How do you do this? "You can use -prune to get it down to 2GB."
You use the commandline argument -prune=<N> or put prune=<N> in your bitcoin.conf file where <N> is greater than or equal to 550 as per the instructions in the release notes: With 0.12 it is possible to use wallet functionality in pruned mode. This can reduce the disk usage from currently around 60 GB to around 2 GB.
However, rescans as well as the RPCs importwallet, importaddress, importprivkey are disabled.
To enable block pruning set prune=<N> on the command line or in bitcoin.conf, where N is the number of MiB to allot for raw block & undo data.
A value of 0 disables pruning. The minimal value above 0 is 550. Your wallet is as secure with high values as it is with low ones. Higher values merely ensure that your node will not shut down upon blockchain reorganizations of more than 2 days - which are unlikely to happen in practice. In future releases, a higher value may also help the network as a whole: stored blocks could be served to other nodes.
For further information about pruning, you may also consult the release notes of v0.11.0.
So you'd simply add a line in your bitcoin.conf that looks like: and it will aim to prune your DB to like 1000megs. Alternatively, if you're on windows, you simply edit the properties for the shortcut being used to start Bitcoin Core and add -prune=1000 to the end:  Note: that this WILL disable some features as noted... |
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Thats quiet fast for 4 days syncing knowing that the entire blockchain do have 125gb. I would like to ask on how fast is your internet connection? I would really love to download bitcoin core to but the thing that hindrance me is my internet connection which is really slow i tried up to download for 1 day and only got 5% wtf? I would need to download it for 3 weeks. Thats why i gave up and ended up on downloading electrum.
Honestly, it isn't so much the speed of your internet connection that is the bottleneck... if you monitor your network stats during syncing, you'll notice the network is hardly even used (unless you're on a severely throttled link... or dialup  )... Syncing isn't just a matter of downloading 125Gigs of data... the "real" bottleneck comes from your CPU/Disk when it has to hash and verify EVERY block... especially if you are attempting to use your computer for other things at the same time. It is the computational load that will slow things down... there is a reason why people use GPUs for mining and why they created ASICs... normal CPUs aren't that great at doing large amounts of crypto math quickly  |
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Username: HCP
Post Count: 1401 (including this post)
BTC Address: 1J6rCjxr8woQggDbCZifcjwF776qKtR68y
Should you still have any free slots available, I would like to enrol in this campaign.
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You can save your private keys too just in case.If you have done all this in a secure computer that doesn't have any malware or anything than you are safe.
Honestly, it is pointless saving the private keys... as soon as a new address is generated (basically after the OP receives their first payment), the backup of private keys is out of date. Additionally, exposing private keys is an unnecessary risk if they already have the seed safely backed up/stored away offline. As Abdussamad said... seed+encrypted wallet file = all you need. |
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Hi,
I wanted to send all my BTC to one address. The app propted me, that I'm sending to my own address. I did so 4 days ago. The transaction is completed and verified 680 times. But it's "red" and not in my wallet.
If you tap on the transaction and view the details it will show the same as the block explorer, BTC out, BTC in, fee paid etc... so the transaction IS in your wallet... It just doesn't display as you think it might. Instead of two entries (one entry in the list showing an outgoing amount and one entry showing an incoming amount)... it combines them both into one entry as they are part of the same transaction. It then calculates that the overall effect on your balance was negative (due to the 0.00018356 BTC in fees paid)... so it shows it as "red". Your total balance (I believe it is on the "Saldo" tab) should show correctly... ie. 0.79508850 BTC (assuming that tx involved ALL your coins) |
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I had my blockchain.info wallet linked with Byteball before. Now according to changed situation I have transferred to HD Cored wallet which is multisigature. If I understood well now I can link new wallet using sign message, am I right ? If I send directly the funds will keep moving to automated generated addresses.
Be aware that you cannot (easily) sign messages with a MultiSig address... I'm not sure if Byteball supports the "send a small payment" method to prove address ownership, I dont see the option when I try to link an address. So, you may want to use a standard address wallet rather than MultiSig. Also, you don't have to use new addresses with HD wallets... it will generate new addresses by default, but the old ones will continue to work. |
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You just distribute bytes to linked addresses only. If the address is linked it means somebody has access to it. Anyway GBytes that end up in dead addresses just increase the value of the remaining Gbytes so it's not that big of a problem. It's just a bit wasteful but I can live with that.
But then it's possible that someone linked an address, then lost access to the wallet without a backup, rendering the linked address as "dead" (See all the posts in here from people attempting to recover wallets). There is no real way to know either way... At least this way, it guarantees that no one (with access) misses out |
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Actually, most of these issues could be resolved by ICOs simply refusing to accept any Multi-Sig (aka "3") addresses... how hard is it to add some validation/warning to their websites that warns anyone attempting to use a "3" address that they will be unable to claim their tokens/coins... Im trying to get free STR coins but they need a signed wallet ofc.
There was no warning in Electrum that my wallet will be little bit broken after seed restoration.
Well now I have to make new wallet ,move BTC again and pay huge today's comission again.
Firstly, your wallet isn't broken... it is functioning exactly as designed... and they DO provide a "warning":  Secondly, there is no point making a new wallet and moving your BTC... the Stellar Lumens "snapshot" was taken on June 26th: June 26, 2017: We took a snapshot of the blockchain at the first block mined after midnight on June 26th (UTC/GMT). This snapshot will record the coin balances of all bitcoin accounts at that time So you can only claim using the address the coins were in at the time of the snapshot... If you try a new address, it will give an error:  |
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Yeah... I had other issues with Breadwallet, like it's refusal to let me run the keyboard of my choosing... my personal favourite was when it handily suggested I should use the "Google" Keyboard... which I am, but it still refused to work??!?  I appreciate the dev is all super security focussed etc... but at some point you need to allow users to actually use your app Simple Bitcoin Wallet is VERY simple... I can't vouch for it's security, so I would make sure you have somewhere safe to move your coins and send them ASAP once you get it all synced up. Good luck |
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Then some Tx hierarchically upward in the same Tx chain. Correct. I think you'll find the one he REALLY wants confirmed is: https://blockchain.info/tx/5583fa42048380aecd6c8fdd88b868977e833b85ac385e074973d8d3c86686c5Someone dropped 3.369 BTC into the Bitcoin Doubler address... using a 3,146.853 sat/B fee no less!!?!  That TX is still unconfirmed... I'm wondering if it is because of the 0.00000001 sat input?  In any case, that TX hasn't propagated... and only seems to be visible on b.info... because they'll propagate pretty much anything! EDIT: or is it because of this: "64: non-mandatory-script-verify-flag (Witness program hash mismatch) (code -26)"?? or even this: " 256: absurdly-high-fee" ?? |
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I started with MultibitHD until for inexplicably no reason, it started telling me "Password failed to unlock wallet" even though im 500% sure it's the correct password. Tried recovery, password reset, wallet restore, nothing ever worked and the Multibit team basically told me to F off and stopped responding to my help requests.
Yeah... if you read the MultiBit subforum... you'll find countless threads about "Password failed to unlock the wallet"... it is a well known MBHD issue, KeepKey (the MultiBit devs) have been aware of it for months... and yet, no update... in fact, no update on MBHD github since March!!?! Then, I was advised I could access the BTC from "Breadwallet" on my android, so I did that and it worked - for a while - until about 48 hours ago the breadwallet app just goes to "syncing" for literally hours at a time sometimes. It either crashes "unfortunately, Breadwallet has stopped" at 65%, 80%, 16%, 99.9% and so on. Every few attempts sometimes it will complete and say I have a balance of 0.00.
This is why I have been advising people like yourself to only use Breadwallet to recover their funds... I DO NOT recommend Breadwallet (or Simple Bitcoin Wallet, Android Only) for long term storage of their coins. I tried using the same seed phrase in Jaxx and Electrum and still balance of 0.00 with no transactions.
Unfortunately, Jaxx uses a different "Derivation Path" with it's 12 word seeds... so the same seed ends up generating different addresses in Jaxx. Electrum won't work because it uses a completely different seed system... and even if you select "BIP39 Seed" from the options menu when entering the seed, again, it uses a different Derivation Path, so again, you end up with different addresses. I have the recovery phrase/seed or whatever and date stamp etc but it doesn't pull up anything nomatter where I go and "Breadwallet" (more like fucked in the ass wallet) is busy "syncing" for the 15th time today to what I'm sure will either be a crash or 0.00000 balance. I tried uninstalling the app and reinstalling, it doesn't have any effect.
Can someone help me sort this out before I pull my hair out and throw my PC out of my window ?
