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Hello,

I did a receive transaction and it showed up under requests after I saved it then I closed the wallet and reopened it now the request has disappeared. It is also not showing up in the history section and I havent received the transaction. What has happened?

Can you post your bitcoin address where you sent/received bitcoin or let me know if you still have a copy of your TXID and post it here

so that we can see if the problem is from electrum or from the transaction.

If the problem is from Electrum the Server you're using might be under DDOS attack you must change the server to a working one to be able in Electrum to sync properly.

To actually "receive" bitcoins, you don't create a transaction and you don't need to use the "receive" tab in Electrum... All you do is give your Bitcoin Address to the sender, and they create a transaction that assigns coins to your address.

What you did was basically create an "invoice"... the "receive" tab in Electrum is only used if you want to make it easy for someone to send you coins (or you want to create a temporary record as a reminder to yourself that you're expecting payment to a specific address for a specific amount)... Basically, Electrum lets you create a "request" that will have your address and the amount you want and send it to another person. That other person can simply click "pay" or scan the QR code etc and their wallet should hopefully autofill all the fields.


Creating a "request" is simply a record on your local wallet, to assist you matching incoming payments to requests... like receipts and invoices. So, you won't see anything in your history section... until the sender actually broadcasts a transaction to the network.

As for why the request has been removed from the "requests" list on the "Receive" tab? Either, you've opened a different wallet file... or it's also possible that the request "expired" (they can be setup with an expiry time) and was removed from the wallet.


NOTE: not having the request showing does NOT affect the ability to receive coins... you do NOT need to create requests to receive coins.

@HCP people get even more confused by the addresses tab. They wonder why there are so many addresses. So that's why the addresses tab is hidden by default and the receive tab is there to hand out one address at a time. It serves a useful purpose although it could be improved.

@OP What version of electrum are you using? Do you see a balance in the bottom left? What color orb do you see in the bottom right? Either you need to update to 3.3.4, you're not synced with the network (red orb) or the sender hasn't sent you the money yet. BTW when you receive money or send money it shows up on the history tab.