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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: MtGox missing accounts
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on: November 02, 2018, 02:59:12 PM
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Thank you all for your replies. I thought I'd actually deleted the post, but it seems not. Which is why I didn't check it until now.
I have enough information that I'm sure they could find my account if they are motivated. I'm confident of my username because it is on some of the Emails I still have.
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Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Bitcoin tax advisors (UK)
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on: November 02, 2018, 02:37:01 PM
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Thank you for your reply. However I'm based in the UK where we have different laws from the USA, so your article will be more useful to other people.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / MtGox missing accounts
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on: October 20, 2018, 04:46:19 AM
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Back in June 28 2011 I bought some BTC and left them on MtGox. I still had the account in 2012 when they sent me a free Yubikey. I figured there was a reasonable chance of my home computer getting hacked so I kept some of my funds on MtGox and some at home to spread the risk. I was right! I purposely didn't log in often in order to avoid falling victim to phishing attempts - I received a lot of transparent attempts at these. Last correspondence from MtGox was in 19/8/2013 when they offered me a chance to sign up to their downloadable trading platform.
I've tried to make a claim but not had any luck so far as neither my Email or Username seem to be recognised. I have lots of correspondence from them so I'm fairly sure I've gotten these right. I'm not so sure about my password.
I'd be grateful if anybody could give me some pointers as to anything that might help me make a claim. I tried on the last round and had it rejected. I can't find my account details on the hacked lists from 2011 (slightly before I signed up) or 2014. I am trying hard to find my account ID but though I can find several numbers e.g. payment reference when I made a bank transfer to them, I can't find any numbers in common.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Roger Ver and Bitcoin.com do a social attacks to Bitcoin
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on: April 23, 2018, 10:53:41 PM
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My bet is that at some point someone with a lot of BTC is going to sell the lot to buy BCH and try and invert the pricing. At that point, I'm going to sell lots of my BCH - but not all, just in case they succeed.
How much would it take - a few tens of thousands of Bitcoins a day? There are a fair number of people around with wallets that size.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Why do we trust hardware wallet manufacturers?
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on: March 25, 2018, 06:21:37 AM
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There's no reason to trust the developer of a hardware wallet any more than there is to trust the developers of software wallets. The difference is that however well meaning the developers are, a software wallet is inherently insecure. A hardware wallet, running on an entirely 'known' system, should be considerably more secure. If the developers are dishonest then all bets are off - even if the source code checks out.
You can also keep the private key offline on a computer with the ethernet and wifi and bluetooth adapters physically removed, then use it to sign transactions offline. Then copy them manually to a 'live' computer. The problem is, when you make things complicated like this, your risk of losing money due to a screw-up can be larger than your risk of being hacked.
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Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Bitcoin tax advisors (UK)
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on: February 25, 2018, 07:43:32 PM
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Taxes
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First of all, thank you for answer and make me chance to write you pm). So it depends on the country what taxes are to pay. (Sorry for English - I am non-English speaker).
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Good morning kblaidd,
First of all i want to appology for distrub you. I have read few your posts over here. Find that you have get access to your old btc wallet. So please accept my congradulations, hopefully it will make your life to better one.
I know that its stupid from me, but anyway I will try. I will tell you my story a little bit.
So, actually i got in trap. And it would be good, if its have an impact on me.
So, money have been always problem for most of people. I have grew up in friendly family in the "developing counrty", have finished school and went to university. For that time, i my aim was to help my parents at least a little bit, due some circumstances which happen.
