You should NOT post all of data (your emails with coinbase, .. ) which contain sensitive information publicly online.

For now, the address you have sent the funds to (or the tx id) is enough. We can get a better picture of the whole situation knowing this.




But you did got the first deposit credited on your account ?
What wallet and OS are you using ? What device did you use to access coinbase when depositing ?




Your history on coinbase or your local wallets history ?
Please answer all open questions, it would simplify finding out what happened a lot.

Unfortunately, bitcoin (or any other crypto) is not a mean for payments for most people.
It is more just a tool to get rich quick. The majority regards bitcoin as a speculative investment, instead of a currency.

The true price (reflecting the real value) probably will only be reached once people start to use BTC as it is supposed to be. As a currency.
Whether it will be via LN, on-chain or any other additional layer doesn't matter.
The most important factor which thrives the price up is adoption.

And while people should be happy to see a lot of (legit) transactions happening, most of them are scared once larger amounts are moved, because they could be used to 'dump' the market.
People are more focused on short term trades than long term ones, unfortunately.

The good thing about the LN is that anyone can open a big amount of channels to get payed to route a payment.
You don't need specialized hardware and electricity costs far below the average to compete and earn money.

You just have to provide a funded channel to route the payment. So anyone (including miner) can participate the same way.




They are small (or non-existent) at the moment.
But once LN is 'released' and truly tested and fully developed, the fees will increase when the user base and transaction made there increases.

These tx fees will still be way lower than the fees from on-chain tx's, but balancing thousands of channels should definitely make it worth it (at a stage where the LN is fully functional and used).

Are you really sure the both addresses are identical ? Did you check that afterwards ?
You might have a copy-clipboard-malware which changes an copied address to the attackers one.

But if you are sure those two addresses are identical, all you can do is contact coinbase and show them your first deposit which got credited (to that specific address).
They should be able to find their mistake and credit you the amount.




Since the checksum is 32 bits, the probability of entering an wrong address that will still decode to a valid one is roughly 1 in 4.3 billion.

Thats rather unprobable. Copy/pasting the wrong address or a clipping malware does seem way more realistic in this case.

Thats the problem with low quality software which hasn't been tested properly and extensively.
A lot of people are looking to save a few hundred/thousand bucks when hiring a developer to create a software.

Unfortunately those people will never understand that investing a few more bucks into the software will safe you way more money in the later run 

Additionally it seemed like the software hasn't been tested at all    A simple unit test would have shown the inconsistency in the first run..


@OP: If you have a purchase contract regarding the software, you probably can claim damages towards the developer.
Each software has to be tested properly before being delivered. And such a mistake definitely stands out..

But, if you tried to save a few bucks.. well.. that was your own fault then i'd say.. 

A lot of people occasionally have the same situation where a transaction isn't instantly confirmed.
That's nothing unusual.




Uhm.. depends on how you look at it.
The transaction is not confirmed yet. So it is not fully completed yet.

It has been broadcasted, but has not been yet settled on the blockchain. Consider it as not final yet.




This is fine. Your transaction will confirm earlier or later.
Even if it doesn't get confirmed, you still have the possibility to bump the fee (if you had RBF enabled when sending the transaction).

The 'friends' who say you should transact 'high value as much as possible' probably don't have a clue at all.
The value you transact is completely unrelated to the time it takes for your TX to be confirmed. This only depends on the fee rate (sat/B) and the amount of TX waiting to get confirmed)

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Mark my words:
Most people talking to you.. don't have a clue at all what they are talking about.
It is always up to you to filter senseless rubbish out from actual true information.

Or a faster way:

Press WIN-key + R to open the Run-command-windows.
Then enter either:

(to open the bitcoin folder inside AppData)

or:

to open the AppData folder.


This does work WITHOUT activating to display hidden folders.
Then do what HCP said and look if the tree structure looks 'normal' (blocks folder exists, .. ).

Aren't Jaxx and Exodus completely unrelated wallets ?
I thought Jaxx does allow exporting the seed. Even without having a balance stored there.

Either way.. Jaxx AND Exodus are both wallets which should NOT be advised to use. Both seem to be buggy and partly exploitable.


@OP:
The best bet would be to use any other compatible wallet. Jaxx follows BIP 32/39/44.
If you didn't change any settings upon creating the wallet (i.e. derivation path; i am not sure if you are even allowed to change that parameter there) your seed should create the same addresses / private keys.

Actually, flash memory is extremely cheap right now.

You can buy a 256 gb stick (which is enough for the whole blockchain) for 35$.
And a 126 gb stick only costs around 20$.

