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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: BurntSnow on September 01, 2011, 11:53:49 PM



Title: Bitcoins Won't Show Up?
Post by: BurntSnow on September 01, 2011, 11:53:49 PM
It's been 2 days now, and no Bitcoin transactions have been showing up on the app (I believe it's called a wallet). BTC have been sent to different addresses linked to the wallet, but it still shows that I have a balance of 0. What do I do?


Title: Re: Bitcoins Won't Show Up?
Post by: skilo on September 01, 2011, 11:55:24 PM
go to blockexplorer.com you must have the full blockchain downloaded to see transactions.

Its those numbers at the bottom of your client that keep changing.


Title: Re: Bitcoins Won't Show Up?
Post by: skilo on September 01, 2011, 11:56:40 PM
they should read 143536 at the bottom of your client as of now. if not then you dont have all of it yet, just keep your client running and you will downlaod the whole chain.


Title: Re: Bitcoins Won't Show Up?
Post by: BurntSnow on September 02, 2011, 12:07:27 AM
Right now, the client (by client you're referring to the app, right?) says 115,152 blocks. Maybe that's the problem. This is the transaction list-
http://blockexplorer.com/address/1GA6pssevE4qZv4dscU7RqFacUTzHQujg2


Title: Re: Bitcoins Won't Show Up?
Post by: Revalin on September 02, 2011, 05:51:26 AM
Yep.  The first thing the client does on a new install is download the whole blockchain and verify everything which takes a while, especially on a slow computer.  Once it's fully caught up it should only take a few minutes after you start it before it catches up again.

Your transaction is in block # 143,358.  When your client (the app) reaches that block the transaction will appear, and then each block it processes after that will click the "confirmations" up by one.