I have graduated and have approx 350$ salary a month, which is not to bad. But I stepped away. For the last 8 months life become very hard, due to some problems with spine i was need get money for treatment, about 1000$, to avoid my parrents worried about me i decided to take a debt, as i dont have good friends that could borrow me some amount. But another problem i have faced, that almost all banks which provide a credits reject me, and only one give 100$, and i did not remember how, but i get acquinted with pay-day loans. But at that time i was thinking only to solve that. So for first few months, i was spending all my salary for paying off % for payday loans, but one day i got extra spends happen and get another payday loan... I dont have nothing for sale, no car, no accomodation and my parents live in a small flat. So i again decided to keep silence about. But debt begin to grew uo drammatically. 2% daily for me was to hard, after 3 month i got 1500$ debt there, i paid of all my salary and additionally was working for renting a room and for food. Then its get out of control... My parents trying to help me, as well took credit to cover percents. As 3.5% daily will be if will not pay at that time. Now its its a huge amount, thousands dollars. I was working for 18 hours a day, but eveything i was spend for pay off debts, crouwdfunding websites are will not help me. If it had no impact on my parents, friends its was fine, as ot my stupid actions, however, it is what it is. A shame. I know that there are people in a world who are in more difficult situation... The way to back to life is closed. Few months ago i wrote to pineapplefund, however they had rule, no donations to individuals. But there are no charities who are helping individuals. A cant get any social loan or any help whatever. Over 1000% yearly its a trap into debt pitch.
I would kindly ask you to help me get out of this situation. If you can make any donations or you can help find me somehow get out of this situation... Or you can provide a credit with low percentage... It would very apprecieted. If you need evidence, i will provide all documents... If you dont want to donate btc, i would kindly ask to donate any btc forks or whatever...
Sorry again for such message, hopefully you will be not annoying.
Kindest regards,
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Thank you anyway, just one question about. Mostly everybody talking that they are donating only to charities, but why ? I mean there are no evidence as well that money spend on non-profit charities will go to their destination (fully or not).
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Good morning kblaidd,
I'm sorry again, but anyway you can credit me? With low percents rate? And after you claim forks, can you give your old btc wallet? For some research...
Kindest regards,
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Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Bitcoin tax advisors (UK)
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on: February 22, 2018, 09:36:13 PM
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OK, I've changed the setting and you're welcome to PM me.
In summary, whether you need to pay tax depends on where you live, how much you've earned from your bitcoins, and perhaps (in the UK) whether they are classed as an investment or as gambling. Also may depend on whether you've mined them, and if so whether you were doing so as part of a hobby or a for-profit enterprise.
I have contacted an accountant but not yet engaged their services. I have found the contact details for HMRC but not yet contacted them myself. When I have further information I will post here again openly, in the hope that it will be of use to someone else.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What happens to Bitcoin during an EMP / Solar Flare?
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on: February 21, 2018, 01:05:23 AM
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Found this thread as I was just wondering this - or something related. A lot of countries have a fairly tenuous connection to the internet. For example a 72 year old lady with a spade cut off Armenia's connection to the internet back in 2011. When Elon Musk's constellation is in orbit, total internet outages will become much less likely but I can still conceive of scenarios in which the internet becomes fragmented (e.g. combination of solar flare and 72 year old lady) in which case presumably local Bitcoin networks would continue to be function independently until the connection was restored... at which point if I understand correctly how the blockchain works... things would become very messy and potentially this could become devastating to the reputation of cryptocurrencies.
It seems to me that this could be protected against in software e.g. if nodes refused to work unless they had access to a number of geographically distant nodes. Or the network could even continue perhaps if there were a way to send transactions over short-wave radio (probably not a good scenario for a solar flare).
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Economy / Speculation / Re: Invest in Bitcoin now or wait for another dip?
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on: February 21, 2018, 12:43:49 AM
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Google 'investing minimising regret'. I think you've had some good advice already on this thread, but at the end of the day this is what it's about for most of us.
I don't think it makes sense to sweat too much about the minor details. For most - but I suspect not all of us - changes in Bitcoin price are utterly unpredictable. It may be $4000 or $40000 at the end of the month. You can't predict it, so if you fail to predict it you shouldn't beat yourself up about it. And as a consequence the time to invest is always 'now'.
Personally I think the psychology of how to avoid regret is more important than the question of when to invest.
If bitcoin goes up to 40k and you haven't bought in, how will you feel?
If bitcoin goes to 0 and you have put in too much, how will you feel?
