Thanks, I am doing that right now. So, if next time I open bitcoin core it gives me the reindex problem again, can I just unzip this chainstate directory and replace the one in appdata/bitcoin with this backup and then no need to reindex again?

Right now bitcoin core, after having reindexed for almost three whole days, it is now updating download of recent blockchain blocks, but it seems stuck at "9 hours"...

Yes, I know armory sort of runs bitcoin core in the background or something. The thing is, I have bitcoin core open right now. It's taken me almost 3 whole days to reindex the blocks (second time now!) and after it did then it continued updating the blockchain download, but it seems stuck at the last 9 hours...
But I am afraid to close bitcoin core in case I get the reindex problem again, so wondering if there is any problem if I launch armory while having bitcoin core open too?

I tried a search in this forum but could not find anything with "armory with bitcoin core open", sorry if this question has been asked a trillion times 

Thanks, got mixed up. Bitcoin  core only manages one single wallet file at a time, noted. (It's with armory where I have more than one).

One thing, so if I manage to download the whole blockchain with bitcoin core as I am in fact doing, if later I take that wallet.dat file from bitcoin core, could I use this file in another lighweight client (electrum) to check my coins? What if I have several wallets in bitcoin core, will there be one wallet.dat per wallet to copy or just the one ? thanks

Same thing happening here !
bitcoin core seems to never get past the "last 9 days" when downloading blockchain (takes me about 4 days on my win7 laptop !)
After that, when  I close bitcoin core and re-start it has to reindix the blocks (second time it's happened in a row, and it takes me about 48 hours to do so !)

Besides making sure that bitcoin core is completely closed the next time I close it, IS THERE ANYWAY THAT I CAN MAKE A BACKUP OF THE BLOCKCHAIN ONCE IT'S FULLY REINDEXED SO THAT I CAN USE THAT BACKUP IN CASE I AM HAVING TO REINDEX AGAIN ?

I read a rumor somewhere that BLOOMBERG might start including bitcoin in their charts in cooperation with blockchain, to be announced tomorrow...

See Tweet:

https://twitter.com/niccary/status/440598582551674880

1. Recordar en todo momento que lo que invertes en bitcoin puedes perderlo en su totalidad.
2. Recordar que antes de invertir aceptaste ese hecho y que por tanto es una decisión de negocio (mejor dicho, especulación).
3. Paciencia, mucha paciencia.

Ahora bien, si quieres hacer trading, te mereces que el estres te destruya a tí y a tu capital. Por listo.

I repeat:

To hold too much fiat or too many bitcoins at any exchange is retarded. There is nothing to back you up.
The proposed strategy was and is to buy quickly, maybe during a, say, seven day window for some cost averaging, and withdraw all bitcoins as you buy them.

But of course, if you want to let greed (having money and bitcoins there for long so as to TRADE) guide your decisions...

I am not impressed. Perhaps exchanges move large amts of bitcoins all the time between their own wallets to create transaction volume, who knows.

He visto ese bajón a 100 y poco en bitcoinwisdom esta mañana pero ahora curiosamente sólo se ve un mínimo de $510.

¿Habrá sido un error de bitcoinwisdom?

CORRECION: Lo de $510 es el precio más bajo mostrado en el chart de bitstamp pero el precio de $102 SI que se muestra en el de BTC-E. Habrá sido error en BTC-E, o solamente unos segundos de bajón en ese exchange supongo.

Thanks both replies.

Yes, I am scanning just the appdata/armory folder with avast too.
What's exactly inside those sst files ? Is it text ?

Uninstalled Armory, deleted the Armory files, including databases. Reinstalled, synchronized OK. I Ran the antivirus program (Avast) again and AGAIN I got a TROJAN warning as the above, mwith a different SST file this time. The Antivirus program deleted that one too but then Armory crashed with an error warning when trying to Sync again.

Can anyone give me some feedback as to if there are any precedents to this sort of thing ? Should I worry ? Is there anyplace else where this sort of issue has been addressed ?

THANKS

So many maybes, yes.

so much fear, greed, wishful thinking, dreams and nightmares, yes.

prepare for the worst, that is, losing all money invested in bitcoin, but hope for the best and hang on.

This is not a poem, no.

 

Hi, used Search in this Armory forum but got no results.

