I have been thinking about that but was initially looking at bitcoin core and was turned off by the massive amounts of data needed to download the entire blockchain. Its not too big of an issue as I have a relatively fast connection, but Im unsure if I can move the files to a HDD or whether it needs to install to a main drive which is a SSD for me. The issue is that it also acts as a node and may cause issues with my capped upload speeds.

The Ledger Wallet HW.1 is only €15 plus about €5 delivery so its not too much of spend.

I have looked at electrum but their centralised servers are a downside.

Would you recommend going with bitcoin core?

Im just trying to find the best balanced btc wallet.

Thanks again

If the device is lost or locked after three invalid pin attempts it wipes its contents and requires recovery.

However the recovery or import into another wallet is still be reliant upon the chrome app.

Is this correct?

Hi I'm relatively new to btc and I have some questions relating to moving my btc's from an online wallet to cold storage.

The majority of my btc's are stored in an online blockchain wallet however I had a few with mt gox and everyone knows how that went.

Although the blockchain online wallet is very secure and I have two factor authentication set, I'm still a little uneasy with having my bitcoins stored with someone else, and that's why I'm looking at cold storage with the Ledger Wallet.

I guess the issue I have is that although the btc's are stored on the HW.1 device itself, transactions are still reliant on the google chrome app and transactions are still run through their API server.

My question is that say Ledger Wallet ceases to exist, their chrome app is pulled and their server is shutdown where would that leave you with the btc's stored on the device?

Thanks

Hi

The transactions showing in blockchain are unconfirmed.

There seems to be two types of transactions not confirming:

1) Sweeping of funds from the private key import.
2) Transfers I made from wallet to wallet.

Besides having a 'normal fee policy - recommended' selected in my Blockchain account I havent paid any addiitional fees on these transactions.

Whats the next step from here?

Hi,

I had some issues with my Blockchain wallet and decided to do a private key import into my other Mt Gox wallet.

The import was successful and from what I can tell from the transactions in my Blockchain account, Mt Gox appears to be sweeping funds.

This started at about 10:00am this morning (five hours ago) and I still have a large number of unconfirmed transactions.

Does anyone know how long it generally takes for BTC to appear in your wallet when Mt Gox is sweeping funds?

Thanks

Anyone know how long a sweep of funds takes before my coins are in my new wallet?

Sure did about two hours ago.

I'll keep monitoring.

piuk, you the man. thanks for the help. +rep

Hi again,

Ive been transferring BTC across from Blockchain to Mt Gox.

Most of the transactions are confirmed and have shown up in my wallet, with a "Mt Gox" address book reference.

Whats a concern is that I have a few large BTC transactions with unfamilair wallet addresses and these arent confirmed.

Amounts are

3.30949 BTC
3.192 BTC
1.11889 BTC

Can anyone explain this?

Thanks

Hi,

Ive got about 250 mBTC transactions and the rest are larger BTC transactions.

1mCs4bfGXxyU7UbZgx1N2eEGpErFMNTwk

Ive just been able to send 0.068 BTC (rounded) to my Mt Gox Wallet.

The second transfer comes up with:

"Insufficent funds.
Vaklue needed 1.00 BTC
Availiable amount 0.06916666"

Do I keep sending 0.068 BTC (rounded) until I can send the full amount?

Ok, AKKA is correct.

It needs to be exported as an unencrypted private key with the key in a 'Bitcoin-Qt Format'.

I copied the "priv" details from the unencrypted key into Mt Gox and recieved confirmation that 10.033648 will be transferred.

Theres still BTC in my Blockchain wallet and none yet in my Mt Gox Wallet.

The wait is on.

Edit:

AKKA, I did a paper wallet export and the private key is listed there as well as you said.

I must be doing something wrong with ther unencrypted key.

In Blockchain:
1) Import>Export
2) Export Unencrpted
3) Select Private Key Format>Base58
4) Copy
5) Paste into Mt Gox>Add Funds>Redeem Private Key
6) Following error from Mt Gox:

Private address added to your virtual wallet with address XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. There was no coins in there, maybe you did a typo?

Hi again.

Firstly thanks for your replies and assistance in helping me resolve this issue. I also hope it helps other new users revolve the same issue if they come across it.

I've decided to go with flower1024's recommendation and start a new wallet with Mt Gox as I need to withdraw 10BTC as soon as possible.

I've done the following:

In my Blockchain wallet
1) Import/Export > Export Encrypted Private Key
2) Copy the private key

In my Mt Gox Wallet
3) Funding options > add funds > redeem private key
4) Paste private key copied from blockchain wallet
5) Redeem key.

Now the following has happened:

6) Blockchain wallet show no BTC and no transactions.
7) Mt Gox wallet shows no BTC.

Have I followed the correct procedure ?

Thanks again.

Thanks for the responses. Much appreciated.

I'm quite new to this and don't understand the fee side of things. Do I pay the fees ?

Also why is my blockchain wallet stating that I only have 0.69 BTC ?

I hope I haven't burnt through my coins with those stupid mBTC transactions (my fault).

Yes, I'm new to this and have been stuffing around in pay per click sites so there's a lot of mBTC transactions.


How long will it generally take to get confirmation and be able to access the 10 BTC?

Hi

I keep getting this message when trying to transfer some bitcoins from my blockchain wallet.

I'm also getting an insufficient funds message (value needed 10.03 BTC, amount available 0.069 BTC) even though I have 10.03 BTC in my wallet.

I don't quite understand what this means or how to resolve it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks