I have a similar question, so I thought I'd post in this thread.
I opened a ~6 year old wallet.dat file in a fresh install of bitcoin-core (after it downloaded over a hundred gigs of data!). It shows 0 bitcoin, so before I trash it I want to make sure I have my settings right. I was mining on a pool and I have emails of transactions from the mining pool to my public bitcoin address.
I have a similar question, so I thought I'd post in this thread.
I opened a ~6 year old wallet.dat file in a fresh install of bitcoin-core (after it downloaded over a hundred gigs of data!). It shows 0 bitcoin, so before I trash it I want to make sure I have my settings right. I was mining on a pool and I have emails of transactions from the mining pool to my public bitcoin address.
Did you check whether the address which recieved the payouts does indeed have a balance? You can check your address in a block explorer (e.g. https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC, https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/ or https://blockchain.info/. If your address does 'contain' bitcoins you have to make sure that your wallet does hold the private key of this address. You can use the listaddressgroupings command to list all addresses. Check whether your address is listed. Or you can execute the listunspent command to list all unspent outputs (basically the 'coins you can send'). Or alternatively, drop/dump the private keys of all your adresses, and import them in something such as Electrum, which should show all the balances you've possibly had on those adresses, since the core wallet might somehow be bugged.. It's less of a hassle then looking through 100's of adress on blockchain.info, The command simply is Do note that this will extract your private keys in an unprotected format. Thanks for your replies, I'm starting to think I never fully understood bitcoin when I set it up, but here's what I know: The single address that the pool paid out to has a couple bitcoin, it says unspent on blockchain. I don't know whether the wallet is the destination of this address, unfortunately... Is Electrum an alternative bitcoin client? Do I import the private keys directly or via the wallet.dat file? Thanks for your help! EDIT: Another thought I had, it may be a locked wallet. The bitcoin-core software (the windows GUI version) rescanned for a while after opening the old wallet.dat file, but didn't prompt for a passphrase to unlock it. Do I have to do that manually? There might not be a passphrase, depending on the version and settings you used. And yes, Electrum is an alternative client, and you import the private keys directly, not the wallet.dat I'm trying to get some of my BTC out of the wallet.
I listedaddressgroupings and found 1address with a small balance which matches my records. I attempted to send the BTC out, but over serveral transactions came back conflicted or unconfirmed, but the trx did not even show up on explorer.
Seeing as I have a balance, should I just backup the wallet and load it on a electrum, what are the risks with dumpwallet?
Is there an easier and safer way?
Thank you very much!
The only risks are that your computer might be infected with a virus, in which case anyone could scan through your private keys. |
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I have a similar question, so I thought I'd post in this thread.
I opened a ~6 year old wallet.dat file in a fresh install of bitcoin-core (after it downloaded over a hundred gigs of data!). It shows 0 bitcoin, so before I trash it I want to make sure I have my settings right. I was mining on a pool and I have emails of transactions from the mining pool to my public bitcoin address.
I have a similar question, so I thought I'd post in this thread.
I opened a ~6 year old wallet.dat file in a fresh install of bitcoin-core (after it downloaded over a hundred gigs of data!). It shows 0 bitcoin, so before I trash it I want to make sure I have my settings right. I was mining on a pool and I have emails of transactions from the mining pool to my public bitcoin address.
Did you check whether the address which recieved the payouts does indeed have a balance? You can check your address in a block explorer (e.g. https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC, https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/ or https://blockchain.info/. If your address does 'contain' bitcoins you have to make sure that your wallet does hold the private key of this address. You can use the listaddressgroupings command to list all addresses. Check whether your address is listed. Or you can execute the listunspent command to list all unspent outputs (basically the 'coins you can send'). Or alternatively, drop/dump the private keys of all your adresses, and import them in something such as Electrum, which should show all the balances you've possibly had on those adresses, since the core wallet might somehow be bugged.. It's less of a hassle then looking through 100's of adress on blockchain.info, The command simply is Do note that this will extract your private keys in an unprotected format. |
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Hello,
I'd like to move my wallet over to a new wallet, don't want to mess it up. I'm using a Mac Sierra 10.12.6 with 120GB hard drive.
Thank you very much in advance!!!
What exactly do you want to do? Simply import/export all the private keys in the new wallet you want. Although, depending on when your bitcoin core was created, it would generally be better to make a transaction sweeping all your funds into the new wallet that has seeds etcetera. ( Something such as electrum)), which Bitcoin Core doesn't have. |
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Hello.
