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Same thing happened to me Wednesday. I had corruption in my block chain.
I shut down Bitcoin
Made a copy of the entire bitcoin directory for safety
Deleted everything in the bitcoin directory
Copied over a wallet.dat from before the corruption started
Restarted Bitcoin
Bitcoin downloaded the block chain and rebuilt my missing transactions.
My corruption was the result of my Bitcoin client crashing. Pay attention to any error messages you see.
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Still weird. Does anyone know why MyBitCoin is still down? Argh.
I suspect he took the bitcoins and sold them off the last couple days.  |
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Quick answer:
SHUT DOWN Bitcoin completely, including out of the tray (assuming you're able to start it in the first place)
SAVE wallet.dat (make an extra backup to a USB flash drive while you're at it - this is your coins)
DELETE all of the other files in the folder, leaving only wallet.dat behind
Restart Bitcoin
+1 This saved me as well.  |
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Why are you guys still talking about that? Haven't we establish the owner is over 18?
No, we've only had the owner say he was over 18. I'm not posting this because I don't believe him; I'm posting because we just had another identical service disappear with a lot of people's coins. This type of site asks that you deposit valuable commodities with them - surely it should be put under greater scrutiny than a mining pool or other service. Maybe someone in the area could meet him for coffee, verify his ID, etc. This way you would have a starting point for a lawsuit should anything happen to your assets. As a community we need to learn from our mistakes. |
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Interesting article indeed.
I see that e-gold peaked at $85 million, roughly where bitcoins are now. I wonder if that's some kind of cut off point where the authorities start freaking and taking whatever action they need to spoil the party.
E-Gold was a centralized currency run by scammers. Over three years I dealt with them, there were numerous reports of accounts being hacked and all the money stolen. Many suspected it was the owners. |
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Lets be realistic here.
McDonalds would fire the checker for screwing up, and then demand concrete proof from the customer that the customer doesn't have, and then keep the change.
I did retail many many moons ago, and I was taught to put the customers bill on top of the cash drawer, not in it. Then you count your change and present it. If the customer says he gave me $100, I can point to the $50 sitting there and say no you didn't. Once the customer accepts the change and walks away, I put their bill in my cash drawer. That transaction is committed and could not be reversed. |
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Don't worry guys, a new breed of hardware is on the way What I would like is something in the form factor of a heating element which could be threaded into a water tank. A couple of high current wires, and tough cable with a female RJ45 is all I want to see. Actually, throw in a serial port on the cable as well maybe. The whole thing should operate at something north of 100 C and shut down automatically if it got much hotter than that. Can you do it? You can immerse any computer component into a water tank - just make sure the water has been purified to remove the conductive minerals. |
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I do a lot of online work for people I have never met. I dislike Paypal, but I can't drop them until I have a similar replacement. |
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This may be off topic, but I just switched my primary PayPal currency from USD to CAD. I received a 1:1 exchange rate. This is insulting, since the Canadian dollar is above the USD almost 5%. That's a lot of "service fees" to pay for a simple one time exchange.  |
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I will keep my mining rigs running no matter what. I'll completely cover the electricity costs if needed (provided I have a job to pay) at full loss.
That is an awesome attitude, and is the same thing I do. Sure, it may not be considered profitable at every moment, but I believe in the technology and I believe prices will rise. |
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If you're interested in running the site, shoot me a PM and we can work out compensation, etc.
I don't want to dissuade others, so I'm posting here that I'm not interested. I think it's a great idea, but I don't have much experience with those technologies. Good luck! |
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Yeah, I think so. The potential liability of somebody finding an exploit and stealing from my customers, plus the potential legal liability is too much to shoulder for the amount of money that I could potentially make on that sort of thing.
It makes me very sad to have to close the site, especially after I've put in n-hundred hours of work on it, but I think this is the best option.
I'll reiterate: if anyone wants to take over operating the site, I will give any and all assistance I can. I really don't want to see this site die, even if I can't run it anymore.
Duncan, with your generic message on, I can't tell much about the technology. What language and database did you use? What compensation are you looking at in exchange for transfer of the service? |
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Why the fuck can't they give a heads up before dropping off the face of the map!?
So they can steal as much as possible? |
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Isn't this just a watch with "BTC" engraved on the back? Never mind, I see more custom features. Very nice watch BTW. |
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niemivh you are right, mining will not be profitable in the future. Bitcoin is the only commodity in history that has a GUARANTEED REDUCTION in rewards by 50% every few years until returns drop to ZERO. Then you are depending on transaction fees which have no guarantees that they will be significant.
What are you talking about? Bitcoin does not have a guaranteed reduction in rewards. MINING bitcoins does. The two are completely different. |
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I predict that a client for casual users that stores as little of the chain as possible will be in widespread use at least one full year before the size of the block chain database file grows to the size that would take up 1% of the average (mean) hard drive size of typical home PCs.
Forget home PCs for a second. For bitcoin to go mainstream, we need to be able to pay from our cell phones. Modern (even near future) download speeds can't handle the blockchain size. |
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So why are we expected to pay these guys 2% of every transaction to use this service as a merchant?
I have no problem paying a fee to use a merchant service. However, they should take the donate "begging" link off their front page before they start. |
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They responded by "freezing" my "pending" transactions. Their site said I had "0 pending" transactions. But the last ACH withdrawal made 3 days before the phone call has yet to be credited to my bank account. Anyway, I will give it a few more business days, then try written correspondence, then seek civil and criminal penalties. I figure it will be worth it since I can get costs and if I'm lucky treble damages, punitive damages, or restitution. It would be a class action if they are doing this to lots of people.
Class actions only benefit the lawyers. Usually the plaintiffs get pennies on the dollar. A series of individual small lawsuits would do a lot more damage to them. |
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Yes, at BuyMyBitcoin.com all transactions are settled off-site. Reputations help build trust and the actors can work out their own arrangements - be it escrow or trust.
Reputation doesn't matter on an exchange when you are guaranteed to get your btc/$ the instant the trade goes through. With your method, sure you can trust somebody until they decide a certain trade is worth ruining their reputation. Until then you need to deal with language and time zone issues, and wait until the transfer goes through through various means. I really don't see the advantage. |
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