With the current overthrow of the storage market, most prices are hilariously low. Especially flash memory (SSDs / USBs).

Each transaction needs a fee to be propagated through the network and to be finally included into a block.

The answer is yes, you need to pay a fee when sending to your own address.

You need to occasionally (when the fees are low) consolidate your inputs (see LoyceV's link). You will need to pay a fee for this transactions, but it will be the minimum fee (1 sat/B).
And once the transaction fee rises, you'll benefit from a smaller transaction size since you only have 1 UTXO instead of X.

Do you have the 'Allow Incoming connections' box ticked in the settings of core ?

Outgoing and incoming connections are seperated. You need to allow incoming connections to be reachable from outside of your home network.

There are several sites available online which can check whether your machine is reachable on specific ports. You may try this out. It takes half a minute and you know whether your machine is reachable.

He wanted to say that you should remove all other coins associated to these private keys (especially BTC) before entering them on a website.
This whole concept COULD be a whole scam just to get private keys to steal BTC. That would be nothing new. (Note: this does NOT mean that this is a scam. Just that it COULD be scam)


You have mentioned a 'secret passphrase'. Did you enter a 12/24 word mnemonic seed ?
In this case you should first move all funds associated with that seed to a completely new one before entering it in a non-reputable software to claim forks. This seed should be considered as compromised afterwards and should never be used again.

Right. Thanks for making that clarification. Should have been more detailed.

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@OP:
To mention an argument 'contra segwit': You won't be able to claim every shitcoin forkcoin anymore.
Depending on the 'aidrop' and the implementation of those forks, you might need your BTC stored on an legacy address to be able to access them later.

But since each shitcoin forkcoin created in the future, probably never will have any real value, this shouldn't be too much of an argument.

IMO the advantages (scalability, lower fees, fix of transaction malleability and being a requirement for LN (i.e. HTLC's)) outweigh the 'disadvantages'.

Note: An example can NEVER proof a theory. It can only disprove one.

The real prove is this:


The statement is:
Hash > Target  THEN  Not valid

If we negate that statement (to match the statement 'valid'):
Hash <= Target THEN Valid

And this matches #1 from OP.

Currently the majority of miner are located in china.
And china's energy is to 66% generated by coal-fired power plants.  That's by far not a 'low carbon footprint'.

Still.. compared to banks and their energy usage.. that's nothing in comparison.




Using the unused energy from renewable sources which can't be injected into the grid for mining is a very nice idea.
I believe this can be established pretty cost-efficiently.

Well, IMO encouraged users who want to actively use and spend bitcoins at a store, can have an influence on the owner of the store to accept BTC (to encourage businesses).
But encouraged businesses which accept BTC don't have such a big influence on their customer to pay with BTC. Most of them would probably stick with their credit card (regardless of a "BTC Accepted Here" - sticker).

A user base (and new user who want to actively use BTC as a currency) are thriving the adoption forwards. Not businesses accepting it as a payment option per se.

This applies to 'normal' transactions.

But maliciously sent transactions which aim to create a double spend do leave transactions inside orphaned blocks which aren't later added to the main chain.

So while the majority of transactions has been added to the mainchain through other blocks, a few have not been added (which are still valid itself in terms signature check).
 

Well, the fees mostly are pretty high and the maximum tradeable amount is low.
It is much easier / more convenient to register at an exchange and buy/sell there.




No. They are not from banks. And these ATM's are not related to banks in any way.
Private businesses/institutions/people buy or build them and deploy them at local places. That's a business model.

Noone can give you an accurate answer to this question.
Generally: A heavily increasing demand with the same supply creates a pump.
And a heavily decreasing demand with the same supply is followed by a dump.

Information is key. But how and where to get the necessary information and how to conclude the state of the market from this information is pure gold.
If anyone would be able to precisely predict the market, posting it in a forum would be the last thing he'd do...




Well.. You buy before and sell after a pump. And you sell before and buy after a dump.
Timing is crucial..

For increased gains, go for leverage trading. You basically borrow money to bet on the price to rise/decline.
If you can predict the market, you get rich. If you can't, you'll probably lose all of your money.

There isn't much to say about it.
Segwit fixes transaction malleability and lets you save fees with your transactions.


Native segwit (bech32, addresses starting with bc1..) might not be accepted at every online site / merchant since not all of them already updated their server to accept this address format.
But it offers a huge 'discount' in fees when sending a transaction.

Nested segwit (p2pkh nested in p2sh; addresses starting with 3..) is accepted everywhere and does also cost less in fees to send a transaction.