Hi,

I had few bitcoins in my wallet. I decided to get rid of this wallet and to send btc to new one. When I was sending btc, I put exact number of btc in the wallet, but the client complained that I need to pay transaction fee and don't have enough funds to complete it.  I subtracted the amount of fee from the amount of btc in the wallet, and transaction passed through, but somehow small fraction of btc remained. When I tried to move this tiny amount, I got insufficient funds to pay the fee complain again. I hate to destroy the wallet with a fraction of btc inside, may be this will have a value of ice cream  hundred years from now. Can I transfer this small amount to the new wallet or should I just keep the old wallet forever? Why the client does not subtract fee from transferred amount, instead of putting it on top?

MTGOX is not a bank. It is a market place where buyers meet with sellers. Of course they can trade on their own market as everybody else.

Yes, rescan option did it. My money is back  Many thanks to you guys for help.

If bitcoin devs read this forum, I would like to ask a feature to add a rescan button to standard client. Just for lammers like myself, who use ubuntu.

Here is what I did exactly.

I closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_old.dat, started client, copied new address (1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB), closed client, moved wallet.dat --> wallet_new.dat, copied wallet_old.dat --> wallet.dat, sent btc to 1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB, closed client, moved wallet_new.dat --> wallet.dat, started client, see no money

What have I done wrong?

ubuntu linux 2.10, bitcoin-qt 0.8. Here I copypaste new address from the running client

1MXRztcCUUTktCsUD6vcNADENzwwTTuGAB

This is where I sent my bitcoins to.  blockchain.info shows 39 confirmations at the moment, but my client shows 0 balance.

After accumulating  some bitcoins in local wallet, I realized, that my system automatically backed up my /home on a cloud, including my unencrypted wallet. I followed these steps to create a new wallet and transfered my btc to it.  Finally, blockchain.info shows that transaction is ok, but the client (bitcoin-qt) shows me 0 in my new wallet. Where is my money, man?
 

Hi,

My first message on this forum.

I am watching bitcoin progress and play around with different ways of getting and exchanging bitcoins. Today I bought a btc trough bitinstant and was little disappointed. I paid $50 + $3.95 fee through moneygram and got 1.001btc to my bitcoin wallet within an hour, as was promised. But it turned out to be too expensive compared to mtgox exchange rate ($47/btc at that moment). The form on the front bitinstant page asked me how much $ I want to exchange, but did not tell me anything about how much btc I am going to get. I was expecting something close to mtgox exchange rate, but it turned out that bitinstant has its own rate. It is ok if you establish your own exchange rate, but why don't you show it explicitly?