There's two things wrong here: First, I doubt Microsoft has ever created a Bitcoin Miner, so I'm pretty sure it's fake software you're running. Second, with solo mining you either find a block (and earn just under $200,000), or you get nothing. Solo mining won't earn you 1000 Satoshi.


What you should do, is remove that software, make sure your computer is absolutely clean, and forget about Bitcoin mining. You're 8 years too late for that, it's a specialist job now.

I've noticed almost everyone who has an ETH-address as Location: in their profile is just posting spam.

Most new accounts don't make a single post, and have random nicknames. Could it be they're trying to find a proxy that doesn't require a payment to get rid of units of evil?

Since many spam megathreads have been deleted, many Newbies open random BS threads on their own. I've seen Newbies with more topics opened than replies made.
I've reported much more posts and topic lately, but there are much more spammers than "good guys".

Would it be an option to charge a fee to create an account? Not just based on units of evil, but every new account has to pay a small amount. Start with $2, adjust if necessary.
This is small enough to not discourage honest people, but becomes expensive if an account farmer gets 100 accounts banned.

BTW: When reporting posts, the 4 seconds between my reports often make my reports fail.

Is it "hanging" or still doing something? In other words: does it show any CPU, hard drive or network activity?

My guess would be it's fixing something in it's downloaded blockchain, but 2 days is a long time to wait. Did you by any chance not shutdown the computer the proper way last time?

Apart from checking the source code by yourself: find other's opinions online. This isn't 100% fool proof though, and I never took the time to look into it, that's why it's not on my trust-list (yet).

You'll need to investigate each coin individually. Each coin has a website that will explain it, but it is indeed a lot of work. Then again, you should probably have done that before buying them anyway!
I think most people have no idea what they're buying, that's why ICOs have been such a great success this year. If you just buy something and keep it on an exchange, I assume you have no idea what it is. If you investigate what it is first, you'll also find out how to store your coins.

Most (or all?) coins have a block explorer online, where you can enter any address and view it's balance. This too would be good information to keep with the wallet, so that you'll remember it years later.

Of course! I've tested some paper wallets with small amounts too, it felt strange at first to just trust a piece of paper.
As long as you only check the balance of the address, and keep the private key private, you can add new funds to the same address in the future.
The moment you use the private key to check the balance in an online (hot) wallet, your paper wallet is no longer "cold". That means, if your computer would be compromised, your coins can get stolen. As long as your private key has never touched anything online, it's considered "cold storage".

I like to keep track of my investments anyway, so this seems to be a good plan. Some coins/tokens have had a "token exchange" in de past, in which you had to exchange your old tokens for a new blockchain. I've read about one case in which someone was too late to exchange them, and his old tokens became worthless. I don't expect any decent coin to do that, but it is something to keep in mind.
Forks are not a problem, as long as you keep track of it in the future. So, if you made a Bitcoin paper wallet in January this year, the private key now gives access to: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold and BitCore. I expect this list to become much longer in the future.

I suggest to take a look at BL3P for Bitcoin <> euro transfers once they open their services for new customers again:
It's created by the Dutch company Bitonic, which I trust.

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I see you like being thorough

Let's start from here: how did your backup get corrupted? I often read this, but in general digital files don't just get corrupted out of the blue. Something must have happened to it. "Corrupted" can be a lot of things.
What version of Bitcoin Core were you using when you last used the wallet.dat before you made the backup?

Are you sure you didn't make another copy you've forgotten again? It's a long shot, but you wouldn't be the first!

As far as I know, https://walletrecoveryservices.com/ can be trusted. He's specialized in password recovery, but he might have some tricks for corrupted wallets too. I suggest you send him a message.

It's always worth trying, you have nothing to lose, and at least an experience to gain.

One way or another, this requires your password. Be very careful to whom you send both wallet and password.

I'm a bit surprised with the number of people offering rewards to rescue their coins lately. In general, people are willing to help without rewards, but you are of course free to offer rewards.
I'd say OgNasty is trusted. It'll cost you 1% of the escrowed amount as a fee. I just don't think a $12000 reward will get you any better answers than a $1000 reward.

I'll pause accepting new applications until my escrow addy has been topped up. I'm not comfortable adding more people without having funds to pay them.

This campaign is still ongoing, but I'd like to hear back from BitlogicTrading first. I also know he's busy with his projects, so it's just a precaution.

That site doesn't work: Error! : Search found no results.1foreverDArUNEX2gVD26vautcx3b8zTZ.

I stumbled upon btgexplorer.com today, this site works!

According to coinsutra, Coinomi doesn't yet support SegWit addresses (starting with a 3).
If you're in a rush, you'll need to find another wallet (but I have a hard time trusting anything related to Bitcoin Gold). If you're not in a rush, you can wait until Coinomi supports SegWit somewhere in the future.

This means you've survived several exchanges that disappeared already! You're very brave keeping them there, I'm already scared when I have a fraction of a Bitcoin on an exchange for just two days.
In case it isn't clear: this is my way of telling you it's very risky, and you've been lucky so far. Don't push your luck.

There isn't a single method to keep all possible coins. Your Ledger will be a good start, use it for all the coins it accepts, and find a different solution for the rest. That's what I do: I use different options for different coins too.

Deleting data sounds like a good way to lose your coins indeed, if you don't exactly know what you're doing.

This is not safe at all: keeping a wallet offline doesn't mean keeping it offline just 99.9% of the time, it means that wallet has never touched any online computer.
Also: don't rely on just 1 USB-stick, those things can break. Make multiple backups.

