I'm using Windows 7, bitcoin v 0.3.21

I made a copy of my wallet.dat and deleted the db files and all the files cuz i needed space on my C drive ( in users/me/app data/roaming )
i figured i could just rerun bitcoins but now its just 0/transactions for all my bitcoins and saying i have 0 bitcoins
i tried bitcoin -rescan, doesnt do anything that just running bitcoin would do

how do i force it to redownload the blocks ?  I notice now when i run it I only have 4 connections i used to have 50+ almost instantly

i read other posts talking about the client 'downloading blocks' but it doesent seem to be doing anything

what's right/wrong here?

1) a wallet starts with 1 address, a public key you can see in the client, and give to the world, and a private key hidden in a wallet.dat file
2) from time to time a wallet generates a new address for various reasons most of us dont care about
3) is this new address just a public key associated with your original wallet.dat private key, or is it a KEYPAIR ( a public address that is associated with a NEW additional private address now stored with your old private keys in wallet.dat)

i got my account back today finally im beginning to think gox is not a scam after all.. maybe I can just withdraw the money or buy bitcoins with it..

how about we add a few bits and let people do wallet locks?  i think most of us at this time are hoarders who know bitcoisn will be worth 100,000$ per bitcoin one day

a wallet lock is something that only honest users would be interested in imho.. u can use a password to lock/unlock but not to send coins

the fact is.. yeah windows has exploits that pretty much allow hackers at anytime to own your system, they are in the wild before they're even patched and no windows  box is ever totally secure at any given time.. a 0-day hacker can always rape yer bitcoinZ

I cant get this to run on windows XP SP3, catalyst 11.6, stream SDK 2.4, radeon 5830.  CPU mining works fine but when i try to mine
with [0-0] Cypress, it says 'connected' then [0 hash/s 0 accepted 0 rejected], forever

any ideas?

if anyone needs some 16x-16x risers let me know i have some ill sell them cheaper than amazon and ship within USA (so u dont have to wait 3 weeks for hong kong)

16x-16x ship for 1 bitcoin anywhere in US

or 3 for 2BTC. sjhipped.



my yim is bitcoinlover

the C++ runtimes fixed the startup problem, but now i have an odd problem where it gets stuck at 'connecting'

I know its not an internet problem because I can mine with the CPU (sempron 140) but when i switch to [0-0] Cypress, it gets stuck at connecting and doesnt do a single hash

I'm using Windows XP SP 3, With Guiminer v2011-06-14, 11-6 xp 32 bit catalyst drivers, and 2.4 amd APP SDK Windows 32-bit drivers.

tried poclbm and phoenix miner, same problem on both

the system will still be secure but what hes talking about is adoption.. small time miners quitting are also quitting bitcoins, since they have no reasonable way of achieving them anymore.. the exchanges are a nightmare and require long delays.  

I deposited a small amoutn of $$ 3 weeks ago with the purpose of purchasing bitcoins, and to this day i have been unable to do so.. dwolla registration delays, mt gox wire xfer problems, then the mt gox crash, now the account verification nightmare.  The only reason i have bitcoins is due to mining, period.

miners are actually the best hope of people actually using bitcoins for a bitcoin economy like the gold miners during the gold rush bought levi's, mining equipment, etc.. with their mined gold.

I dont think its a huge issue.. whats going on here is just growing pains, plain and simple... as time goes on and the marketplace becomes more mature all these problems will be solved as long as gavin keeps plugging away at the fundmanental problems of bitcoin (the transaction fees, the everexpanding block chain, legal issues)

I'm a die-hard bitcoiner.. most people i was involved with on this thing have quietly given up.. most of the people i was selling mining gear to saw the gox debacle and the difficulty increase and just quietly backed out of the deals... this is just too much hassle for most people, "the silent majority"

It is unclear if the exchange is registered as a Financial Instruments Firm with the Japanese regulator Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Ministry of Finance).  The firm’s website lists Mutum Sigillum, LLC of Delaware as a subsidiary and that is the name associated with the Dwolla account provided to those in the U.S. for moving funds to and from the exchange.  


Ahhhh a US subsidiary then...  If you're filing suit I would recommend that company (though im sure its an assetless shell).
If we can drive them into bankruptcy I'm sure Dwolla will drop them..  and at least stop these incompetent clowns from wreaking more havoc on the bitcoin economy lol.

Well we'll see, I'll definitely be notifying their state's securities regulators and that LLC directly exactly who they're processing payments for, and then they can judge themselves if they want to accept liability or just cut them off.

