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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: iconomer on January 02, 2018, 09:20:57 PM



Title: Balance went to 0
Post by: iconomer on January 02, 2018, 09:20:57 PM
hi. I received 5.14733 mBTC on 38AvZwC6btP47Gy5FAM5p27TbFn4xhtYnN and sent 1.71577 mBTC 1894speyWyb4BLHMxo2gFHnVCdN4U2sWwT, but for some reason electrum sent 3.71577 mBTC and balance went to 0, which doesn't make any sense. I also have 19 prepaid txs still. Any idea how that happened and if there's anything that could be done to get the lost btc back ?

I'm also attaching image of wallet and transactions https://imgur.com/qLpbM7H

Any help is appreciated!


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: Coin-Keeper on January 02, 2018, 09:35:34 PM
Do you recognize the address where the 2.0 were sent?  Its directly under the address where you sent the 1.71577.  Is there any chance that is a change address and its in your wallet only now the remaining funds are in a new address.  Sorry but the internet connection I am using today is slowwwwwwwww so everything takes forever.


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: iconomer on January 02, 2018, 09:52:55 PM
Thanks a lot for quick response. I have no idea where that wallet is coming from. I'm trying to research and see how that even got into tx, since I inserted only 1894speyWyb4BLHMxo2gFHnVCdN4U2sWwT - 1.71577.

I don't even have that anywhere around, so I couldn't accidentally come up with such address :)


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: BitMaxz on January 02, 2018, 10:20:10 PM
Thanks a lot for quick response. I have no idea where that wallet is coming from. I'm trying to research and see how that even got into tx, since I inserted only 1894speyWyb4BLHMxo2gFHnVCdN4U2sWwT - 1.71577.

I don't even have that anywhere around, so I couldn't accidentally come up with such address :)
Did you found the change addresses?
You can see the change addresses in address tab if you couldn't find the tab addresses you can click the wallet right side of the file top right of the electrum wallet and click address you will see all of your bitcoin address including change address your bitcoin should be there..
It should be like this the same as in image
https://bitzuma.com/images/posts/20140311/change.png


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: iconomer on January 02, 2018, 11:02:51 PM
I checked. nothing like that in there either

https://imgur.com/a/PzqIS

https://imgur.com/a/1iY2Y

so completely dark here.. even the number 2 is "magically" the number that made the entire wallet to drain (not more not less). Any thoughts ?





Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: iconomer on January 03, 2018, 06:05:23 PM
thanks for response. I do not remember that explanation, since I set it up some time ago and then didn't use it for long time.
" or did you skip reading that part also...." --what else did I skip? 


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: Abdussamad on January 03, 2018, 07:37:01 PM
thanks for response. I do not remember that explanation, since I set it up some time ago and then didn't use it for long time.
" or did you skip reading that part also...." --what else did I skip?  

The wallet seed should be written down on paper during the wallet setup process. It is never displayed again and if you don't write it down and lose your phone your coins are gone. So if that's what happened move your coins to a new standard wallet (https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-an-electrum-wallet/) ASAP because phones get lost or stolen all the time.


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: HCP on January 04, 2018, 04:19:20 AM
--what else did I skip?  
You might want to go and read all of this: https://api.trustedcoin.com/#/electrum-help

It explains all you need to know about Electrum 2FA wallets and how it works... also this: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/2fa.html


Title: Re: Balance went to 0
Post by: iconomer on January 04, 2018, 04:38:42 PM
All is clear! not new in crypto world, just did not see the fee/forgot for trusted coin :) thanks all for comments.