If i am not wrong due to segwit2x implement and hard fork now the block size is increase so the transaction will get confirmed very fast and even the fees is also low.
You are wrong. SegWit 2X has NOT been implemented, SegWit was activated, 2X is scheduled for some time in November I believe... And the block size increase part of the hard fork was on the Bitcoin Cash blockchain, not the Bitcoin blockchain. It is essentially a "supply and demand" equation. Currently, there are not a lot of transactions waiting to be confirmed (aka low demand), so you don't have to compete to get your transaction into a block (effectively high supply), so you can pay a smaller fee. If 20,000 transactions appear on the network tomorrow (high demand), confirmation times will increase (low supply) and people will start paying more to get priority and fees will increase again. As to "why" the number of transactions dropped so dramatically... Well there are a number of theories... From the "pre/Post-fork Spam attack" having stopped, to everyone calming down after the fork proved to not be the end of the world, to SegWit having saved us all, to the Chinese stopping use of Bitcoin. Personally, I don't believe that SegWit has made any significant difference as yet due to not all wallets supporting it, not many services using it and not many users who understand it or use it. |
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Hi, did you fix your problem? I'm experiencing the same issue after copying the wallet.dat file from an old hard drive:
Your screenshot shows nothing useful... If your wallet is fully synced and showing no coins, then there are most probably no coins in it (or it isn't completely synced) Two things to try... 1. Check the "Help -> debug window -> information" tab... And check that the number of blocks listed is the same as the current block height... 485,834+ 2. Use the "help -> debug window -> console" tab... And use the "listaddressgroupings" command... It will show you all the used addresses and the number of coins in them.. If the number of coins showing doesn't seem right, try checking the addresses that the command outputs on a block explorer like blockchain.info and see if the coins have been moved since the last transaction shown in 2015 |
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Huh... Saw the OPEN sign, came in hoping for the "abandon all hope, manager is a dictator with hidden rules" drama Llama posting... #disappointed  Darkstar, you have your work cut out for you sifting through all the applications!  To all the applicants, good luck, this is a well run and actively monitored campaign... |
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As near as I can figure, you sent 5 BTC directly to a deposit address at an exchange (possibly Bitstamp)... It didn't go anywhere near your Electrum wallet. I suspect you may have "swept" the funds directly to the exchange. For the record, that was the same day (15th August 2015) that the Bitcoin XT fork happened and the Bitcoin price was "only" ~USD$260... (10 days later it was $214, according to this: https://99bitcoins.com/price-chart-history/ ) Does any of this trigger any memory? Perhaps you were cashing out before the fork?  Back then, your 5 coins were maybe $1250-1300... about 1/5th of what the 1.6BTC is worth now! Anyway, what you do with the 1.6BTC you have left is up to you... Do you want to cash it out or keep it? If you want to cash out then just sweep the funds into a new wallet of your choice. If you want to keep it, maybe you should consider moving to a new wallet as well, given the lack of faith in the current private key... If you didn't send the 5BTC then it may have been compromised. |
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Because newbies generally don't have:
a. Useful knowledge to contribute meaningful discussion
b. Enough available characters in their Sig for pretty colourful fancy eye-catching signatures that are a worthwhile investment for the advertiser
c. A proven desire to contribute to the board in a positive manner, which would reflect positively on the advertiser
Also, because there are no hard rules banning "alt" amounts, people could just create hundreds of newbie accounts and spam the shit out of the boards to get paid enough pennies to make $5/week which in some countries is a LOT of money (this already happens to a certain extent)
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Seriously though why do people really care? Is there some big deal about the different ranks?
