OK, sorry false alarm. It appears to be arriving slowly. Thanks much. The other transactions were fast, for some reason, and this one was very slow so confused me. Thanks again.

How do I look for the transaction on blockchain.info?
I entered the first characters in the destination address into the search window,
and it said firstbits not found.
Was that the right procedure for search?
The result is a little surprising to me because some other transactions to that destination had succeeded.

However, the status of the transaction on the sending wallet now says: 3 of 6 confirmations, so I am a little less panicky,
I presume it is just taking a long time for some reason.

Thanks for your help.

I was sending bitcoins from wallet1 to wallet2 on the same machine in Bitcoin-QT.
Open Bitcoin-QT with wallet1. Send the bitcoins. close Bitcoin-QT. mv wallet.dat wallet1.dat.
mv wallet2.dat wallet.dat

I did it several times to make sure it was working, then did a relatively large one.
The large one has not arrived!
When I load wallet1, it says it is confirmed with the bitcoins missing, but the top transaction on the list, the big move to the other one, shows zero confirmations. This transaction does appear to show the right address, which was stored in my address book, and had worked in the tests. But it doesn't make any visible progress.
When I load wallet 2, I see no sign of the incoming bitcoins.

Help! What happened? How do I recover this? I have backups at every stage.

I've read that there is malware that specifically infects machines looking for bitcoin wallets and stealing the bitcoins. This is the reason
for offline wallets and the like.
Is there somewhere a list of symptoms your computer would display if it had such malware, so I can check before I load more bitcoins into my wallet?
Like files the malware writes?

Thanks.

I installed Bitcoin-QT on my machine a while ago, and I forgot my password.
So I assume the bitcoin I had in the wallet is lost, until I can remember it? (If that's not true, please somebody let me know.)

My question is:
How do I use  Bitcoin-QT now on that machine (for other bitcoins I have and would transfer in.)
Can I somehow start a new wallet with a new password?

I just fired up a new wallet yesterday, and its been synching for almost 20 hours now.
(1) Is that normal?

(2) That seems a lot longer than the last time I created a new wallet, presumably because there is so much more blockchain to read. So here's my question, assuming bitcoin is successful and there are gazillions of transactions, won't it get to where a new wallet takes weeks to load?
Isn't that a serious business hurdle for BitCoin to overcome? Or is there a technical fix?

Anyone know?

OK, Thanks very much, I did delete everything but wallet.dat and restarted, and it seems to be working so far (busily trying to synch).
Here's my question now: before it was saying (when I look at "About Bitcoin-Qt") that it was version 0.3.something or other.
Now that I deleted everything and restarted, About is saying its 0.8.1
I thought it (from an answer somewhere else) that Bitcoin-Qt wouldn't do an auto-update?

Is this normal?

If I delete everything but wallet.dat, should I try to download an updated version before trying to restart or is it safer to try to restart with the version I have? 
Thanks much.

My Bitcoin-Qt seems to be version 0.3.666-beta. I see that purple news above.  Is that part of the problem?
Should I try downloading a new version? But if I do, can it load my backup?
I'd really be grateful for informed advice.

What do  I do now? I use Bitcoin-Qt. Encrypted. I had just sent a bitcoin and it was synching. The computer froze, and when I restarted it, Bitcoin-Qt won't reopen. It almost comes up and tries to synch and then crashes. I had a backup on flash from before this latest attempt to send and and synch. Can I restore from that? Mac OS.x.10.7.5

A few questions.

(1) Say I already have my wallet on my mac.
I encrypted it. And backed it up. and copied the backup onto some flash drives.
Now I take the flash drive to another mac, and download another copy of the wallet program, I can open the encrypted data from the flash with my password and it will be able to spend it, right?

Or alternatively I'd be able on the other laptop to change the encryption key, so if I was confident that laptop had no malware,  on it I'd be pretty safe, right?

(2) After I do the above, put my data on the flash encrypted, how do I delete the data from the first machine, in case
its hacked by someone who knows my encryption key?

(3) Wouldn't the above protect me securely from someone later getting access with malware to the first machine?

(4) If I wanted to use the first machine, connected to the internet, to occasionally spend some bitcoins, how would I go about leaving it with a small portion of my stash, as a checking account as it were?

Dr. Roberts says "They are trying to save this Federal Reserve policy of negative real interest rates.  You can’t do that if the dollar loses value relative to gold because it implies it should be losing value relative to other currencies.


If the dollar’s exchange value drops, then the price of imports that come in here (to the US) rise.  So you get domestic inflation, and if you have domestic inflation you can’t have zero interest rates, or negative real interest rates.  So the Fed would lose control and that’s the basis of this policy.


They are trying to destroy gold as a (safe) haven from the dollar in order to carry on the Fed’s policy of negative real interest rates.  That is what is driving the illegal policy of selling naked shorts in order to manipulate a market.  If you and I were to do something like this without the government’s instruction or protection, we would be arrested (laughter ensues).  So the fact that it’s illegal, being done by the authorities, tells me that they are seriously worried about the dollar.”

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If you changed gold into BC in these sentences it would make as much sense I think.

BC has natural enemies with deep pockets. They could try to disrupt the market. If BC has a steady price, then it becomes much more attractive a place for people to park their bank accounts.

Last few days, craziest market I've ever seen. Not many markets collapse by a factor of 5, and when bubbles burst they don't generally have repeated 70 point within-an-hour-or-two rallies during the fall, and then bounce back up by a factor of 2.5 from the low within hours, and etc. Looked like a puppet being jerked various ways.

Interestingly, the price of gold collapsed at almost the same time, down $75 on Friday. A former US Assistant Sec of Treasury claims the Fed orchestrated this by naked shorts of e-gold, with no physical gold to back them up.

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/12_Former_US_Treasury_Official_-_Fed_Orchestrated_Smash_In_Gold.html