I'm getting my money back.. nearly 1000$ (not bitcoins) and they wont even respond to my emails.  Someone's gonna fucking pay.

all of south america is pretty much a giant contest to see who can mooch the most free stuff off everyone else, when talking financial services chile doesnt exactly spring to mind as a great location for it .. wasnt francois markelez from mtHax or whatever talking about a peer 2 peer open source exchange that could put an end to all these scamchanges once and for all?

lol correct, suing and winning are two totally different things.  Well, first I'll give them a chance to give me my money back, but they've ignored every email so far.  Then I'm going to try a reversal through my bank and if that fails, I'll send a certified letter to their payment process in the US, if that fails, then I will sue.. and I bet I win too or at least get a judgement vs their payment processor in the US.  I've sued multiple times and been sued myself multiple times.  One time I flew all the way to alabama and lost the case in about 5 minutes.

This magical tux guy comes off like a total a-hole to be honest so I'd relish this opportunity.  He seems to think that being the target of hate mail, lawsuits and other threats is just a random occurence and indicative that everyone must be insane but him, messiah complex.

I bet you I can sue these guys.. wanna bet?  I will post the details on here step by step instructions and get a case number for you - we can use that arbitration service to settle the wager lol, anyone know the name of the LLC/state it operated in that handled their US payments?  I'll get on the horn first thing monday.. I got provable damages in US dollars over small claims amounts too

lol, in this country.. america.. one can sue anyone for any reason at any time.. u just need to convince a judge or jury (wonder how popular the frenchman will be to a US jury)

Someone once sued mcdonalds for their coffee being too hot.. lot of bored, out of work, lawyers in the US.

So if you really lost money with them i'd find the US entity they transact with and just call a lawyer up in their state and ask for a free consultation.
If you are smart you dont even need a lawyer really you can just do it all yourself and start filing subpoenas with the county clerk for 25$.  It's up to their lawyer to contest your subpoena.

Get a court date set, and subpoena everything you can.

Oh and by the way, I'm sure there were plenty of lawsuits about the flash crash in may.. yer a deluded if u dont think that.

The above is NOT legal advice, consult your own lawyer to see how you should proceed with your individual situation.

http://www.vanosteen.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit.htm   - they wont 2 mil+ on it
http://money.cnn.com/2003/01/22/news/companies/mcdonalds/ - lawsuit blaming mcdonalds for 'making them fat' haha they lost that one

god bless america

totally agree here.. have yet to conclude a transactoin in bitcoins, either total lowball offer, or they're scared i'm a scammer.
also alot of agreeing then they change their mind at the last second, and just general wasting time.

for some reason shipping is expected to be paid for by the seller too even tho this is not the case in any other transaction, and usually to some weird place in europe or a cult in montana or some weird ass shit.

If I and grow one of those weird mustaches thats is halfway up my face and then put on a tuxedo or whatever
can i be a that guy and get a million $$$

how come in politics people can wear a bow tie or whatever like that one weird senator from illinois or other things like in politics u can wear a mr peanut monocle for real and people have to not laugh cuz yer like a real guy in politics...

the more retarded u the more they have pretend yer a real person... but if yer just a regular person u cant get anywhere in politics cuz u got no 'zazz'

heres your typical 'bitcoin user'

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22245.0

This pretty much sums up my experience trying to buy/sell things in bitcoins.  Lowballers, scammers, snotty 18 year olds, europeans, you pay first, no u pay first, etc.. then 'screw it go on ebay and sell it to regular people using regular money'

ok so yer based in chile... wonderful.. and obviously no stranger to spam and lots of annoying sigs in forums..

how long til we get a real exchange that isnt goxian or spamhill/ banana republicBux?  Cant we get some freaking americans on this job?  Playtimes over...

<Shudders to think what extradition treaty loopholes motivated all these guys to move down there>

you dont understand what hacking is.  What you're talking about is what mathematicians do.  Hacking is finding the weakest link in a system, and exploiting it.
It's your kind of thinking that leads to complacenncy which is what hackers love.

A hacker would much rather hack an easy stash of 400k bitcoins than reverse an algorithm that might get them 500 bitcoins an hour, before the algo was re-tweaked to something else, once it became obvious.  Most hackers couldnt come close to doing what mathematicians do, they rely on mostly on easy scripts and human error and social engineering.

A hacker wouldnt even try to reverse the algo, they'd rewrite a crypto.dll call to make the algorithm meaningless, then put it on 2-3 major mining pools.. or they'd corrupt the portal used to distribute bitcoin.exe, or write a worm that did it, or DDOS major pools, or hell just bribe an IT guy working at tradehill.

I believe the phrase is 'accounting irregularities' and ruh roh.. looks we just all got...