It's because more senior members are allowed to join the various campaigns and get paid in (alt)coins... Unfortunately, this has led to an increase in account hacking and account sales and sales of hacked accounts... And an influx of so-called "sigSpammers" who just shitpost to try and rank up and/or get paid... As the majority of campaigns are run on a "pay-per-post" basis. Thankfully, a lot of the campaign manager's take their job seriously and will dump the spammers and others who barely speak English and/or just join the end of 4 page threads with a meaningless comment that proves that they either don't know what they are talking about, didn't read the OP and the previous answers, or both.  |
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Glad to hear you (sort of) got it solved. Honestly, it isn't super hard to export the keys... And if you really don't want to use the full Bitcoin Core client and the 150gigs of Blockchain, then you should consider exporting your keys sooner rather than later. The reason for this is that if you do a transaction now that doesn't spend an entire input and generates change that comes back to your wallet... You will then need to sync the WHOLE blockchain for that transaction to be shown properly. I guess it really comes down to whether you want to migrate to a lightweight wallet like Electrum or if you want to stick with Bitcoin Core. If you're in no rush to do anything with your coins in the immediate future, and you have the bandwidth and spare storage capacity, maybe just leave Core syncing, "just in case" you decide to stick with it |
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I had similar problems on Windows 10. Try adding these 2 lines to your bitcoin.conf file... It's in the Bitcoin data directory. If you don't have a bitcoin.conf, just create one with a text editor. addnode=127.0.0.1
server=1
Make sure Bitcoin Core is NOT running and then try using Armory with the "let Armory run bitcoind/Bitcoin Core in the background" option... That seemed to stop the constant connecting/disconnecting for me... I get the green "connected" and Armory is receiving new blocks as bitcoind updates in the background... Note: it may take quite a while for Armory to actually sync up and start doing stuff when you first start it... And this may not actually show on the UI, just give it a few minutes before you try clicking on anything |
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You'll need to post your armorylog.txt and dblog.txt from the Armory data directory... It'll be something like %AppData%\Armory unless you changed it.
Copy/paste the contents of the log files to pastebin.com and the post the Pastebin links here.
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Given that Core is showing as 7 years 43 weeks behind, you haven't synced up to August 2012 when your transactions were made, so Core is treating them as unconfirmed until it has the block data to show them as confirmed and add them to your balance. Click the bar at the bottom that says "7 years and 43 weeks behind" and it should pop up a window that shows exactly where it is synced to. Also, you only need to sync up to Aug 14th 2012 to have all the transactions that your wallet currently knows about... However, there may be newer transactions that your wallet is unaware of... Alternatively, you can export your private keys and import them into Electrum and you'll see your transactions and total balance within moments... "Help -> debug window -> console" Then use either the "dumpprivkey" or "dumpwallet" commands to export your private keys as required... Download Electrum from here: https://electrum.org/#downloadInstall and during wallet creation, select "use public or private keys" option... Then copy/paste your private keys. I'd suggest doing all this offline, so as to minimise the chance of leaking your private keys... Personally, I would create a new HD wallet in Electrum ("create a new seed" option) and then "sweep" the private keys... This will cost a transaction fee as it effectively sends the coins from old addresses to a new address in your new wallet, but offers some benefits like having your wallet backed up with the seed, coins are now on new (unexposed) private keys etc |
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Creating a "receive" transaction in Electrum will not make the exchange send you coins... The idea of the "receive" tab was that you can create an "invoice" and send it to someone who then pays it... It should really be titled "request". It sounds like you have downloaded either the "standalone executable" or the "portable" version of Electrum rather than the full installer... This is why you don't have desktop icons etc. Go here: https://electrum.org/#download and make sure you select the "Windows Installer" (assuming you're using windows) As for your missing transaction, do what ranochigo suggested... Lookup the transaction ID and/or your receive address on a block explorer. |
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398,092 blocks??!? There is your problem... The Blockchain currently has a height of 485,615 blocks!!?! You're missing nearly 90k blocks of data!  I'd suggest shutting down Armory and running BitcoinQT manually and making sure it is fully synced... Then try running Armory again. |
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Send them the link to the transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx/f1f6a0d8a24a6fac35fa6b4f673e5ce3d820c400db73f798b15aa0b9abf52268Along with a screenshot of your wallet with the transaction showing... Then ask them to supply the goods or services you have paid for. The transaction has over 1760 confirmations and has been confirmed since 6th September. They're either trying to scam you or they don't know how their wallet works and/or how to fix it. They say you should never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence... But something seems fishy here. |
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What isn't clear? Step 1. Create a new Electrum wallet. Step 2. Send BTC coins from old wallet #1 to new wallet. Step 3. Send BTC coins from old wallet #2 to new wallet. Step 4. Create a new ElectronCash wallet #1 using seed from old Electrum wallet #1. Step 5. Create a new ElectronCash wallet #2 using seed from old Electrum wallet #2. Step 6. Create a new ElectronCash wallet #3. Step 7. Send BCH coins from ElectronCash wallet #1 to ElectronCash #3. Step 8. Send BCH coins from ElectronCash wallet #2 to ElectronCash #3. You now have new Electrum wallet with all your BTC and ElectronCash wallet #3 that has all your BCH.  |
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This is why you need to write your seed on a piece of paper and put it in a safe place.
