Accessing bitcoins with bitcoins qt

[Tkt2012]

Hey,

I purchased some bitcoins and had them sent to my bitcoin qt wallet.

But it hasn't synchronized with the network yet and is loading the blocks very slowly. Like 1 block every 5 seconds. And there is still over 15,000 blocks remaining.

So the bitcoins I purchased aren't showing up and it would take days for it to load all the blocks and synchronize with the network at this speed. On top of that the disk space on the computer I'm running it on a is real low and the program shuts down because of the low disk space.

HOW on earth can I get access to my bitcoins ASAP, preferably today?

Please help.

P.s. I tried to use pywallet to dump the private key and then import the key on strongcoin but I can't seem to get the twisted package installed for python so I can run the web interface of the pywallet script.

NEED HELP!!!

[c789]

The block database on my PC is close to 4GB. The initial download gets a lot slower as you get closer to the full block count, but once you're there, it's pretty fast.

If the person who sent you BTC didn't include a transaction fee it will probably take longer than if they had included one.

I know this doesn't help you get your BTC now, but someone else will pipe in (I'm not knowledgeable in that area yet). I thought you should know about the database size since space is a consideration.

[Meni Rosenfeld]

You shouldn't run your computer with no disk space, ideally you should have 5%-10% or more free. The blocks are slowly loading because you've run out of disk space. Make some room and then run the program again.

Other than that, if you can't extract the key, your only option is to mail the wallet.dat file to someone and have them retrieve the coins for you. They'll probably expect a fee for the service.

[Stephen Gornick]

HOW on earth can I get access to my bitcoins ASAP, preferably today?

Are you running on an encrypted filesystem?  That will really slow things down.


With Bitcoin v0.7 you can load from a blockchain data file:

 e.g., from the command prompt:

   C:> bitcoin-qt  -loadblock="C:\temp\blk0001.dat"

Get a current blockchain database here:

 - http://eu1.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain


You can even tell the client to not make any connections:

  (add   -maxconnections=0  to your bitcoin-qt command line)



[Update: Fixed.  -loadblock not -loaddata
One other suggestion, you might find someone who can provide you with a fast download of a current blockchain and index.   Or perhaps you can pay to have someone take your wallet and do a spend transaction that sends the funds to your EWallet. ]