I'm about to launch a descentralized coin and platform specifically for use in one of the most lucrative sectors of today's economy. there is nothing like this on the market right now and I believe it will be an exciting and profitable investment. I'm looking for a BTC or ETH loan to cover the development cost of the platform, the coin is ready, which I aim to repay in two months, I will give tokens as collateral.
Best regards.
Are you able to give anything else as a collateral then these tokens, ( as they are essentially worthless at the moment, as anyone can simply make an ERC20 token(?)). You're also giving almost no information, and are simply using alot of buzzwords. Makes me pretty suspicious and anxious about your project. I doubt anyone will give you a loan for them. |
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Hello. What do you guys use to exchange bitcoin and altcoin to USD and transfer to bank account.. Can I do it without providing ID? Which has the lowest fee?
Thanks.
I'd say that http://coinbase.com is the most noob-friendly exchange to buy/sell altcoins. You do need to verify your ID/passport. If you don't want to do that, you should look for a P2P exchange such as http://localbitcoins.com, although the risk of being scammed is much bigger here. |
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I transferred some of my Bitcoin to a wallet on Blockchain.info (blockchainbdgpzk.onion). The transaction is complete and confirmed. It shows that my bitcoin is in the wallet but when I try and click send the "To" text box where you enter the address to send the bitcoin never appears. It just shows 3 little boxes that fade in and out like they are trying to load the text box.
Any idea what's going on? The text box to enter the address to send my bitcoin never appears. I can wait for 5 minutes and it never comes up. My bitcoin is now stuck in this wallet and I cannot do anything with it. I have tried multiple times throughout the day for the last few weeks and same result every time. I sent a message to Blockchain.info support but have had no response.
I tried to send Ether and Bitcoin cash and the "To" text box appears immediately but I do not have any Ether or Bitcoin Cash in my wallets.
I appreciate any help you can give.
Seems to me that there is something wrong with the way content is displayed on your browser. Try reinstalling ( in this case ) Tor browser maybe? Maybe also enable things such as JavaScript, as that could also be the reason why some things aren't displayed properly. |
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hello, my TX is stuck for one month with a 20 Sat/byte fee.
please help.
TX : a2adf18257544e29c2b03c53cf0d1fb86a82d8020a551fce89bcba1e0c98db23
I have emptied an electrum wallet and cannot replace fee. that wallet is now empty.
If you're unable to replace the fee, the only thing you can basically do is accelerate it. Either paid or free. For paid accelerators, use something like this, https://pushtx.btc.com/. I currently only know 1 free accelerator which actually works, and that is https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/, do note that you can only put in your transaction for a very limited time ( the first couple seconds each hour). |
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Hello. I've seen people asking managers in signature campaigns to change the payment addresses and explaining that the reason is very high transaction fees. That's why I got a question: if one changes the address, does it really make the fees lower? The current fees are not that crazy, but $10+ still seems high to me. If I change the address, how much the things would change and why? I thought everyone is offered approximately the same fees. Moreover, during a short period of time one can still be offered slightly different sums regardless to the wallet address onto which the money came.
Thanks in advance.
Not even the slightest. Changing the address has no effect on the protocol as on the protocol level, addresses don't even exist, it is all about UTXOs.
So no, using the same address or changing it will have no effect as the address is simply something for humans to understand, but for the blockchain it only matters to reference transactions where you got coins.
It does make a difference if you chance your adress to a segwit compatible adress. They either start with bc1... or 3..... ( 3 could also mean multi-signature so be aware.) https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/62437/requirements-to-accept-and-send-segwit-transactionsWhy they are much cheaper then normal transaction is explained extremely well over here, https://segwit.org/what-is-behind-the-segwit-discount-8515a8d3bca9Note that you probably still need to make a network transaction to send your bitcoins to a compatible adress before you will see lower fees. |
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I am trying to understand about bots And heard there are bots which can trade for you and give you great returns. How do they link up with an exchange and what types of bots are there and what are people using and have they profited well from these bots? Can you even trust a bot to trade for you as you will have more knowledge of when to trade and at what mark? Are they lead by artificial intelligence?
Thankyou in advance.
