There have already been times when it wasn't enough and people's transactions were delayed for days. Multibit classic isn't being actively developed any more. I recommend switching to electrum. If you don't switch and find in the future a time when the maximum fee isn't enough to move your coins you can use these instructions to export your private keys from multibit, then either import or sweep them into electrum. Start multibit, select the wallet containing your coins, then click "tools", then select "export private keys" as shown in the screenshot.  A new tab should open like the one below. Select "do not password protect export file" at the bottom of the window, then click the "export private keys button".  Click the windows start button, then copy and paste the line of text below into the search box that appears, then press the enter key to open the hidden folder containing your multibit wallet files. %appdata%\Multibit This is what your search box should look like after you have copied and pasted the line above into it.  Inside the folder that opens there should be a file with an extension ending in ".key". Open it in notepad and copy your wallet's private key. In the example file below the private key is the bit in red. # KEEP YOUR PRIVATE KEYS SAFE !
# Anyone who can read this file can spend your bitcoin.
#
# Format:
# <Base58 encoded private key>[<whitespace>[<key createdAt>]]
#
# The Base58 encoded private keys are the same format as
# produced by the Satoshi client/ sipa dumpprivkey utility.
#
# Key createdAt is in UTC format as specified by ISO 8601
# e.g: 2011-12-31T16:42:00Z . The century, 'T' and 'Z' are mandatory
#
KwUVsx4nd4UTHUtNTPnLEEqapCFvNiBrVASBZPa1ZvStQbUD87VK 2017-03-26T01:36:45Z
# End of private keys After you get your private keys you can use these instructions to import them into electrum. http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clientshttp://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-sweep-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clients |
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Was the wallet encrypted (did it have a password)? If it wasn't encrypted then attempting salvaging the coins will be easier than if it was. There is an alternative to using pywallet, but it requires more time and effort. If it wasn't encrypted you could use a hex editor capable of searching a whole hard drive to search for this string of bytes 0201010420. The next the thirty-two bytes after that string could be a private key. If you find one you can change it from raw hex to a normal format by pasting the thirty-two bytes into an offline copy of this webpage, which will also give you its associated address. https://www.bitaddress.org/This post explains how to use the webpage. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1961924.msg19522772#msg19522772This hex editor is capable of searching a whole hard drive. https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxhexeditor/These screenshots explain how to open a disk, then search it for the hex string. Click "devices", then "open disk device", then select the disk letter you want to search.  Click "edit", then "find".  This window should open. Paste the hex string into the the text box labelled "search", then click the button labelled "find all" and wait a very long time for it to search the whole drive.  If you try it run all software offline inside a virtual machine like virtualbox or vmware. Don't ever risk putting a private key on a computer that will ever be connected to the internet. If you find any private keys you can install the electrum wallet and either import or sweep them into it using these instructions. http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-import-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clientshttp://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#can-i-sweep-private-keys-from-other-bitcoin-clientsElectrum should sync almost immediately and give you fast access to your coins. Don't ever boot from that hard drive again because doing so could wipe all traces of your coins. |
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Don't give up hope. Read the comments at the bottom of this page about delayed ETH transactions. https://etherscan.io/address/0x32be343b94f860124dc4fee278fdcbd38c102d88#commentsSome people had to wait two or three days to get their transaction completed. Others had to contact their exchange and ask them to send another transaction with a higher fee. Although it might take a long time to get your ETH processed you will probably get it completed eventually. |
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Wow, incredible manipulation by the central banks witnessed this morning.
Central banks and CFTC probably pulled all nighters over the weekend to figure out a bailout plan for the Italian banks, so they could announce the bailout first thing this morning and also strategically time a dumping of $2B worth of paper Gold futures on the market to suppress a flight to Gold. Either that or the paper Gold dumping was to raise capital for the bailout? Who knows for sure. They are calling it a "fat finger" blunder, lol.
Either way, they succeeded in 'papering over' the Italian bank insolvencies for a little while longer. I don't think it'll hold up for much longer though.
There was an earlier bank bailout a month or two ago. How long until there are other banks needing bailing out, or bailing in? If there's a few more bankruptcies 'papering over' will become impossible. |
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There are instructions for setting pywallet up in this post. However the post was made in 2015 and I don't know if all the download links for the dependencies work any more. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1288078.msg13238007#msg13238007Also achow101 says the wallet.dat format changed, and pywallet struggles to work on the new format. I can't say what format your wallet.dat would be because I think the change of format was in 2013 when you say your brother installed his Bitcoin software. The Bitcoin Core wallet structure has changed since pywallet was last updated so pywallet will not work very well with new wallets.