I've watched one of my poor colleagues recently see his Bitcoin investment rise in value from $1000 to $2000 then drop back again, at which point he panicked and sold the lot at no loss or gain to himself. He was checking the price every hour and feels much better now he's been rid of them.
If Bitcoin continues to appreciate, 'when' you bought into Bitcoin can be less important than it first appears. Sure, if you'd bought a few weeks ago you could have bought twice the amount of bitcoin, but assuming Bitcoin continues to appreciate then all this means is that you achieve whatever investment goals you have slightly later. For example, I'm about to liquidate the bulk of my Bitcoin in order to buy a house. If I'd had 10x the amount of bitcoin, I'd have been able to buy my house last year instead of this year. So how much do I now regret not buying 10x the amount of Bitcoin back when they were a few tens of cents each? Not a lot, really.
The more complicated question is how to sell Bitcoins that you have seen rise in price, in order to minimise regrets should they suddenly tank. I HODLed mine until they were ripe to pay off the house all in one go, but arguably a strategy of selling them off gradually would have been more sensible. We're mostly Bitcoin Bulls on this forum, but a total crash remains possible.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 20, 2018, 11:42:19 PM
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I think bitcoin would have been better staying CPU/GPU they removed this from core a long time back now. I agree; I liked bitcoin better when it was it was more decentralised and anybody with a computer could contribute. I bid on Ebay on an early mining rig - just missed out and gave up on the idea. But it was when people started putting serious money into ASICS that I first realised that it really was going to turn into something big. By that time though, I had enough wealth in Bitcoins that I couldn't bring myself to spend significant money on buying more. I also owned a fairly powerful (for the day) computer that I used exclusively for games, and kept off the internet so that I didn't have to slow it down with antivirus software. Had I used it to mine bitcoins I would have made a lot more of them, but I suspect I wouldn't have actually ended up in a financially very different place. What was important to me was the ability to buy a house and live debt free - a position in which I now find myself. If I'd had twice the number of bitcoins I would have reached that point sooner - but on the grand scale of things, not a lot sooner. If I slightly regret anything, it's that I toyed with designing a hardware wallet back in 2010 but didn't have any spare time to devote to the project. Any particular reason you want to own a block? It was fun to see the 'mining' symbol next to the funds when you run Bitcoin-QT. I get some real satisfaction from having been there from relatively early on. |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 11:51:15 PM
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You have just been sent a personal message by Btcspot on Bitcoin Forum.
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The message they sent you was:
Hi kblaidd, yea I see your post about me and some1 accusing me of trying to fraud you but i wasnt. I was truly trying to help you so i could get a reward. Yes that wallet site isnt a scam ive been using it for 5 months nothing wrong also Electrum wasnt that secure until they fix. Yea 3 btc was alot to ask my bad but if I was in your shoes id at least give someone 1 bitcoin. Well glad i could help and im not well off like you think Im struggling also so if you could tip me just .5 or .4 that would help me out. My address I already gave you. Later man.