I'll try to answer your question in pieces. How do they link up with an exchange and Most exchanges have an API which you can "Call" to place orders, or see prices. For example bittrex's api, -> https://bittrex.com/home/apiwhat types of bots are there There's alot of of trading bots, however the ones that are most known/famous are Gunbot, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1715214.0 and C.A.TBOT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507103.0and what are people using and have they profited well from these bots? Primarily opinion-based, and as i have barely used any bots myself, i can't really comment on how profitable it is. Can you even trust a bot to trade for you as you will have more knowledge of when to trade and at what mark? I'd say that most people will only use the bot to make things more convient for themselves, but this is also opinion-based. Some people indeed trust the/certain bots more on detecting certain patterns then themselves. Are they lead by artificial intelligence? I wouldn't call it artificial intelligence, (as ( as far as i know) they aren't self-learning) but rather lead by detecting certain patterns/prices/volumes/sell walls etc, which have all been programmed in by the creator. Ping-ponging for example:, ( which is garantueed to make a profit with a large enough spread in the order book.) |
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Loan: 0.10-0.12
Payment: 0.12-0.15
Reason: Personal
Repayment: in a week or 2 weeks (will contact later)
Collateral: This account
Need ASAP
What's the reason for your loan? I might be able to lend you, but not 0.1, with only your account as collateral. Note to DarkStar: Exclude this post from sig campaign x) |
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I'm quite curious - if there is a bug on the forum connected with deleted threads - may it somehow unlock your activity periods?
What exactly do you mean? If a post gets deleted from a certain period, it shouldn't matter, since you will still have the potential activity for that period, thus shall the activity be rewarded for any other post. ( Unless ofcourse the deleted post is the only post you've made in that period, in which case your potential activity would decrease with 14. ( And depending on the posts you made your "real" activity might also decrease with more then 1?) ^ Someone with more knowledge then me might be able to eleborate/clear this up a bit more. |
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Accelerated through viabtc. Should get confirmed soon. How did you do that 17 minutes past the hour? Usually you only have around 1-2 seconds whenever the new hour starts. ( Due to the massive amounts of users willing to accelerate with only 100 slots). Are you using their Customer-Only Service? Something here tells me you're lying about accelerating his transaction  . Or did it really take you 17 minutes and 45 seconds to typ that sentence?
It's 118.316 sat/B and 29.579 sat/WU which is the normal fee but since blockchain is over loaded with over 1 lakh transactions, none of the transactions with even 400 sats are getting confirmed in time. Exchanges on top are making it even worse by sending 100's of transactions at a time with minimal fee.
Whoops. Misread. In that case they're in with a shot. My recent fees have been about the 160/170 sat/b level. One took about three days to clear, the other about 18 hours, the other about two days. This was earlier in the week and I was in no hurry so wasn't bothered. I wouldn't say that that is the norm right now, more like 220 sat/b, according to https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ |
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I am currently unable to login onto the site. I've tried multiple browsers, but on all of them i'm getting the same error.
-- ERROR:"SSL_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED_ALERT" --
Anyone else encountering this? I haven't been on the site for a long time, i presume they changed from HTTPS provider, do i need to delete /reinstall my browser (Or is there something you could resolve )?
( Can't really find anything about this issue on google. Only if it doesn't work in general/all sites., which isn't the case)
It works fine on mobile, since i have never logged on there before, but it is still pretty annoying. This is the only site i'm encountering this error with aswell.
