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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: wallet.dat appears to be corrupt - MAC OS 10.8.3 on: April 02, 2013, 04:22:42 AM
Ok - I did exactly as you told me and this is the message I'm getting now:

2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: wallet.dat appears to be corrupt - MAC OS 10.8.3 on: April 02, 2013, 03:49:16 AM
Yes - I did make a backup - and one that is encrypted too.  And damned if I know what to do with it.

Can you help please?  Here's what the backup looks like in my Finder.



And I'm using the latest version of Bitcoin-Qt for Mac. 
3  Other / Beginners & Help / wallet.dat appears to be corrupt - MAC OS 10.8.3 on: April 02, 2013, 02:17:22 AM
I'm trying to get my wallet.dat data back and everytime the rescan is almost complete, I get this error message.



I deleted everything and downloaded the dmg file again and them replaced the wallet from a backup and I'm still getting this message.

At this point, I want to use Blockchain and just want to figure out how to get my BTC out of this wallet.

Can anyone help me please?
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Official Newbie BitInstant Support Thread (Active Customer Support) on: March 25, 2013, 07:49:53 PM
Everything is fine? Shkiser, I would at least wait till all these people here got there screwed orders reolved.

Yankee, I wrote you a pm which you haven't answered. In fact the only answer I got so far is a quick email from George Mandrik after a LONG wait, Telling me what I suspected:

You currently don't have funds at btc-e (and who knows where else)! Yet you happily processed my Mt-Gox coupon and took the money. I specifically refreshed the btc-e site so I would place my order when the funds were in. However, it seems you just let everybody put in orders, take their money and THEN check if you actually have the funds to trade. Which you do not. And after countless tries to contact you I get a short note telling me to just wait till you have funds at btc-e again.

Wonderful, I pay 14$ for a service that successfully keeps me from investing my 1000$ when the btc-price fell. How about not taking the money till you get to honor your end of the deal? And how about actually sending me my money before going on the forums and suckering the next guy in by saying everything is fine. It's clearly not. As you said, time is money. At this rate I could have gone through one of btc-e's more obscure methods of depositing myself and it would have been way faster and I would have made a healthy profit.

So, when will the reserves at btc-e be up? I'm getting the feel you're just waiting for somebody to sell dollars at btc-e that you can then pass along to your waiting "customers" (don't feel like I'm treated that way).

!DON'T SEND THEM ANY MORE MONEY TILL THEY PROVE THEY CAN ACTUALLY PROCESS ALL THE OPEN ORDERS!

Order ID   6e8573ab-1408-43e3-814f-f5830698fa37

P.S. You should really waive the fees on all the messed up orders. We paid more than enough with time.

Whew.......  I'm glad I saw this.  Being new at this, I'm really struggling with how to make it work.  And seeing something like this makes me want to just give up.   Sad
5  Other / Beginners & Help / Spam from this forum is killing my email - damnit on: March 25, 2013, 06:40:26 AM
Since registering here, spam is nonstop in my email.

Damnit.
6  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mac OS X Time Machine and wallet backup on: March 24, 2013, 11:36:38 PM
I'm trying to figure out how to back up my wallet - and I'm using a MAC OS 10.8.3

I know nothing about Time Machine or encryption so I'm asking for your forgiveness in advance.

Is there anyone with patience who is using MAC OS 10.8.3 who can walk me through a step-by-step way of securing my BTC wallet while still allowing me to use it?

Thanks in advance.
7  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 09:46:03 PM
I mine with 2 nVidia GPUs, I am in it for the long run - I expect "final" price at about 50 000 USD per BTC. So I don't care if I am not profitable right away, I can wait for it. Bitcoins are my pension fund :-) Btw I started mining in june 2011, till now I have 12,5 BTC

Thank you for reading and responding.  So you've been at this a little less than two years and you have 12.5 total BTC, right?  or did you mean 12,500 BTC?   Couldn't tell for given you wrote "12,5 BTC". 

At $50/share, 12.5 BTC is $625 USD.  I hope you're really, really young because funding your retirement this was will take a long, long time.

Unless I'm missing something?

He told he believes 1 BTC will be worth 50 000 USD in future. So, although now unprofitable he may mine like 20 BTC total which may be worth 1 000 000 USD someday  Wink


  Oh my ...... ok.  Thanks for the clarification.  Wow.....   I hope he's right too.   Wink
8  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 08:04:13 PM
I mine with 2 nVidia GPUs, I am in it for the long run - I expect "final" price at about 50 000 USD per BTC. So I don't care if I am not profitable right away, I can wait for it. Bitcoins are my pension fund :-) Btw I started mining in june 2011, till now I have 12,5 BTC

Thank you for reading and responding.  So you've been at this a little less than two years and you have 12.5 total BTC, right?  or did you mean 12,500 BTC?   Couldn't tell for given you wrote "12,5 BTC". 

At $50/share, 12.5 BTC is $625 USD.  I hope you're really, really young because funding your retirement this was will take a long, long time.

Unless I'm missing something?
9  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 07:01:54 PM
I'm just trying to acquire bitcoins. 

I'm willing to 'work' for them - just trying to figure out the best way within my means.
10  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 06:24:17 PM
Where do they get it if they don't mine for it? 

Let me guess - pay for it with USD or some other fiat currency?

That's not going to happen for me given I'm paycheck to paycheck and my mortgage holder won't accept bitcoin for my monthly payment.

11  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 06:12:44 PM
Ok - I won't bother doing any of this anymore.  Looks like I won't be playing in the Bitcoin world at all then.

Pfft.....   

How the hell does Bitcoin expect to grow if it can't/won't be attractive to those of us who support the 'cause' but can't compete with the techno experts?

Long term viability to the average member of the masses is critical to Bitcoin's - or any alternative currency's - success.
12  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 05:46:15 PM
No - GPU (I think?).  Have two workers; one using GeForce 9400 and one using GeForce 9600 according to the GUIMiner info I'm seeing.

I'm no computer geek and frankly, don't even understand the whole bitcoin concept so am asking forgiveness in advance if I say anything too stupid.

 Tongue
13  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 05:40:00 PM
hmmm....  so 'mining' is kinda like Amway in the bitcoin world.

Interesting.............   

Still trying to figure out the allure of all of this.  For me, I love the idea of not supporting the banksters.  I think I've gotten in too late though.
14  Other / Beginners & Help / Mining vs BitVisitor - why bother mining? on: March 24, 2013, 05:35:18 PM
I've been mining through btcmp with two works for a week now.  So far I have 243 'shares' and 0.00117471 'rewards' that I can't take until I get to 0.01.

I've also been visiting BitVisitor sites for 'free' bitcoin and have 0.00103244 BTC in my wallet.

My question is - why do people 'mine' and pay a 2-4% fee if they can get virtually the same amount via BitVisitor? 

And at this rate, I'm thinking I'll get 1.0 bit coins in about 2 months or so.  Of course, I'll probably spend an extra $60/month on electricity for the privilege.

 Huh

Look forward to being enlightened Grin
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