yeah. That is something I'd like to know too. How can I get the list of those hundred addresses so I can send to them without having to go to my airgapped machine opening my client and generate/copy/paste each address one at a time to a notepad file?

heheee... thanks!  

Thank goodness I AM NOT HUMAN!

Grrrrrr.....

hmm... rubberhose?  don't get it... sorry.

I wouldn't loose sleep over this.  There will be MANY things like this in the future, just patiently refute things if you can when/where you can.

I am learning everyday, and doing this on my own.

grrrrrrrr
Chupacabraaaa

Wow, this worked!  Thank you.  I made a new wallet offline.  That gave me an address. I put it on a txt file on my pendrive, and transferred on another computer everything there!

And I checked block explorer, and the 3 sends to that one address show up, showing the total amount. 

Thanks!

Now that is my VAULT... i used ZIP to encrypt the offline wallet using AES 256 with a 20 character sentence password, and uploaded it to my gmail, and dropbox. 

If I delete the backups, and in the future someone sends money to one of those accounts because I emailed them that particular address "for fun, testing purposes" or whatever, I guess those funds will be lost for ever.

Also, I noticed that when I go to view the list of addresses I see a different number in each of the backups. And some of the addresses are not in my address book even though they are ones I received BTC with (I can see them on the main screen of bitcoin.exe)

Why is that? 

Thank you for all your answers too.  I am honestly still shaking from what is going on with Mt Gox.  I had 10 btc there, most of the rest was transfered out and backed-up (multiple times  ) 

I haven't consolidated things, yet.  But once I do, I will tell you how it went.

All the clear, and simple explanations helped me a lot here.  Thanks.

These are all really nice.  Thanks!

...but now I must ask:  What do I tell my friend studying philosophy, who has some BTC (due to my convicing him to buy some)?  He doesn't know Ubuntu, and actually I have never used it either.

Please, someone, put a one click, one button, safe, secure download on www.bitcoin.org so all this can be done by my philosopher friend... and myself

Sorry to be only a 'Hunter' and not a wizz!


---- i know this is for the Bitcoin millionares who were the rightful early adopters and tech-savy super geeks

But what are the rest to do, who put in a few hundred $$$ worth, and are just as fearful to have their little wallet stolen?

Thanks for the reply, my funds did show up just as the BTC crashed down towards $10... I got 'in' at around $16... still better than $25, so the long wait actually was good for me

I wish you made it about 7 hours longer   hehehee  that would have been even better.

I know you are busy, so I just kept waiting, and was patient, and only sent you one email, which wasn't responded to.  Perhaps you could have an automated message saying:

"Thanks for the email, we'll get to your query soon..."

or something like that... otherwise I was just worried you are attacked, and robbed of all my email

I love the BTC idea and tech, but my 'normal economy' friends would say:

"AHA!" to what you just mentioned above, and also say:

"You see, that is exactly IT... it is the VELOCITY of money that makes for 'rich' countries and economies.  Those who spend their money, by force or by nature end up way better off than those 'poor' countries and economies where people "value their money more and save it"..."

Any comments?

--okay, so I have a quote within a quote... you know what I mean

Thanks DamienBlack and aeroSpike!

I kinda thought that is how it all works, but I was a bit confused, and nervous.  I will do as you instructed above, but I will wait one more day, just to see if anyone else chimes in with any other good ideas with regards to this.

Thanks for answering, they are backups of different wallet files. There were about 3-4 different wallets which were used to send/receive a few times each.  And I made backups of each sporadically so now I have about 10-12 different backups total.  I just want to make sure I don't screw up.

I am reading DamienBlack's post.  If I understand correctly I have nothing to worry about.

If I do try and spend more than the actual amount in a wallet (backup) will it spend what it can, or will it only spend if I waited for the wallet amount to update, and spend the exact amount that it says?

And what if it actually has more than my backup shows (while it is updating), and I spend less... and then later more will show up or something?

[I know this is a bit convoluted, but it is really what I did, and I am getting a bit nervous that I will screw up somehow, I remember reading that someone lost 9000 BTC because he didn't have the most recent backup after he spent 1 BTC and his total became ZERO because he was missing the key to the address that was supposed to show that 1 BTC.   Apparently it was the problem that the system sent his total wallet amount, and the receiver got the 1 BTC and the remainder had nowhere to come back to]

Dear Techies,

Please explain, how these wallet.dat files work.

for example:

I bought some bitcoins now 4 different times.  I also have been 'playing' and demonstrating the bitcoin client to family and friends.

So, because I read that it is important to backup your most recent wallet file, and really hide your 'big stash' which for me is about 100 BTC... I now have about 7 different backups, with different times and dates and amounts.

Some contain 0.24 BTC, some contain 100 BTC, and some have 22.34 BTC.

The confusion is that as I was backing them up into an encrypted ZIP file, I named each wallet##.##.zip file where the ##.## shows the total at the time of backup.  I saved these files in 3 different places, and so now I have about 10 files with different amounts and I am not sure which goes with which because some were brand new wallets, some were backups of those I kept adding to, and playing with, and saving at different times.  Is there a way to make sure I don't spend from the wrong one and invalidate another 'backup' of the same wallet, and somehow loose bitcoins.

or

Am I safe to try and spend all the backups into one MAIN (new) wallet.dat file and collect everything into one?  (and those that I double spend will simply not work or something)

Please help!

Thanks

T
Thanks, but still some experience and suggestions for Liberty Reserve would be nice to see.

In what order buy transactions are processed?

Like, if I have a buy order at $30, and so do you... who gets it, if there is only 1 sell at $30.

or

If I have a buy order at $30 for 100 BTC, and you have a buy order at $30 for 50 BTC and someone wants to sell 25 BTC at $30, who gets it?

Same here. 

Please direct anyone who has used and figured out LR to this thread:
https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=14969.msg200526#msg200526

Wow, what a 'RUSH' to get a 'thank you' !!!  It is honestly a nice feeling: So THANK YOU!

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Yeah, I am new here, and these are my first post on a forum/blog ANYWHERE.

This kinda makes me understand Salman Khan of the KhanAcademy.org  (see his videos, and presentations)  Awesome!

...so, thanks again... and I hope someone answers us 

I have to agree!  I would much rather be 'swindled' by my buddy computer/tech enthusiasts than a bunch of banking goons and silver manipulators. 

...or just have a Kit-Kat ... and offer one to the Baron too... or (if you're really lucky) he'll offer you one

I am trying to not have to worry about the delay in Mt. Gox's SEPA transfer, and perhaps Liberty Reserve purchase through another exchange may be easier (Nanaimo?)

But I just can't figure out how to use Liberty Reserve Exchanges... actually, I just don't know which exchange to TRUST

Huge difficulty in sifting through all the options.

which LR exchange do you use?  How do you verify their "trustability"?

I would like to try depositing some CAD or USD or EURO

Which is best for each?  Anyone have any experience?