Btcspot. At one point you asked me whether I had recovered my funds yet. If you knew as much as me about Bitcoin you would have looked up the address on blockchain.info and seen that I hadn't. I agree you sent me a link (which I had already found for myself, though you were not to know that) but you also gave some advice I consider to be quite poor and hassled me to an extent I found unpleasant. I like to keep quiet about my Bitcoins. The reason I posted here was that I didn't understand why I was having trouble with the transactions and wanted guidance to avoid making expensive mistakes. I was really hoping not to have to resort to raw transactions. Not that I wouldn't have been capable of it (remember I downloaded the software in Summer 2010) but because there was a lot of detail I didn't want to have to learn and such a clear potential for getting things wrong. Have you ever been to the third developing world? The crushing poverty can be overwhelming with poor kids and beggars hassling you for money. It's deeply distressing and yet hard to do anything about. I'm not generally a fan of Bill Gates but I believe he said that it's as hard to give money away effectively as it is to make it in the first place. I'm afraid I see no indication that giving away money to you would be particularly effective - which is not to say I'm not sympathetic, though it may not seem that way to you. It may sound a bit crude, but I keep thinking of an unkempt man who owned a van and apparently cruised the streets of of a local city yelling 'Want a f**k?' at any women he passed. One or two in a hundred apparently said 'yes' and joined him in the back of the van, in which he had a mattress. It's one way to get laid, I suppose, and as far as I can imagine it's not illegal. But the cost is that the 99 women who say 'no' feel distressed and perhaps threatened as they go about their daily lives. Likewise, it's very corrosive if you are trying to discuss technical matters against a constant backdrop of begging letters. Perhaps not as bad as the example above, but it still leaves me with something of a bad taste in my mouth when I visit the forum. Having some money feels very odd. I've worked very hard at school since I was 4, got into a very competitive course at university, continued to work very hard ever since. Ended up with a mortgage on a fairly modest house that I expected to pay off when I was 62 despite overstretching myself financially to pay for it. One day I read an article about Bitcoin on Slashdot, downloaded the program and mined 50 bitcoins that 7 years later are worth more than I earn in a decade. I'm not complaining but neither am I kidding myself that this is anything like 'normal'. Being around people with money can be very harmful to your perspective on life. Bitcoin is about money, so for a little help on the forum you suggested I pay you $50,000 (or whatever 3 bitcoins were worth at the time). At the moment I also need a bit of help with a carburetor with a flat spot. If somebody helped me out on the carburetor forum, would you expect me to pay him $50,000 for his expertise - which these days is at least as specialised and scarce as expertise about Bitcoin? In my job I could easily kill somebody if I'm not careful. A few times I've even saved somebody's life by spotting something other people had missed*. Do I get a $50,000 bonus every time I save somebody's life? Should I? The answer is 'no' on both counts. There's nothing special about advice about money that makes it more valuable than advice about other matters. So, cultivate a sense of perspective. I get the impression that you are young and I am aware of how hard life can be these days. Although my mortgage has been crippling, I considered myself lucky to have one at all. I know that quality jobs are not as common as they used to be - the salary for my job is far lower than it would have been a decade or two ago. Something is going fundamentally wrong with the way society works. But that doesn't mean that hassling people for bitcoins on the internet is an acceptable thing to do. Paradoxically, I think the reason I have made money out of Bitcoin was because I was interested in it for its own sake and never really expected to. It seemed like a fun experiment and I was intrigued by it. What else are you interested in? By all means keep whatever bitcoin you own, but can I suggest you try to think of them a little less. I think your life will be better for it. * true, that works both ways |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 11:56:11 AM
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Good advice.
Rickorick, btcspot, I'm sure a bitcoin or two would make your lives better. But to earn the sums you're requesting I would have to work several months of 60 hour weeks, of which 1 in 3 are night shifts. On a bad day I may have to tell a mother that she has accidentally killed her child.
I also work with some great nursing auxillaries whose work can be equally stressful but who are very poorly paid. I'm acutely aware of how lucky I've been, but if you think I'm going to give you money just for asking then you're soft in the head. There are better ways of improving the world.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 10:59:27 AM
