Good to see you managed to get it sorted... Logically, rebuilding and rescanning was always likely to be the best option. Especially if you had made BTC transactions after the fork... That would confuse the hell out of Armory as it tried to use a database built on a different chain with transactions that don't exist on the current chain in use!  Just a shame the price of everything has dumped so much...  Also, for future reference... Try the "edit" button instead of multi posting  I've moved all the free BCH in both wallets today. I think this is the easiest way. Especially if you don't understand computer code. And one more thing when doing an offline transaction. Don't forget to change your offline signing wallet to expert. If you don't the window to choose BCH won't come up. The prices are low now. But when the next big one comes expect 18 times the value of the last little blip of $18,000 per BTC. I'll be glad I waited. |
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I went to the Armory Help button/Rebuild and Rescan Data Base. Took a few hours and now I see the full balance of my wallets as they should be. So I guess I can now send the coins out of the wallet and be done with it.  As Jojo69 suggested I used bitcoin-abc-0.16.1-win64  |
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I have my Armory node online by unchecking the "let Armory run Bitcoin Core in the background" box. Then restarting Armory after starting Bitcoin ABC. Still no balance. So I have to do some type of computer whiz kid trick Or just uninstall and rebuild my Armory Wallets.
Would Rebuild and Rescan Data Bases do it? Or should I completely nuke it?
Oh. It's Friday night. Everyone is out having a big night watching "I Love Lucy" reruns. Crickets............................
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I started up Armory without deleting just for kicks. It shows zero balances and node is offline. When it is fixed will it show a BCC balance?
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Well. My BCH ABC wallet is synchronized.
I guess I'll just uninstall Armory. Delete hidden Armory files. Reinstall Armory. Restore online quick wallet with paper back up. Then go to the offline computer with thumb drive and get data from the offline wallet to the online transmitting computer.
Would it hurt to turn on Armory to see if I can do without all this?
I wonder if I can do this with Bitcoin Gold?
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That worked! sooooo grateful to you for that advise, Thank you. Its in the process of restoring my wallet. And all is right with the world again!
Great! Glad to hear it! The world is a very bad place when your crypto's are stuck in a malfunctioning wallet. Thinking they might be lost forever. You learn a lot about computers if you are using Armory. |
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it was a crass attempt at "taking over" when BCH was first launched and seems to be getting worse.
can you elaborate? NOTE: "Windows" locations used for convenience Instead of installing to a "unique" location and using a "unique" data directory location (for example C:\Program Files\BitcoinABC and C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\BitcoinABC) like all the other "QT" clones do... The BitcoinCash devs deliberately setup the installers for Bitcoin ABC to install to the same default location that Bitcoin Core uses. Specifically C:\Program Files\Bitcoin and C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin. The upshot of this, was that any user that wasn't paying attention, and was just clicking "next-next-next" through the installer and during first run, would end up overwriting their Bitcoin Core install with Bitcoin ABC... furthermore, Bitcoin ABC would "take over" the data directory (ie. Blocks and Chainstate folders etc)... which would effectively "corrupt" the blocks folder making it no longer work with Bitcoin Core... as "invalid" blocks (as far as BTC is concerned) were being added into Blocks folder etc. The Bitcoin Cash camp were trying to be "THE" Bitcoin... instead of accepting their fate as an "altcoin". I suspect this was also why they only added "replay protection" at the 11th hour when it was obvious they were not going to succeed usurping Bitcoin. yes, imo, this would be the much simpler way to do it. if you try to work with a truncated chain terminating at the 8/1/17 fork date like the one HCP is recommending, this means that you have to go back and manually dig out every BTC tx you made when clearing/moving your BTC to Trezor and then construct separate BCH tx's using the same UTXO's in a like for like tx repeat if you will. this is a pain and is the way i'm stuck doing it for now. by my understanding, if you instead sync up an entirely new ABC chain on top of Armory, all your BCH will be on display in the GUI in an up to date fashion thus allowing you to harvest the entire BCH balance in a single tx. at least, that's the way i understand it since i've never done it this way. someone correct me if i'm wrong.
