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Title: BTC disappeared from my wallet????
Post by: freebeer2go on March 12, 2013, 02:13:13 AM
I'm really new at Bitcoin, I just bought some BTCs and made a transfer a few minutes ago into my wallet, but now they seems to have all disappeared from my wallet?? and I receive this message at my client "chain fork, stop mining on version 0.8"?? and also my client isn't updating blocks.


Title: Re: BTC disappeared from my wallet????
Post by: Zooey on March 12, 2013, 02:33:33 AM

There is an emergency in the Bitcoin protocol right at this time.

http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2013/03/breaking-blockchain-has-forked.html


Stay calm, don't panic.


Title: Re: BTC disappeared from my wallet????
Post by: Stephen Gornick on March 12, 2013, 02:36:01 AM
I'm really new at Bitcoin, I just bought some BTCs and made a transfer a few minutes ago into my wallet, but now they seems to have all disappeared from my wallet?? and I receive this message at my client "chain fork, stop mining on version 0.8"?? and also my client isn't updating blocks.

Did it really disappear or just did it revert back to unconfirmed?


Title: Re: BTC disappeared from my wallet????
Post by: gamelife859 on March 12, 2013, 02:39:53 AM
I'm really new at Bitcoin, I just bought some BTCs and made a transfer a few minutes ago into my wallet, but now they seems to have all disappeared from my wallet?? and I receive this message at my client "chain fork, stop mining on version 0.8"?? and also my client isn't updating blocks.

Did it really disappear or just did it revert back to unconfirmed?


what I put in the wallet disappeared, also the transaction I can't find it anymore too.


Title: Re: BTC disappeared from my wallet????
Post by: John (John K.) on March 12, 2013, 02:48:40 AM
The original post lacked info for "regular users".  Here it is:

(1) If you are a "regular user" (not a miner), the best thing is to do nothing and wait a couple hours.  Upgrading, downgrading, whining, FUD, etc, will make no difference.
(2) If you are a "regular user", you don't need to upgrade downgrade or anything.  Just chill out
(3) Regardless of who you are, your transactions are not dead, your coins are not lost.  They will just temporarily be held up.  If you sent a transaction within the last few hours, it may take a few more hours before it's sorted out.
(4) If you insist on processing transactions right now it's probably best to wait 20+ confirmations.  It's just due diligence though ... an attacker would still need a tremendous amount of mining power, quick thinking, and a victim willing to part with a lot of BTC.
(5) By tomorrow this will be in the past and everything will appear to be normal again.  If you slept through this, you'd never know that anything happend (except for the price drop).

Let me reiterate, your coins are not at risk, your transactions are not lost.  It'll just take some time for the network to "iron itself out."  Everything will be okay.


Title: Re: BTC disappeared from my wallet????
Post by: Stephen Gornick on March 12, 2013, 08:34:29 AM
what I put in the wallet disappeared, also the transaction I can't find it anymore too.

Ok, if your v0.8 client is sync'd it should now show everything correctly.  Did the problem resolve itself?