I suggest that you use Bitcoin Core's dumpwallet console command to get all of your private keys instead of a 3rd party tool.
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if I understand well : private key is a combining of random number between 1 and 10^77.
From this private key is derived a bitcoin address with a precise algorithm.
As long as you send BTC to this bitcoin address which has been derived from your private key : you can safely say that you have the control of your fund and that your private key is valid.
can someone confirm?
Correct. If I recall correctly you can actually generate two bitcoin addresses from a given random number. But it's certainly correct that the process is completely specified. There's a python library that you can use to play around with keys from numbers, maybe 'ku' (key utils), don't remember. Anyway, python is convenient for learning, I think, the code is pretty readable and you can use the REPL to explore interactively. Yes, the example in the quote below shows the two different valid addresses derived from the same private key (extremely long random number). The first notepad screenshot is of the extremely long number (in hex format) that the two Bitcoin addresses were derived from.  This is the private key copied from notepad and pasted into an offline copy of the bitaddress wedsite. Click the view details button to get the private key converted to normal formats.  This is my multibit wallet's address 1F84fkbMng6dJpGZmtycRbUe72B7XSYbeT shown on the right hand side of bitaddress. Every raw private key can convert into two different bitcoin addresses, which is why there's two.  |
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The price crashed at the time of some auctions, but pumped about the time of the other ones. Although it's true we didn't get a strong bull market until after they all finished, there were other factors holding the price down.
We had Gox, China bans Bitcoin, the Bitstamp hack, the Bitfinex hack, etc. Every time the price started to go up another disaster crashed it. Besides all that Bitcoin had pumped from $2 to over $1000. It was due a correction after those gains.
The price has languished for so long now that new disasters don't seem to affect it a much. Maybe it's due to go up simply because it's been languishing.
The price has languished?  Relative to what?  I suppose one could say a bullet "languishes" when compared to a photon. Over 250% increase since the beginning of the year? Pretty incredible to me. I still have a hard time grasping how something with such a high yield could possibly be a safe "store of value." The long period where the price languished between $200 to $300 was what I was mostly referring to. It's only become exceptionally bullish since the start of this year when it broke the ATH. I'm hoping that within another year we get a 1000% increase on today's price. Even though the bull market became much more pronounced and upwardly explosive since the beginning of this year, the bull market started in late 2015 at around $250-ish; however, we were not really able to confirm the existence of such bull market until about late May 2016 when prices flew passed $500.. and ever since then, we been in a bull market, in spite of some of these corrections. Sure this bull market could reverse, but it is really not clear yet, and staying above $1200 remains a pretty decent sign that we are still in a bull market. In other words, we gotta zoom out a bit to make those kinds of bull market / bear market calls. I feel like we are still in a bull market, and wonder if the latest Italian bank events could move the price up. Italy is spending up to $19 billion to bail out two of its banks. If more banks need bailing out people could start buying Bitcoin as a safe haven. Although I was expecting flat Bitcoin prices for a while the bank bailouts could change things. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-25/italy-mobilizes-up-to-19-billion-to-keep-veneto-banks-afloat |
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Helo guys Any updates Why bitcoin is moving down slowly?
It's the weekend, and bank transfers of fiat to exchanges stop during weekends. Although we used to expect a weekend dump there have recently been weekend pumps, possibly because people had fiat saved on exchanges. Unfortunately wt seems we are back to the weekend dump cycle again. However, it might prove to be a trick and the price might yet pump like orpington suggests. Helo guys Any updates Why bitcoin is moving down slowly?
They want you to think its all over - at that point the price will rise Ye But its already couple of weeks were staying in the range €2200-2500 And were not going up Wat is holding to move? If we keep like this i think a mega dump Will come soon? What do you guys think about iT? We tested already the resistance at lower €1900-€2000 But its not working Well. Everyone is thinking were also on a mega pump.. Sometimes it goes sideways for months, and I suspect that might be happening again. A few years ago it stayed between $200 and $300 for a long time. Each dump to $200 or pump to $300 seemed a big deal, but looking at the historical charts the price stayed fairly stable. Maybe it will stay between $2000 and $3000 for a while. |
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Helo guys Any updates Why bitcoin is moving down slowly?