Pretty much every single HD wallet, that utilises seed mnemonics for recovery, advises you to do this when setting up your wallet and checking you have written it down correctly.
Pretty much every guide about using HD wallets that use seed mnemonics advise that you do it.
Hopefully your loss will act as a precautionary tale for at least one person who sees this and immediately goes and writes down their seed and stores it in a safe place before their computer/tablet/phone dies...
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Due to the "space" character in the directory names... Will Armory require the path to be enclosed in quote marks? Ie. "F:\Bitcoin Core"... Or will it work without them?
I've not tried, because my custom directory is just: E:\Bitcoin
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Or you can actually just go to the "coins" tab and select the exact coins you want to use... Ctrl+click each UTXO you want to include, then right click and select "spend"...
Honestly, the coin control options (like the fee options) in Electrum are pretty comprehensive!
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So as near as I can tell from looking at the address(es)... The Casascius bar was initially funded with 0.001 BTC in early 2013... Nothing much happened until December 2013 when someone added around 0.008 to it Then it got REALLY busy on the 1st April 2014... There were five deposits, totalling about 7.2 BTC onto the bar. Then a year passes and there were a couple of withdraws (approximately 0.6 BTC) in May 2015... Leaving about 6.6 BTC on the bar. Following that, one final withdrawal from the Casascius in August 2015 of a nice round 5BTC... This left 1.6 BTC on the bar as "change"... 1.6636573 BTC to be exact. If you still have the private key, you should be able to import or sweep those funds into a wallet. The blockchain doesn't lie... Those coins are still on that address belonging to the bar! As for what happened to the other funds that were sent out... You had 0.01 goto an address (15FyEELVAzyKiWNQA888SDPDyZdB1Czrqj) that then looked like it paid some funds out... 0.002 and 0.0079... I'd guess 0.002 and the 0.0079 was change. Both the outputs are "unspent" so haven't been touched since 2015. The 0.6 that got sent out to (19sf373NoDfkv85JaA2Cp7s3L9GNViFQmM) was then combined with another UTXO and sent to this mysterious "3KYEMZfWaGSsNKj8ypR9xLzYmUDQyGeMFG" address. A similar thing happened with the 5BTC that was shifted after being sent from the bar... It was sent on to the "3KYEMZfWaGSsNKj8ypR9xLzYmUDQyGeMFG" address as well... I'm going to guess that the "3KYEM" address is an exchange or gambling site or something... It has had a total of 9245 BTC sent to it over the years... The last transaction, emptying the address, was in February of 2016.... The "19sf3" and the "1EY6X" address appear to be deposit address for the exchange. The, albeit very unreliable, Bitcoin "who's who" website seems to think that it is a Bitstamp wallet, so that would tie in nicely with my exchange theory. Relatively difficult to trace from this point, as the coins are then effectively mixed, sold, exchanged to altcoins etc... It should be noted that there is a time gap of the 0.6 being sent from the bar and ending up in the "3KYEM" address and the 5BTC being sent from the bar and ending up in the "3KYEM" address of about 3 months!!?!... So it doesn't look like it was hacked or stolen. So, did you ever have an account on Bitstamp? TL;DR - bar still has 1.6 BTC on it... Other funds seem to have been moved to an exchange (possibly Bitstamp) |
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