I can certainly help out... and rest assured, your coins are not lost  Firstly, are you running an iOS or Android phone? If iOS, sadly, the only known solution I have is "Breadwallet"... but we can do a longer/slightly more complex approach on the PC if "Breadwallet" is still being problematic. If you are on Android... try "Simple Bitcoin Wallet": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.btcontract.wallet&hl=enIt is basic, and a little slow, but it should get you access to your coins relatively easily... at which point I would highly recommend you immediately send all your coins to a new wallet. I'd recommend Electrum as a very solid, very reliable replacement for MBHD. It is also a lightweight "SPV" wallet that doesn't require you to download the entire blockchain. It is actively maintained and supported and there are a lot of users in the Electrum sub-forum who will be able to help if you have any issues/questions. If you aren't having any success getting into Breadwallet or Simple Bitcoin Wallet... let me know, and we can give you the step by step for recovering your private keys from the Seed phrase so you can sweep/import them into another wallet |
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I have checked the my core client , it is upto date
I have rescanned the wallet balance (still zero) and Databases.
Wallet currently displaying connected (409214 blocks)
Any thoughts ?
I hope you typed that number in wrong... Block #409214 was from 2016-04-28 03:09:46!!?! current block height is: 477258. Seems like the Armory DB hasn't actually connected to, and/or processed all the blocks from, your Core Client... have you checked the log files, specifically dbLog.txt? |
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Directly from the Transition Bot, when I linked a new BTC change address just now: For the bytes you hold on August 7 you receive 0.2 new byte for each 1 byte of your balance, even if your bytes are not on linked Byteball addresses.
You also receive 0.42222 blackbytes for each 1 byte of your balance on the linked Byteball address, which currently is:
So, you get 0.2 byte per 1 byte... even if that address isn't linked... however, the 0.42222 blackbytes are ONLY for linked ByteBall addresses. |
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Cheers Lauda... "firm but fair"... I appreciate the effort you've gone to to try and keep the boards a little less spammy... I really don't envy the task of a campaign manager dealing with the idiots and self entitled fools who demand to be included and refuse to acknowledge their own shortcomings when denied. And, of course, thanks to Bitmixer for the service... sad to see it end! Can't say I agree with the reasons, but I respect their decision. |
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I'd be inclined to agree that the root cause is your RAM... Little "random" errors like this are generally caused by faulty RAM. I'd highly recommend you download and run memtest86... if you have a faulty stick of RAM, Memtes86 will find it |
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If you can find node(s) willing to relay your transaction and a miner willing to mine it with zero fee... However, given that the vast majority of nodes will reject transactions with zero fee and refuse to relay them, you might find that your transaction will not propagate well, if at all... and therefore the chances of a miner picking it up will probably be equal to the fee... that is to say, zero |
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...but it is not being displayed on my Armory wallet?
Since I have downloaded the block chain and Armory has caught up with my first transaction it doesn’t seem to download the block chain past my initial transaction on start-up, is there a reason for this?
My Armory does seem to be 1000 blocks behind, I am currently on block 475166.
The reason your Armory wouldn't show it is because the transaction was in Block 476251 Included In Blocks 476251 ( 2017-07-17 18:07:59 + 6 minutes )
Is your Bitcoin Core running and syncing correctly? It sounds like it isn't synced... without Core being synced... you won't see any new transactions... Since regenerated the Wallet.
But Wallet has not registered / remembered the address used for the transaction. Recanning does not generate the transaction in question.
How do I manually input the address (if that is what is needed) ?
I have the Block number, script pub key ,script sig etc but no idea how to pull the transaction home to the wallet.
Any ideas ?
What do you mean by you "regenerated" the wallet? Did you restore the wallet from the paper backup you made when you first created the wallet? Or did you just make a new wallet? If you are not seeing the same addresses being generated in your wallet, chances are you have not restored your backup correctly, and are effectively just working with a brand new wallet and brand new addresses  |
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Sounds like a firewall permissions issue... especially if you can't even connect "outbound"... if you goto: "Help -> Debug Window"... what does the "Number of Connections" line say?
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I am not a tech guy and I don't understand this article - http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/hardfork.htmlWell I would like to know are they update their Windows Wallet application with both type of Bitcoin so the noob users don't have to do anything. Probably not... Electrum doesn't need to change anything to continue working as designed... it will happily connect to Electrum Servers and retrieve the information as required. If a fork happens and you want to follow both sides of the split, you'll need to do it on your end. If that is too much trouble for you, then just sit tight... Electrum allows you to have easy access to your private keys... so you can just export them and import them into "OtherSideOfTheSplit" wallet as required to access coins on the other chain if required. |
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