It's the weekend, and bank transfers of fiat to exchanges stop during weekends. Although we used to expect a weekend dump there have recently been weekend pumps, possibly because people had fiat saved on exchanges. Unfortunately wt seems we are back to the weekend dump cycle again. However, it might prove to be a trick and the price might yet pump like orpington suggests. Helo guys Any updates Why bitcoin is moving down slowly?
They want you to think its all over - at that point the price will rise |
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The price crashed at the time of some auctions, but pumped about the time of the other ones. Although it's true we didn't get a strong bull market until after they all finished, there were other factors holding the price down.
We had Gox, China bans Bitcoin, the Bitstamp hack, the Bitfinex hack, etc. Every time the price started to go up another disaster crashed it. Besides all that Bitcoin had pumped from $2 to over $1000. It was due a correction after those gains.
The price has languished for so long now that new disasters don't seem to affect it a much. Maybe it's due to go up simply because it's been languishing.
The price has languished? Relative to what? I suppose one could say a bullet "languishes" when compared to a photon. Over 250% increase since the beginning of the year? Pretty incredible to me. I still have a hard time grasping how something with such a high yield could possibly be a safe "store of value." The long period where the price languished between $200 to $300 was what I was mostly referring to. It's only become exceptionally bullish since the start of this year when it broke the ATH. I'm hoping that within another year we get a 1000% increase on today's price. |
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I'd call this a bad sign. This same kid's story got trotted out at the height of the last bubble in 2013. Along with the story of a EU guy that found bitcoin on an old hard drive that he paid $27, then at the time in 2013 they were suddenly worth $886k. I think the news said he bought a condo or something. http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/man-buys-27-of-bitcoin-forgets-about-them-finds-theyre-now-worth-886k/These kinds of stories I call the "sucker" stories, that get trotted out by the MSM so that the fence sitters finally cave and invest into Bitcoin right into a bubble and eventual downturn. Stay wary my friends. And no, I'm not trolling. I'm a permabull still 90% in who has been through these Bitcoin cycles before, and have seen how this market works. Remember, the MSM is no friend to Bitcoin. Re-buy at $200 then we can start all over again? You never know. ETH went through a flash crash. There's always the chance that real Satoshi (if it is indeed one person and not a foundation) dies and the estate will have to liquidate to pay the estate taxes. (If Satoshi is a citizen of one of the countries that imposes such ridiculous taxes. US citizen would be bad. Japanese citizen would be even worse.) People forget that we have Satoshi's massive holdings hanging over our heads. Maybe Satoshi would never destroy his creation, but do you really think a government is going to care if they crash the market or not when demanding their estate taxes? FUD  Super cheap coins! That would inevitably be a short term crash and at this point, those coins would get eaten immediately. After said event, massive confidence would return to the market with the new distribution. The only thing that could destroy bitcoin is people finding no real use for it any longer. For now that is certainly not happening. We already had a small experience of that type of scenario with the US government Bitcoin auctions. Bitcoin survived and is worth ten times what it was at the time of the auctions. Satoshi's coins aren't enough to destroy Bitcoin, the project is now too big for that. And we didn't really return to a strong bull market until after those pesky auctions were out of the way? Correct? The price crashed at the time of some auctions, but pumped about the time of the other ones. Although it's true we didn't get a strong bull market until after they all finished, there were other factors holding the price down. We had Gox, China bans Bitcoin, the Bitstamp hack, the Bitfinex hack, etc. Every time the price started to go up another disaster crashed it. Besides all that Bitcoin had pumped from $2 to over $1000. It was due a correction after those gains. The price has languished for so long now that new disasters don't seem to affect it a much. Maybe it's due to go up simply because it's been languishing. |
