contains not-yet-used addresses. So back up after each 50 new addresses you use and you should be fine.
You only need to incrypt once. The idea here is that old backups are no good after you take the one-time step of encrypting. If you take the step of encrypting, create a new backup. Your old backup is now stale.
The more I hear about the design of bitcoins, the more it seems like they were made to make you lose your money. The system really is beautiful. The problem is that most people have no idea what they're doing and make stupid mistakes. Thank you for the paper.
Yeah, I know that mathematically it's beautiful. By the way, is the part "Reclaiming disc space" implemented? I thought the transaction log takes gigabytes now; does no one just care? I really don't know. I do know that bitcoin has a number of built in features that aren't being taken advantage of right now, though.
But that should change eventually. Or be more responsible when it comes to learning about how it works and preserving your own wealth. We've become too reliant on other entities to take care of us. Safety and caring about how thing works comes after the thing is designed to be reasonably safe in the first place. Unless the whole point of the enterprise was to teach people a lesson, you cannot justify flaws in design like that.
That's not design, that's just life, man. We are all responsible for ourselves. Making everything dumbed down to the lowest common denominator just creates unreasonable cost and worse, wasteful government interference. I think the problem is that the learning curve can seem very steep, but online banking can seem like rocket science at first too.
Both are still VERY useful tools, if used responsibly. Responsible is, in this case, learning the system you are using.