Oh, and also, how much personal information they require and what reporting they do. This is one of the reasons I prefer buying bitcoins from trusted friends and/or localbitcoins.com.

What Espxl said... also, whether they control your private key or not (e.g., Coinbase is all about control.)

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Thanks for the warning.

You're very welcome! Some of my friends work in Blockchain.info customer support, and I'm sure they'll take good care of you there. Good luck!

Sorry to hear that didn't work either.  In my wallet, "custom" is the 2nd option on the left under "Send Money" ... but if you received the same error with shared send, you might receive it with custom send as well. If you try specifying the address with "Custom" Send and still receive the same error, I recommend you look through Blockchain.info's support pages here: https://blockchain.info/wallet/support-pages  or contact them here:  https://blockchain.info/support-desk

Best wishes that this is resolved soon!

First, to see if you have a "Watch Only" address in your wallet, click on "Receive Money" at the top of the blockchain wallet page. It will list all your addresses and mark any "Watch Only" addresses there. If there are no such designations, and assuming you have enough balance of bitcoin to cover your transaction, then you should be fine.

Next, to do a "Custom Send", go to "Send Money" at the top of the wallet page. Then from the list of items on the left side, click on "Custom Send". This will allow you to specify the address to send from, and it also allows you to specify mining fees, public annotations, etc.

Let me know if this works!

I haven't seen that error before. Are you trying to send from a "watch-only" address? Have you tried doing a Custom Send? This allows you to specify which address in your wallet you want to send from. Makes sure it's one that is "live" in your BC wallet.

http://localbitcoins.com is my favorite; I recommend using their escrow service. I've been fortunate to buy bitcoins from trusted friends directly, and I've used localbitcoins.com other times and met some awesome people and a new friend near me.

Where are you located? If you're in the US, Coinbase is also OK, but they're having growing pains and their site is often inaccessible.

I've noticed sometimes with Coinbase it takes a long time to sign in, and sometimes it times out... I'm pretty sure it's just growing pains.

Hello,
I'm posting this here because I don't yet have access to the post in the Technical Support forum.

I registered here about 6 months ago using another email address, and I forgot my password. When I clicked "forgot my password" the system said it would email me. But the email never came. It's been 2 days, and I've checked my spam filters and I've tried clicking to send the email multiple times.

Could someone check to see if there's a problem with recovery emails for lost passwords here?

Thanks.