If you work on a truncated chain and reindex with Bitcoin ABC and then let it finish syncing up to todays date... and then do a "Rebuild and Rescan Databases" in Armory... theoretically, that should really be the same as a complete resync/build using a "from scratch" Bitcoin ABC and Armory... But without needing Bitcoin ABC to sync up to 1st August 2017. At the end of the day, either way should really work... and depending on your syncing speed, a truncated chain may only save a few hours or a day or two... If speed is not a concern, then a "clean" install is probably less likely to cause you issues I uninstalled Bitcoin Core and and then deleted Bitcoin hidden files. Installed (bitcoin-qt) Bitcoin ABC wallet. Now down loading the block chain. Should be done in 2 days. I guess I'll just turn on Armory when it's done downloading and hope it just works. If not I'll have to rebuild Armory? |
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Why no one can track down the hackers who stole around $500million worth of NEM from japanese exchange. how do you keep your cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrency is safe, and what makes it so is the ability for addresses to change after very transaction, and also you are able to store you balance offline on a hardware wallet to avoid the online ones, online wallets have a 2FA which sends you a verification SMS containing a password each time you or somone logs in from a different IP to your wallet, and if you are keeping your crypto offline than the only way a person could hack you is by sending a virus or a keyloger to your computer. It turns out, if a virus got to the computer and hackers hacked with it my account and brought tokens, then I can not do anything? How then to secure yourself? Never leave any significant amount of crypto currency on an exchange. Especially if they aren't ensured. If they get hacked or steal your coins and claim they are hacked you lose. As soon as you make the trade get your coins off the exchange . Keep your coins in a hardware wallet like Trezor for example. |
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"C:\Users\CJ\AppData\Roaming\Armory
Delete the Armory file. But you will have to reinstall and use your paper backup to restore the online quick wallet. If you have an offline wallet it has to be updated to the latest level as the transmitter computer.
One more thing. If you're installing the offline wallet. You just have to go to the offline computer with a thumb drive to get the data and bring it over to the online computer. You won't need to use the paper backup. And it will be much faster.
I made the mistake of using the "off line" paper back up on the "on line" computer.
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Do I have to remove the regular Bitcoin Core wallet first? When I try to install the ABC wallet it says data corrupted do you want to re synch? That means it's probably trying to use the BTC block chain?
No, you don't need to remove Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin ABC (by design) attempts to usurp the data directories that Bitcoin Core uses... it was a crass attempt at "taking over" when BCH was first launched and seems to be getting worse. When installing Bitcoin ABC, be VERY careful about where it attempts to install itself. By default, it will attempt to overwrite Bitcoin Core in the "Program Files\Bitcoin" directory... and also try to take over your Bitcoin data directory when you run it. The latest version seems even MORE determined to do this... a fresh install of 0.16.2 does not even prompt you where your data directory should go, it just automatically tries to use the Bitcoin one defined in your registry, even if it is in a custom location! I would recommend that you copy your Bitcoin Core "data" directory (the one with the wallet.dat and "blocks" folder) to a separate location, then delete all the blkxxxx.dat and revxxxx.dat files that are number 951 or HIGHER... and point Bitcoin ABC at this new data directory using the -datadir=path\to\new\folder commandline argument... That should put it before the fork, and ready to sync up just the BCH portion of the chain. I just want to keep things simple. I probably won't be using Bitcoin Core block chain in the future as I now am using a hardware wallet. All coins have been moved away from Armory and Bitcoin Core. So wouldn't it be simpler to just uninstall and delete all Bitcoin core and block chain. Then install a BCH ABC wallet and let it do whatever it wants? I don't really care how long it takes to re-download the block chain. yes, imo, this would be the much simpler way to do it. if you try to work with a truncated chain terminating at the 8/1/17 fork date like the one HCP is recommending, this means that you have to go back and manually dig out every BTC tx you made when clearing/moving your BTC to Trezor and then construct separate BCH tx's using the same UTXO's in a like for like tx repeat if you will. this is a pain and is the way i'm stuck doing it for now. by my understanding, if you instead sync up an entirely new ABC chain on top of Armory, all your BCH will be on display in the GUI in an up to date fashion thus allowing you to harvest the entire BCH balance in a single tx. at least, that's the way i understand it since i've never done it this way. someone correct me if i'm wrong. Yes this seems like the way to do it. Anyone else? I want to know before wasting any time spinning my wheels. And would it also help to first remove Armory also? That way Armory would maybe lock on to the ABC program? |
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If you have a paper back up you're ok. You probably have a corrupted Armory file in the"hidden" files. You need to delete those files also. Then use the paper backup to restore your Armory Wallets. You're computer can be configured to show the hidden files.
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Do I have to remove the regular Bitcoin Core wallet first? When I try to install the ABC wallet it says data corrupted do you want to re synch? That means it's probably trying to use the BTC block chain?
