Bitcoin Forum

hey guys, i'm fairly new to bitcoins and all that. i've been trying to mine for a while now, but with little success (well...none, really). anyways, i'm extremely strapped on cash, limiting my options as to how to obtain some coins, and so, i've fallen to groveling. yes, i realize that i am straight up begging for coins at this point, but as of now there's really nothing else i can do. to anyone that wants to call me useless/an asshole/etc., i'm sorry that it's come to this. to anyone with a kind heart and a few coins to spare, my address is: 1DeJ2KQDAwF1br2QGKpoUjW1yy66e21GuH

oh, and i forgot to mention, i'm in no way a greedy/picky beggar. any donations, no matter how small (not quite sure on what the smallest possible is), well help!

Did you try the faucet ?

yep, been checking back to it for days and it was down and now says it's outta funds waiting for some donations haha

http://free.witcoin.com/p/1197/Get-your-free-witcoins-here (http://free.witcoin.com/p/1197/Get-your-free-witcoins-here)

i came across witcoin before, but when i read up on it it seemed like i needed bitcoins to even post. i just tried to sign up to reply to that thread, but in the process the captcha keeps messing up and doesn't appear, so i got an error, reentered the captcha, and it just takes me to an "error - nothing to see here" page, not allowing me to register an account

http://blockexplorer.com/tx/5da8cf5ba4866b68f02c464b94cd1d87d11a1808dd8a0390997e439d205eb746

Have fun :)

i'd be happy to use the site, if i had any idea what i was looking at. what exactly is going on there?

He sent you .05 BTC.

oh wow, just goes to show you how little i really know about this stuff. thanks a lot man! :)

is there anything specific i have to do to redeem it?

hmmm so i added the address under scriptpubkey to my address book (in the bitcoin program i'm running), and it still says that it's unredeemed. i'm pretty much clueless here

If someone sends you bitcoins it should update to your client by itself without you needing to do anything.

that's what i thought, but it has yet to go through

i'm pretty sure i've done something wrong, cuz it never came through. so, to anyone else, try this address instead:
1DeJ2KQDAwF1br2QGKpoUjW1yy66e21GuH

Don't delete the wallet.dat, how many blocks has your client downloaded so far, it's shown in the status bar.

Will donate when I get some bitcoins. *cough*

i didn't, the first was a bitcoin program and the second address was an ewallet. the program has download 127880 blocks

When the block count reaches 128964 you'll see the donation if you got the address from your client since the transaction was recorded in that block

oh ok, i'm learning so much through this haha