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I'd call this a bad sign. This same kid's story got trotted out at the height of the last bubble in 2013. Along with the story of a EU guy that found bitcoin on an old hard drive that he paid $27, then at the time in 2013 they were suddenly worth $886k. I think the news said he bought a condo or something. http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/man-buys-27-of-bitcoin-forgets-about-them-finds-theyre-now-worth-886k/These kinds of stories I call the "sucker" stories, that get trotted out by the MSM so that the fence sitters finally cave and invest into Bitcoin right into a bubble and eventual downturn. Stay wary my friends. And no, I'm not trolling. I'm a permabull still 90% in who has been through these Bitcoin cycles before, and have seen how this market works. Remember, the MSM is no friend to Bitcoin. Re-buy at $200 then we can start all over again? You never know. ETH went through a flash crash. There's always the chance that real Satoshi (if it is indeed one person and not a foundation) dies and the estate will have to liquidate to pay the estate taxes. (If Satoshi is a citizen of one of the countries that imposes such ridiculous taxes. US citizen would be bad. Japanese citizen would be even worse.) People forget that we have Satoshi's massive holdings hanging over our heads. Maybe Satoshi would never destroy his creation, but do you really think a government is going to care if they crash the market or not when demanding their estate taxes? FUD Super cheap coins! That would inevitably be a short term crash and at this point, those coins would get eaten immediately. After said event, massive confidence would return to the market with the new distribution. The only thing that could destroy bitcoin is people finding no real use for it any longer. For now that is certainly not happening. We already had a small experience of that type of scenario with the US government Bitcoin auctions. Bitcoin survived and is worth ten times what it was at the time of the auctions. Satoshi's coins aren't enough to destroy Bitcoin, the project is now too big for that. |
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Hello  I am having the same problem as the OP, but I don't quite get the "sweeping" solution? Can somebody please explain that to a non-techie? Sorry for being stupid  Your help is much appreciated! Click "wallet" in the top menu bar, then move your cursor down to the "private keys" entry in the dropdown list that opens, then move it to the "sweep" entry in the second dropdown list that opens, then click your mouse.  Afterwards this window should open.  Enter a list of all the private keys you want to sweep into the window, then click the "sweep" button. |
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Bitcoin withdrawal unavailable. EUR SEPA in processing state for 2 weeks. Support not replying over a week. Account verified and seemingly no issues with it just can't withdraw in any way.
DAMN
How long ago did you verify? Has the photo ID (passport or whatever) you used to verify expired recently? I heard some exchanges force you to verify again each time a photo ID expires. |
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Yes, a new wallet on the same computer, I did the sweeping thing and have my coins back. But am still trying to understand what happened to the old wallet, so it will not happen again, and also cause I need to understand I'm glad you got your coins back. Unfortunately I'm not sure why the old wallet wouldn't sync. Maybe the wallet file had some small corruption in it that stopped electrum syncing. |
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Yes, pywallet dumped the data and there were 200+ addresses each with a list of keys including a "sec" key so I am assuming that is the privkey for each address as each one starts with the suffix you mentioned. I found my wallet address in among the data along with the "change" address you identified, so it looks like it worked So all of those change addresses which are shown on Blockchain.info are in the wallet.txt too? I am a little confused because I have been through all of the outgoings and incomings recorded in my wallet and the final balance comes to 2.50677 BTC and this is what it shows as confirmed balance. Yet BCI says balance is Zero. cheers, kev I used a website called walletexplorer to check your address 13oxYTF1CDzz63FV6FDMT7xuzpH8TRnYgb. It estimates all the other addresses in a wallet.dat and their balances. You can see the results here. https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/045bba007c5923b5/addressesIt shows this address containing 0.01229653 Bitcoins as part of your wallet 17LXn6KpumyBbyuz9MyeZ6WVLZwfBpF92s It also shows this address containing 0.0104441 Bitcoins as part of your wallet 17gKbFaoRjdpDyNKpdBVkqevdKR5kAS3Mi Apart from that all the other addresses it shows are empty. Do you recognise either of the addresses containing coins? Walletexplorer only estimates which addresses are in a wallet, so there might be others it missed. |
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Holding up pretty well on Stamp. Currently 2532 and some large buy walls just behind 2500. Lookin good for now.
Yeah, the buy walls are growing, looks much more solid than first time $2500 was passed imo I see $2500 getting closer, with low of 1505 on Bitstamp, and no really big sell wall until 2480. The patter is a dump, then some small pump and some hours of rest, then repeat. Remember that walls can be pulled with one click This last week's Bitstamp low was $2461 and we aren't even down to that half way through the weekend. Going up and down by $300 is almost noise nowadays. It's like going up and down by $30 a few years ago. It will probably repeat the same pattern next week. |
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