There's another side to this plan: you'll also need a super easy way to sweep your paper wallets in the future.
I've actually been thinking to make an overview of different paper wallets, just to convince people to keep less money on exchanges. 20+ would be a good start!
For Bitcoin I trust https://www.bitaddress.org/ and https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/, but by all means, don't just believe random people on the internet posting random links. Do your own research, be paranoid, and use that to stay safe.
There's also https://walletgenerator.net/, which supports 158 different coins, but I don't know if it can be trusted.

You should seriously consider setting up something offline for long-term hodling.

Unplugging your computer from the internet, then creating super-secret-private-keys, deleting them, and going online again is not safe. You should assume your computer is compromised, and malware will patiently wait for you to go back online.
It depends on the wallet what you'll need to backup. For Electrum for instance it's enough to backup your word seed phrase once, for Bitcoin Core (HD) a one-time backup of your wallet.dat file is enough, and (to give an extreme example) for Byteball you'll need to backup it's complete data directory again after every Blackbytes transaction).

Have you tried Ubuntu? If not, you should at least give it a try! Download it, burn a DVD, unplug your internet, start your PC from DVD. It's quite complete and easy to use, including printer installation. Then copy the paper wallet generators to an USB stick and use them offline (with your curtains closed).
Basically all you need is a DVD, you don't need a spare computer. And yes, it's very annoying having to restart your computer each time you want to do something related to private keys, but it makes me sleep better at night

"Time" shouldn't be a concern if you're a long-term holder. It took me a long time (of postponing) before I improved my setup, but in the end it's worth it. What's a month on 5 years, right? Once you have it working, print as many paper wallets as you think you'll use in the coming 10 years. It's a one-time job. Use a cheap (=no storage inside) laserprinter (=better quality if it gets wet), and if you're truely paranoid, destroy the printer once it runs out of toner.
Remember, it's better to spend way too much time being careful, than losing your coins due to some stupid mistake.

I've seen many newbies lately offering rewards for help. And as much as that's appreciated ^{(my addy is in my profile > click my name)}, it's not required to get helpful answers.
I wouldn't try to find 1 solution for all your coins, try several solutions that cover as many of your coins as possible.

One more thing: leave instructions for yourself how to use your backups! I've seen many threads lately from people asking what to do with the 21 words they found on a piece of paper from years ago, and that's for Bitcoin online.

I think your computer has a Copy-Paste Virus For Bitcoin.
The virus changes your address while copying, and uses an address with the same starting characters so it looks the same. For that reason you shouldn't just check the first characters, but also the last, and a few in the middle too.

The "unspent outputs" are normal in Bitcoin, it will be unspent until the virus-maker decides to use it. Your money is gone.

You should consider your computer compromised: backup, format and reinstall.

If it's a big withdrawal, it could be BetKing's hot wallet is empty.
At the current Bitcoin price, BetKing doesn't keep it's hot wallet as big as it used to be.

Your change is now on 15jtwBoTKRip7qqb1SzPW7LF2RG9T61GiX.

So try this:
AdolfinWolf explained the rest already

Be careful with private keys: DO NOT post them and do not send/show them to anybody!

As far as I know SegWit addresses can just receive Bitcoin Cash funds. I'll be the first to admit I don't know the exact details, but There might be hope.
This is also a good thread to read: Recovering BCH sent to Segwit addresses

Exchanges give those warnings, and yet, it happens.

On a technical level you're right, but I was thinking on a legal level.
Of course, if you accidentally send your coins to a random address with unknown owner, there's nothing you can do. But in this case it's sent to an exchange, and the owner is known.

I'd say he is. But I'll be the first to admit I'd be annoyed if people start sending random amounts to one of my addresses, and then expect me to fork those addresses to recover their funds!
That sounds reasonable.
Bittrex charges 0.1BTC fee, and only recovers it if the initial amount is worth more than $5k. My guess is they assume anything under $5k isn't worth sueing them over, so they don't care.

Now we're back on a technical level I've made the suggestion before to give customers the option to retire the addresses they've used on the exchange. This can be an automated process, the customer pays the exchange $50, the exchange has 1 week to empty all normal funds from the addresses, and after that the customer receives the private key.
This could be a relatively easy and cheap way to recover your funds.

The fact that there is no "undo"-button is a feature, not a bug

This is not how you should advertise the company in your signature. Please edit this message and turn it into something decent. Or delete it.

(some cleanup in the thread)
Don't lower yourself to that level, no matter what they do


Some things I noticed while counting posts:
If someone starts a thread like this:
It's not worth responding. This should be reported as an insubstantial thread, which is what I did.

Another example:
Since many Spam Megathreads have been deleted, Newbies are now just starting many threads to increase their post count. This thread isn't worth 7 pages of replies.

Another example:
You're the 9th person in that thread to say it's gonna happen in 2140. This is exactly what I meant here:

A small change in the rules: starting today, posts in Mining (Altcoins) are no longer counted. It is of course allowed to post in threads that aren't counted.

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Note: my escrow address may or may not have enough funds left to pay for next week, I've requested for it to be topped up, but as a full disclaimer: I don't want to be liable for it by myself.

Busy day here, you have a reply.
All other applications are rejected.

At this price, I thought you'd be an asset to my signature campaign. Until I checked your post history, it turns out you're just spamming "Up" and haven't had a single decent post since 2014. Are you using a hacked account?