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 The hell is with the fee, last time I paid less than 3 bucks, now you are asking me to pay this much!? Not sure when the "last time" was when you made a transaction, but the mempool has increased, which could be the reason for an increase in fees, or your output is different then last time ( more bytes, more small outputs) Have you broadcastes yet? Could you give a tx ID? The last time I made a transaction was on the 3'rd of December, and I have no clue how you broadcast, kinda new. This was my last transaction: Status: 5366 confirmations Date: 3/12/2017 10:22 To: 1BHUbcsYPasyfKs7p5y7rSs1ATCBBUk5EQ Debit: -0.00070600 BTC Transaction fee: -0.00016032 BTC Net amount: -0.00086632 BTC Transaction ID: d80501e1a652ce6bd9e22a6b78b108ea16118b6c6a7108a0ad6636415ac3af23 Transaction total size: 226 bytes Output index: 1 By broadcasting i simply mean if you have sent out the new transaction yet, so i could see if your transaction had either alot of dust, or if it was simply an error of your wallet ( by not calculating the right fees). https://blockchain.info/tx/d80501e1a652ce6bd9e22a6b78b108ea16118b6c6a7108a0ad6636415ac3af23 This transaction indeed has quite a low fee compared to today's standards, ( only 70 sat/b while the norm today is around ~550sat/b for a transaction that you want to confirm fast.) So you shouldn't be too worried if your wallet is suggesting you to atleast pay x2/x3 that amount today, since that is currently the median ( ~220sat/b) |
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The hell is with the fee, last time I paid less than 3 bucks, now you are asking me to pay this much!? Not sure when the "last time" was when you made a transaction, but the mempool has increased, which could be the reason for an increase in fees, or your output is different then last time ( more bytes, more small outputs) Have you broadcasted yet? Could you give a tx ID? |
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Your transaction has over 1500 confirmations, so it indeed definitely isn't a network/protocol related issue, but something at the operating side of hashflare. I doubt there's much you can do other then contacting their support, as they definitely received the BTC. Also as a sidenote, i would really not advise you to buy these cloud mining contracts, as the companies behind them often disappear/it is usually a ponzi. Not saying that this is the case with hashflare, but there's a huge chance it is indeed a ponzi. |
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Hi
Hoping someone can assist me, I have the below transaction which is unconfirmed, have tried broadcasting numerous times and others have too and accelerating it with no success and i understand it may never be confirmed due to the size vs fee, my questions are, if i abandon the transaction as per below steps and when my wallet (Bitcoin core Knots 0.15.1) restarts again as normal without the step 2 command so my wallet is broadcasting again that when my wallet re-syncs with the block chain the unconfirmed transaction will not re-appear in my wallet and that my wallet will not try to re-send the transaction again?
I don`t wish to advise my TX ID as i want to stop trying to broadcast it, i don`t wish to try to re-send with higher fee either i just want the BTC returned to my wallet, i understand this may take some time until all the nodes drop my TX from their mempools.
Total Inputs 0.03266100 BTC
Total Outputs 0.03166006 BTC
Fee 0.00100094 BTC
Fee / KB 0.00008436 BTC
Size 11,865 bytes
Abandon transaction steps
1 - Delete mempool file from bitcoin code directory
2 - Start bitcoin with -walletboradcast=0
3 - Once bitcoin started i right-click transaction and and i choose abandon transaction
4 - Turn wallet off and restart
Thanks in advance
Additionally, you could use -zapwallettxes in your bitcoin.conf, or cmd see https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/45988/how-do-you-apply-zapwallettxes-on-windows which basically removes all unconfirmed/stuck transactions from your bitcoin-core gui, (+ your own "mempool"), Although you still need to wait untill all the other nodes drop your transaction aswell.. |
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Networks, ie. Bittrex charge a fee on each trade. They also charge a withdrawal fee (and maybe a deposit fee?).
Are network fees also charged on a trade? For example, I trade Ether for XRP and on Bittrex I pay their fee of 0.25%. Does the trade also subtract a network/blockchain fee the same as what you would pay sending bitcoin from one address to another?
Every time I search 'exchange' and 'network fee' I just find pages detailing the exchange fees.
How does an exchange work? ie. is there an intermediate currency like USDT? Does it go Ether --> USDT --> XRP?
No, Bittrex/Poloniex are centralized. These currencies never leave their platform when trading between them, unless you withdraw them from their site, ( that's when they enter the network). So every transaction a user does on their platform, let it be BTC -> XRP , is offchain, and you're completely dependant on ( in this case) bittrex, to give you the right amount of ripple. But i assume that they are indeed using the maker/trader fees to pay for the on-chain transactions and their servers. |
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I have a silly silly question to ask, please do forgive me. Why is millions of dollars spent on the new forum? This much money spent on the new forum won't eradicate the scammers and scumbags and shit posters away. This is none of my business but still am curious about it. And will there be more number of mods in the new forum at least? And what's the current state of the new forum? Sorry for the off topic spam here.  It probably wasn't millions when theymos put the offer to code the new forum out, it was more around ~275k$ worth of bitcoin. The price simply increased 10-50fold, hence why it's now more like 10-20 million. You can see the current state of the new forum here, https://beta.bitcointalk.org/404 Don't look at it too long, since you are going to hate every little aspect about it. ( Or is that just me?) |
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