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any reason why there is 0 nodes connected?
bit worried x.x
https://i.imgur.com/eY8HL8F.png

Also suggests no blocks found for the past 2 hrs...

Just had a look at some 1hr old transactions, 0 confirmations. Something isn't right.

can someone suggest some other wallet? :C
Want to move my money out , just in case something happens with blockchain

Download electrum.

Don't fear your Bitcoin in that wallet alone, the fact that transactions are not being confirmed at all is a sign of bigger problem. 2hr old transactions with 0 confirms.

Trying to search transactions on blockexplorer and getting no results but blocks appear to be found.

blockr.io (http://btc.blockr.io) or blocktrail.com (http://blocktrail.com) seems fine.

But transaction originated from blockchain.info is not being broadcasted now - for example tx hash 4c98a2b75e764e5a7ddbc47010853811bd53fb1be5086f31c5c62f6cb65c8409 is seachable on blockchain.info (https://blockchain.info/tx/4c98a2b75e764e5a7ddbc47010853811bd53fb1be5086f31c5c62f6cb65c8409) but not on blocktrail (https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/4c98a2b75e764e5a7ddbc47010853811bd53fb1be5086f31c5c62f6cb65c8409).

What could happen to our coins if blockchain going down? :c

Export private keys from bc.info and import it to the clients like bitcoin core or electrum.

You use the backup they send you via mail.


Bc.i is having connection problems (again). This is usually fixed fast.

what backup?
and what you can do with backup ?:c
Sorry dont know much about blockchain but dont want to lose my 13 btc -_-

Their site should have option to export your private key (=backup), and you should be able to use it on other clients.

electrum is 100% trusted?

I dont use it as wallet, but AFAIK they send your private keys to the mail address you have told them as backup. The files are encrypted with your wallet password to make sure no bored google (replace with your mail provider) admin steals your coins. As long as the site is up you can also directly export the private keys. Best format to export IMHO is WIF or bitcoin-qt format not sure how bc.i calls them as its supported by almost all clients.


Yes, but its not smart to import keys into electrum, because they will not be restored by the seed. Best would be to create an electrum wallet and send the btc there.

alright will do :C

Well, remember that if bc.info is not connected to the other nodes,(I'm phone right now) it won't be broadcasted until they are connected again, and you cannot use the coins until they are reconnected and confirmed via blocks.

Yes, not via bc.i directly. Its possible to export the private keys from bc.i (hp still up), import them into e.g. multibit, let multibit sync (should take a couple minutes) and send the btc to a fresh wallet e.g. electrum. The blockchain itself is fine, its just blockchain.info thats having problems.

I don't know, just downloaded backup, should i import this to multibit or not ?

Did they pull the plug on the bitcoinqt or something ?

IIRC, their backup is only good to import to bc.i at a later stage. You have to export the private keys manually.

You should still be able to send funds from your wallet.

I cant deceided if you trust bc.i or not.


AFAIK you can decrypt it manually. I dont know how they encrypt it though.


The last TX their block explorer knows about was 1 hour ago[1] if you search for the TX id on another block explorer e.g. blocktrail[2] you will notice they dont know about it. This will happen with a newly create TX by OP as well. Thus beeing able to create a TX is not helping as its not broadcasted.

[1] https://blockchain.info/tx/2b3ffabb9b067dcd5dfc429397e6d4a8d0dc90afa7963e7040470b0a3c656a3c
[2] https://www.blocktrail.com/

Just use this since you can still generate TXs through blockchain.info:

Please use this to push your TX through to the network: https://btc.blockr.io/tx/push

Find your TX in hex format by adding "?format=hex" to the end of the blockchain.info TX url.

Then paste that number into: https://btc.blockr.io/tx/push and click 'push immediately'!

I think I have the same problem.
I made a transaction and it dosent shows at blockchain but it shows at blocktrail.
Why?

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/a41ec74e0c0ab98cc90928387f54943a6867d207a83390dc45ddc59ab81d252b

www.blockchain.info/es/address/1Ch8fHiCYw3wAeonSWfRSDrYb5WrcfbsEt


Thanks!

https://coinnector.com/ is another good wallet to store your bitcoins with more good services!! GOOD LUCK !!

It isn't a wallet? Says: "Simple cryptocurrency exchanger"

There is nothing you can do in this case. The TX is confirmed, just wait till bc.i picks up on it and your wallet gets updated.


Thats not a wallet, thats an exchange and not a very popular[1] one. I would never use an exchange to store coins unless for day trading.


[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=550487.0

What's does it means if node is not connected ?

I'm very worried about this thing  :-\

same, i just send money to electrum wallet with https://btc.blockr.io/tx/push method.
But still, its need confirm or i can't spend it :/
EDIT: NVM , its confirmed :]
So my money is safe now :)

The bitcoin network consist of several players if you will.
The miners: they find blocks and confirm transactions
those running a full node: e.g. me and others using bitcoin core/qt at home or on a server, mining pools or solo miners are running a full node as well. They relay transactions and thus help "everyone else" (see below) to get their transactions to the miners. They also keep a full copy of the blockchain (currently ~33 GB).
everyone else: Everyone else that is using a slim or online wallet like electrum, multibit, bc.i, xapo etc. Those running a slim client either connect via special servers (e.g. electrum) or directly to full nodes (e.g. multibit) to the network. They dont need the full blockchain because those running a full node provide the blockchain for them as needed. Big services like bc.i are similar as you the user do not need a full node, the service provies them for you. What happend today is that the nodes bc.i uses to broadcast your transactions to the other nodes and thus to the miners are down.