In windows7 an antivirus program detected the following TROJAN:

AppData\Roaming\Armory\databases\levelb_blkdata\035288.sst   marking it as: VBS:Bicolo-IU(Trj)


Has this issue been addressed already ? Is it somthing normal or something abnormal to worry about?

Please let us know, thanks.

Mis previsiones:


$0
o
10.000
o
$ 818 (precio actual aproximado de ahora)
o
$ 1200
o
alguien te roba los bitcoins y también $0

No, no me estoy haciendo el gracioso sino dándome una dosis de realismo.

Todo lo que inviertas en bitcoin, debes saber y aceptar, puede terminar valiendo cero en un momento dado. También puede que no. Ambos son posibles. Mejor no dejar que el "wishful thinking" nuble la cabeza, que eso es muy malo para las decisiones de inversión.

dorroworld, lamento sinceramente lo que te ha ocurrido.

Por si no lo has hecho ya, te sugiero que, si lo que estás invirtiendo en bitcoins es considerable, tóomatelo como un negocio en serio. Más vale dedicarle dos o tres semanas a hacerte un plan de acción (y llevarlo a cabo) de seguridad que meterse por la impaciencia sin tomar el máximo de medidas posibles.

Si montaras un negocio harías lo mismo. Le dedicarías mucho tiempo a la planificación, a medias de seguridad, a controles, a tener ordenadores completamente limpios y protegidos.

Se que es un gran esfuerzo pero es que un negocio necesita eso para tener posibilidades.

Y mira que yo tampoco soy experto en nada. Pero desde luego estoy haciendo todo lo que puedo para impedir posibilidades me pase lo que a tí y a otros.

Nunca tener bitcoins en un ordenador que se conecta a internet (por ejemplo por medio de off-line wallets con Armory)
Nunca tener demasiado dinero metido en un exchange; no hay ninguna entidad reguladora que te pueda proteger en caso de que cierren o que ocurran irregularidades
Usar un servicio VPN

En definitiva, invertir tiempo de estudio y esfuerzo proporcional al dinero que estés arriesgando en este arriesgado negocio.

A ver si terminan las festividades del año nuevo Chino, se anima el mercado Chino ahora que se puede volver a hacer depósitos en una cuenta de banco en btc china y dentro de poco podemos dar la vuelta al mundo con destinia.

En otros sitios como Bitstamp te piden mínimo confirmar por email cuando quieres retirar algo. No entiendo como BTC-e no lo haga. ¿O es que te han hackeado el email también?

Ya se que es fácil decírtelo ahora, pero en mi opinión es mejor nunca tener demasiado litecoin/bitcoin en ninguna cuenta de exchange o online, y tampoco dinero.
Ya se que eso mata el sentido del trading, para quienes lo hagaís, pero si solamente buscaís comprar, lo mejor es hacerlo e ir retirando rápido.

Más que por los posibles hackeaos, que desde luego es algo muy grave, también por el hecho de que, que yo sepa,  no hay regulador que respalde tus bienes en los exchanges en caso de que hagan bancarrota o cierren y desaparezcan por cualquier otra causa.

Recomiendo también te gastes 40$ en un servicio VPN, que rondan por ese precio anual los más baratos que además se pueden pagar con bitcoin.

I think he's not worried about how fast he can take out his bitcoins from bitstamp, but of the USD he has parked there waiting to buy bitcoins when there's a sufficient enough good drop in price.

Personally I am inclined to buy soon, even if putting orders in several price ranges, but in anycase within a short time, say 7 days, to get the bitcooins and get them out fast just in case.

Greed is good, greed is bad.

There's a a disadvantage either way.

If you park your USD there indefinitely until bitcoin makes a big drop, say to $500, your greed is bad as puts you at risk of something happening to bitstamp or their bankers and losing your USD.

If you buy quickly as I mentioned above, reduce risk of losing your USD but of course maybe you are buying much higher than "you could have bought"....if there is another big drop which isn't sure either.

Since I prefer to deal in higher probabilities and lower risk, my opinion is to do what I describe instead of having a pile of USD sitting around somebodyu else's bank when there is no regulation that can compensate me in case of government robbery or the exchange's bankruptcy.

if you are going through the trouble of using Bitcoin-qt, that is, having to download the whole blockchain, then why not make a little extra effort and also install ARMORY which I believe gives you even more protection, as you can create all your wallets completely off-line ?