No, you don't need to remove Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin ABC (by design) attempts to usurp the data directories that Bitcoin Core uses... it was a crass attempt at "taking over" when BCH was first launched and seems to be getting worse. When installing Bitcoin ABC, be VERY careful about where it attempts to install itself. By default, it will attempt to overwrite Bitcoin Core in the "Program Files\Bitcoin" directory... and also try to take over your Bitcoin data directory when you run it. The latest version seems even MORE determined to do this... a fresh install of 0.16.2 does not even prompt you where your data directory should go, it just automatically tries to use the Bitcoin one defined in your registry, even if it is in a custom location! I would recommend that you copy your Bitcoin Core "data" directory (the one with the wallet.dat and "blocks" folder) to a separate location, then delete all the blkxxxx.dat and revxxxx.dat files that are number 951 or HIGHER... and point Bitcoin ABC at this new data directory using the -datadir=path\to\new\folder commandline argument... That should put it before the fork, and ready to sync up just the BCH portion of the chain. I just want to keep things simple. I probably won't be using Bitcoin Core block chain in the future as I now am using a hardware wallet. All coins have been moved away from Armory and Bitcoin Core. So wouldn't it be simpler to just uninstall and delete all Bitcoin core and block chain. Then install a BCH ABC wallet and let it do whatever it wants? I don't really care how long it takes to re-download the block chain. |
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I found that you sometimes have to uninstall the wallet. But their are hidden folders that sometimes are corrupted. So you have to configure your computer to allow hidden files and folders to be seen. Then delete all the hidden Armory files. But you have to have a paper backup.
With Armory you have to be patient. If you turn off the computer while it is still trying to shut down you may damage the data. For best results I would open up the Bitcoin Core. Let it synch. Then close it down and open Armory.
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So. I have moved all my BTC off of my ARMORY wallet. I'm trying to extract the BCH from the ARMORY wallet. I'm using Trezor as my heart can't take anymore of this. Should I 1st make an attempt of putting ARMORY into advanced mode and signing for the BCH. Or should I download the BCH ABC wallet. Remove completely Bitcoin core including hidden files. Then install the BCH ABC and somehow point Armory to the ABC node? you have to run Armory on top of a synced and running ABC node, review this thread some. Do I have to remove the regular Bitcoin Core wallet first? When I try to install the ABC wallet it says data corrupted do you want to re synch? That means it's probably trying to use the BTC block chain? |
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So. I have moved all my BTC off of my ARMORY wallet. I'm trying to extract the BCH from the ARMORY wallet. I'm using Trezor as my heart can't take anymore of this. Should I 1st make an attempt of putting ARMORY into advanced mode and signing for the BCH. Or should I download the BCH ABC wallet. Remove completely Bitcoin core including hidden files. Then install the BCH ABC and somehow point Armory to the ABC node? |
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I wonder if the BCH ABC wallet will also work with Bitcoin? BCH has turned out to be a valuable coin. Maybe more valuable than BTC . |
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The other way, if you don't want to figure out (as I did not) about rewinding the chain is to get an ABC node running and run Armory on top of that. I did a write up late in this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2070058.0 detailing the process that worked for me If worse comes to worse I will probably use this method. Just download the BCH ABC wallet (version that works). AFTER 28 hours of downloading the block chain. Then restore Bitcoin Armory wallet on the same PC. After removing all BTC (in case of train wreck). Let it sync and then you have the BCH? |
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Any coins you did not move, you can use the BTC DB to create a tx for, that will be valid on the BCH chain. So the coins (I didn't move) that are still in the Armory wallet. Can I still use the expert mode, check the BCH box and send the remaining BCH coins to Coinbase or another BCH wallet? Or just by sending a small amount of BTC I have made all the remaining coins unable to separate BTC from BCH? Without some long complicated process? |
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check the BCH box when signing to move the coins.
That only really works if you have not moved any BTC post fork or rewind your chain back. So if I moved a very small amount out of my online Armory Wallet. And haven't touched any of the offline coins. I have to go through some complicated process for both wallets? |
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I managed to restore my Armory Wallet to a new computer with a larger hard drive. It's working again for now. I think I will wait until the price of BCH goes back up then send it to Coinbase to cash out. Or to a new BCH wallet yet to be installed.
Seems simple and straight forward if you keep it simple. Just temporarily put Armory in expert mode and then check the BCH box when signing to move the coins.
And then later Goat Pig will add Bitcoin Gold?
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