Not gonna lie you are the fucking man.

Worked like a charm

bc.info cannot receive/send new transaction / does not check for new block. I can only think these things.

Blockchain.info seems to be working fine, what's the issue?

The site runs but it's bitcoin client is disconnected from the remaining world and the site doesn't showing up any new blocks.

This isn't the first time that it happens.

TL;DR : Nothing severe - don't panic

That's always good to hear!

They normally mention any problems they're having on their twitter.

Ahhhhh ok cool.
I was beginning to worry, I still have a number of BTC on there that I haven't got round to putting in paper wallets yet.

I don't panic, but i was looking for alternatives because who knows when blockchain stops working.
So i temporally transferred my coins to electrum and whenever blockchain is back, i will transfer back as blockchain is better than electrum :P

People are just a little nervous considering all the hacks that happened lately..  

Anyway, paper wallet..

If you like a webWallet I suggest you greenAddress but if you like a desktop wallet (also portable) choose electrum.  Blockchain.info is "bugged".

greenAddress seems interesting, how many users do they have ?

Just saw this on reddit.




[–]blockchainwallet 1 point a minute ago
Thanks for the heads up. I've notified our team, and they are working to resolve this asap.
-Mandrik
Blockchain.info User Operations Manager

bc.i is back with 76 nodes connected

And it's stuck again at block 345544 ..  >:(

No. You are wrong. Block number 345546 has already been mined. It was mined by slush and it has been 19mkns since it got mined. Everything is fine now.

Oh, I'm talking about blockchain.info not about bitcoin blockchain.  ;)

My topic about Blockchain.info problem

Blockchian.info import/export key [BUT HOW I CREATE THIS SHOW ME WRONG ADDRESS?]

And This How i lost my 4 Bitcoins  :'(
this yesterday news i make step by step some guys help me this about Base58
but 1,5 years ago be Bitcoin-Qt Desain Menue in blockchain make broken my PrivateKey  ::)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=971023.0;all


this my reccommendation
and try check your transaction in onother block chain site coz maybe this is come normal procedure but blockchain show you zero/0/empty   :o

if you see about 0 nodes yes maybe onother chain analogs help you

this is possible i think

Seems blockchain.com has similar issues.
Last block: 344546 -> same as blockchain.info.

not good!

So it's fucked again?

blockr.io (https://btc.blockr.io) also says latest block is 345546, so probably nobody could mine next block, I think.

EDIT: blocktrail.com (https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/00000000000000000a6bd36f7cb1155497899dddaf03fdbcd7b4159e561a523a) says there is 345547... uhm.

A better solution would be to push it via the 'sendrawtransaction' command on qt

again 0 nodes  >:(

IMHO it makes no difference which node broadcasts the TX. I can do it, blockr.io can do it, anyone else with a full node can do it.

That's why people say not to use web wallets - you rely on them, but bitcoin is designed not to rely on others!

Btw, while connected, was their non-manually-broadcasted bc.info originated txs broadcasted?

Well its actually stuck at 345546 and not at 345544.
Its been 2hours and few minutes now.
What is the actual problem here?

The problem that it (blockchain.info) is not connected to the bitcoin network, maybe they have shut down their full nodes (I don't know).

What are you saying? Bitcoin is based on a network. So every nodes communicate with the others, it is normal that a web wallet works on a full node.

Uhm, sorry, I should have had some misunderstanding at that moment.

If you use your own node to broadcast the TX then you will have slightly more control as by default QT will rebroadcast every 20 (?) minutes while nodes like blockr.io will likely not. If the nodes that blockr.io happen to be connected to when the tx is broadcast happen to be having problems then the tx may not propagate throughout the network.  

Granted, that might be a point. For some it might also be a privacy issue. I did not think about that earlier. Usually if you broadcast a TX no one knows your IP as they can not know if the TX originated from you. In this case they do.
btw eligius[1] no longer works.


[1] http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/pushtxn.php

well I would say that you probably would have better privacy broadcasting a tx from a non-well connected node rather then a website that will push a tx through their well connected node. If you use blocker.io, blockchain.info or bitpay to broadcast your tx it will be well established that their node was the one that first broadcast the tx, additionally people are more likely to not use privacy tools (like VPNs, tor, or even a VPS -that you connect to via a VPN) when broadcasting a tx via one of these sites.

On the other hand when you broadcast a tx from a QT client run on a home computer (not well connected) the major block explorers will not correctly display your IP address as the node that first relayed the tx.

The above means that if an attacker was trying to find your identity, then they would need to only ask one entity for your IP address if you broadcast it via blockchain.info or et el, however an attacker would need to ask an unknown but larger number of nodes for your IP address (all of which must keep accurate records) in order to determine your IP address. Plus blockchain.info et el is more likely to keep records of who broadcast which transactions then other nodes.