I've suddenly started having this same problem, both on a linux mint and a win7. I've backed up my wallet.dat and started both at command line with -reindex. Catching up on 5 years and 28 weeks now.

I live in Ecuador. Bitmain sent mine with DHL and listed it on the invoice as a "Video Game Gateway" and listed the value about $160. Ecuadorian Customs only charged about $16 for the duty, which DHL covered and then charged me $10 for the service. So I only paid $26 more than the price of the miner and there was no delay in delivery.

On the other hand, I ordered a PSU from Tiger Direct and Customs not only held it up for a month in Guayaquil, they also charged me an additional $100 on top of the $120 price plus $50 delivery charge!

I'm in Ecuador, so bitmaintech listed my S1 as a "Video Game Gateway" and around $160, so Aduana (Customs) here inspected it, didn't know what it was, so they only put a $16 duty on it. DHL paid it for me and then charged me $10 for the courtesy. So in all, I only paid $26 for duty/fee and was thrilled it didn't get hung up for a month.

I ordered a 1000W power supply from Tiger Direct for about $120 plus about $45 in shipping, and not only did customs hold it up for about a month in Guayaquil, I had to pay $100 tax on the damn thing. Customs... what a racket!   

I DO! will pm for details

It is strange.

I forgot to add that I'd backed up all of my addresses to a Blockchain.info wallet last fall, so checking my balance on there was how I figured out that my entire balance had been sent to one of my old addresses. I created a new address in the hard drive client and sent them back to myself... other than getting charged a transaction fee, the transaction was listed as "sent btc to yourself".

I have been using the satoshi client from the beginning and have several backups of my .dat files and even cloned my wallet onto a usb device a couple of years ago. Its been working fine having a wallet on my hard drive and on the usb, I simply load one or the other periodically and make sure it is up to date. Last night, I was booking a trip on cheapair and spent about 3.47 btc from my satoshi client (version 0.8.5 beta) from the usb backup... it took a bit for it to sync, but no problem.

This morning, I looked at my 'overview' and saw that the 3.47 transaction was listed twice and my confirmed balance was listed as double what it should have been.  One of the transactions shows 0 confirmations and checking the transID on blockchain.info, I saw that it is not found.

Doing a bit more research with the wallet addresses on blockchain, I found that the client had basically taken my entire balance, sent the 3.47 on to the address provided by cheapair and the rest back to one of my other address stored with the client. The extra transaction, for some reason, is listed on the transactions tab with a "?" and won't go away.

I closed that version and opened the one stored on my hard drive, from which the usb was cloned.... it showed a single transaction for the 3.47 and the balance is what it should be less that amount.

So, after catching my breath from thinking someone had sent me that much bitcoin, I'm wondering what happened? I've never had this error occur before and am confused about it, but more importantly, how do I remove the extra "?" transaction from the history and thus return the balance to normal?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

I have to admit, I've always been pretty amused by the butthurtness against BFL... but I'll explain why:

I came across a guy on ebay selling pre-orders for jalapenos at $600 bucks as early as July 2012... after doing a bit of research on the new "ASIC" devices that were being imagined, I looked up BFL's site directly and saw they were selling pre-orders for $150. I thought, "this is as big of a gamble as the $400 I spent on buying bitcoin at $6 and now its at $10, so what the hell."

Sure, I saw they were supposed to ship in October and it was August 2012 at the time, but I had just sold a bunch of crap on ebay and had some paypal money sitting around. So I went for it.

Since I was/am a believer in the future value of Bitcoins, there was no way I was going to spend (and potentially lose) 15 bitcoins on it, but $150? Sure, that's essentially nothing since it won't be worth $150 if spent later.

October came and went..... and I'd almost forgotten about the purchase. Then came the beginning of the great mania of early 2013 when the price started climbing....$20, $30, $40, $65.... that's when I started looking at what happened to that $150 I'd spent.... and that was when I first found the people FREAKING OUT that they'd sunk bitcoins into their pre-orders and those little devices were now costing them $1000.

"Huh," I thought, "...well, at least I'm only out $150 in play-money from paypal."

Then towards the end of May, I got an email from BFL asking me if I wanted to upgrade my device to 7.5gh/s for an extra $100... I quickly wrote back asking if it would change my place in the shipping cue.... to which they responded, "No, you are still scheduled to ship at the end of May." So another $100 of paypal money went to BFL.  So along with shipping, I was in for a grand total of $265.

Just as promised, my box arrived about a week later.... 10 months after I gambled on a preorder.... and now 8 months later, it has mined me about 11 bitcoins. Of course, it doesn't generate that much now... but if one is long on bitcoin, then even .002 a day is something.

I've remained silent about my positive experience with BFL since there are still people who are pretty butthurt about their unsuccessful gambling, but I figure now is as good of a time as any to say: THANKS BFL!

I added theturtle1983 ppa as listed on the first page and I have the one maintained by unit3 added already, but it updated from what I was running to v. 3.3.0... I can't seem to get it to upgrade further. Perhaps 3.3.0 is called for with mint 13maya with xfce. (side note...since I ran all the updates this afternoon when I started this, the windows that open are missing the 'minimize/maximize/close' icons and I no longer have any control over their size...I also a missing 3 of the 4 desktops the settings say I have. weird) But as long as I'm getting some mining done, I think I'm going to have to leave it for the night and come back to it tomorrow.

ahhh.... okay, I ran it simply with sudo bfgminer to see what would happen and they are there now:




Now that they are mining...I'll go back and look over some of the tweeking posts in this thread I've been skipping.  Thanks for your help.