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To be fair, he didn't ask me to give any keys to him. I think more of a chancer than a fraudster but I did find the requests for 3 btc a bit much. At the time that would have been more than my salary for a year! Achow101, I will send a pourboire when I am back at the computer. I will also be making some donations to charity and some more to pay off my mortgage. Hi man « Sent to: kblaidd on: December 11, 2017, 05:02:40 AM » Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageDelete Hey try looking at this to get your coins moved https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1455675.0 or you can use google browser Go to wallet.btc.com, Sign up for account then open wallet dont worry its real safe wallet. Go to settings then import. You can select two options then paste your private key and move your coins. I hope one of these help you. If you could tip me reward of .5 btc of your 50 btc i would be greatful. Really need money right now. Reply if you need help. Report To Admin Btcspot Jr. Member * Offline Activity: 38 Merit: 0 View Profile Personal Message (Offline) Trust: 0: -0 / +0 Hi man « Sent to: kblaidd on: December 11, 2017, 05:27:53 AM » Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageDelete Hi if you get the coins succesfully, id gladly take a higher reward for my help. Take care My wallet is 36d7BVzP1nhToP2W3iUMUvL4g5JZrz56KP Report To Admin Btcspot Jr. Member * Offline Activity: 38 Merit: 0 View Profile Personal Message (Offline) Trust: 0: -0 / +0 Heyman « Sent to: kblaidd on: December 12, 2017, 03:09:31 AM » Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageDelete I hear you. I probably wouldnt put my key in interneteither. Well I hope you get them using bitcoincore and if you do dont forget to send a few coins my way. If you need my bitcoin address again ill send it but I think i already did. Report To Admin Btcspot Jr. Member * Offline Activity: 38 Merit: 0 View Profile Personal Message (Offline) Trust: 0: -0 / +0 Hi man « Sent to: kblaidd on: December 14, 2017, 05:24:46 AM » Reply with quoteQuote ReplyReply Remove this messageDelete Hi man did you download bitcoin core yet? Did it work, glad I could help. If you get them back Please consider helpin me with a 2 or 3 btc donation here 36d7BVzP1nhToP2W3iUMUvL4g5JZrz56KP I really need it for home repairs,gifts, bills. Glad I could help, keep us posted. if you want to contact me or need help email REDACTED |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 05:32:29 AM
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It has worked. Thank you for the reassurance.
I remain curious about why the transaction failed using other methods (mycelium, electrum etc...). Anything I could/should do to investigate?
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 05:07:49 AM
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Achow101, thank you for your kind instructions.
Given that I have recovered an unsent raw transaction and posted a redacted version of the output above, is there anything obviously wrong with it? I have verified that the number 'MyLedgerAddress' is the correct public key for my Ledger wallet. I won't hold you responsible if I lose my bitcoins, but would be grateful if you could tell me if there is anything obviously wrong with it or if there is any advantage to trying to make a raw transaction from scratch, in the way that you describe?
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 04:47:32 AM
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Holy shit.. Did you mine a 50BTC block back in 2010 and HODL all this time... Well done for you if you did.. Not many people would announce that in public. Believe me, I'm more paranoid than that fact might imply! If anybody's wondering, there's no point in tracing my address and breaking in and stealing my computers. That side of things is well taken care of. The psychology of how I managed to HODL them that long is interesting and I'm not sure I understand it myself. Sure there was the temptation to buy new toys but I wanted to hold onto them until the sum was meaningful i.e. pay off the mortgage. Does that make me more or less greedy? I don't know. I had been intending to send a raw transaction, but what I actually did was to download Bitcoin Core and then the blockchain and utterly disable the internet for that computer. I then copied my private key over onto the Bitcoin Core wallet, which is encrypted, then I just sent the 50 bitcoins to an address on my Ledger Nano. Given that the computer was not connected to the internet the transaction was not broadcast, so I get the transaction ID then used getrawtransaction through the console, then decoderawtransaction to try to verify it. I still haven't sent it. Would it make sense to send the transaction to a testnet? I'm not sure to what extent the testnet mirrors the current blockchain? I'm posting here for several reasons.The main one is that I don't want to make a silly mistake. The other is that I'm simply curious about what stopped this transaction working previously. There's something odd about those 50 btc. They show up happily on Blockchain but I couldn't recover them with other wallets. When I ran pywallet on the wallet they were in, it showed up the few bitcoins I had from bitcoin faucets but didn't show the 50 I knew were left from bitcoin mining. I could only see them on the bitcoin-qt wallet. I wonder, 90% in jest, whether that's what happened to all the MtGox bitcoins. Is this a well known bug? |
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: Lost bitcoins
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on: February 19, 2018, 02:32:25 AM
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Thanks, but it seemed to me that I might as well just send the whole lot at once. If I get the 'change address' wrong, then I lose the bitcoins. If I get this wrong, then I lose the bitcoins. May as well try to send them all at once, at which point they will be safe. And as that is simpler to do, I figure I am less likely to make a mistake this way.
But that is a nice well presented video. Thanks for posting it.
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