 

head=in over




sorry...I'm still learning linux, and this machine is the only one with maya xfce because of its lack of other resources so I hardly ever mess around with it except for bfgminer.

bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://us3.eclipsemc.com:3333 -u xxxxx -p xxxxx -S bigpic:/dev/ttyACM0 -D -d?
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] setrlimit: Soft fd limit not being changed from 1024 (FD_SETSIZE=1024; hard limit=4096)                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] Started bfgminer 3.3.0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] Loaded configuration file /home/oldfatgod/.bfgminer/bfgminer.conf                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0002 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0002 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 1d6b:0001 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 0403:6014 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 15d9:0a41 - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 03eb:204b - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] ft232r_scan: Found 03eb:204b - not a ft232r                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] Acquired exclusive advisory lock on /dev/ttyUSB0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] BFL: Attempting to open /dev/ttyUSB0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:39] Found BitForce device on /dev/ttyUSB0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   DEVICE: BitFORCE SC                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   FIRMWARE: 1.0.0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   MINIG SPEED: 7.49 GH/s                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   PROCESSOR 3: 14 engines @ 259 MHz                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   PROCESSOR 7: 15 engines @ 264 MHz                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   ENGINES: 29                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   FREQUENCY: 266 MHz                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   XLINK MODE: MASTER                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   CRITICAL TEMPERATURE: 0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   XLINK PRESENT: NO                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Do not have user privileges required to open /dev/ttyACM0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Do not have user privileges required to open /dev/ttyACM0                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Do not have user privileges required to open /dev/ttyACM1                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Do not have user privileges required to open /dev/serial/by-id/usb-BFMG_Bitfury_BF1_A4931313633351F06182-if00                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Do not have user privileges required to open /dev/serial/by-id/usb-BFMG_Bitfury_BF1_A493131363335141A2B0-if00                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0002                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0002                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 1d6b:0001                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 0403:6014                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 15d9:0a41                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 03eb:204b                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Not a ZTEX device 03eb:204b                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40] Devices detected:                   
 [2013-11-14 13:36:40]   0. BFL 0  (driver: bitforce_queue)                   
1 devices listed

uhh.... where do I put that? at the end of the full command?

Tried it... same result: bfgminer fires up and the jalapeno is hashing away...no more devices found.

Here is what bfgminer looks like when I first fire it up using the above:


So it 'sees' it....but it still isn't 'using' it.

At first I tried a hub, but couldn't find its power cord, so I plugged them  directly into a USB expansion card installed on the machine.

Yes, I found ttyAMC0 and ttyAMC1 in my /dev.

I've been starting bfgminer with bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://us3.eclipsemc.com:3333 -u xxxxx -p xxxx -S bitfury:/dev/ttyACM0

Hello everyone.... I just got my 2 new blue furys yesterday and I see after 26 pages here, I'm pretty late to the party-- but I'd appreciate some help...

I've already set up bfgminer on a box with Linux Mint 13 Maya w/XFCE4 and have been mining with a Jalapeno since May...

I've tried the simple ways I've found here to add in my new pieces, but bfgminer is still not finding them.  I've found references to assigning COM ports and whatnot....and I remember having to do something like that to make my machine see my Jalapeno, but now I can't find the threads or instructions I used then, so a little help finding the correct post would be GREATLY APPRECIATED. (I'm slowly making my through these posts, but haven't found the 'magic' one yet.)

Thanks in advance.

I'm using mint 13 xfce and I'm pretty sure the drivers are installed, but when I run bfgminer, it just shows the CPUs hashing... how do I get it to see the USB where the jalapeno is plugged?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220322.0


I wish there was a way for us to make the "brrrrrrrding!" sound from Mario when referring to mBTC and uBTC or individual satoshi, our problems would be solved.  

I thought as much, but feel better for making sure b4 committing.  Thanks!

For prior versions, I was able to download and extract the new one, and then move the .dat files over to the corresponding folders.... that way, when I opened the wallet client, it didn't have to re-download the entire blockchain and everything worked fine.

So my question with 0.8.1 is whether I can do the same as before, or is there something unique about it that I should let it reload the blockchain and just import my wallet and addresses?

Thanks in advance. 

oh, and a side thought.... any suggestions on good 'how-to' guides and specs for newbies for setting up a USB wallet?  Thanks.

I found this earlier: http://www.scribd.com/doc/110005258/Buy-Bitcoin-via-Paypal-Paysafecard-Credit-Card-Ukash ; but have not tried it yet.

WARNING: DON'T CLICK ON THE TINYURL LINK!  I've already run it through a url xray and pulled out that its a link to https://www.virwox.com/ by way of a cookie site.

Basically, you can buy the cash they use in Second Life with a cc or paypal, then buy bitcoin with those.  There are some transaction fees involved so read the FAQ and figure out the premium you are paying.

Good luck.