Triangle. Where are my bitcoins/

[Steed]

Hi,
Yersterday I tried sending a 5btc transaction, but for some reason I got a triangle and it got never sent.

Problem is my bitcoins seem to be gone??

I resetted the blockchain and transactions three times already, but the transaction line with the triangle disappeared, as well as my bitcoins!

How can I get them back and where are they?

[Dr Charles]

can you provide a txid? or wallet address you attempted to send to/from?

[jim618]

If you see a triangle in the status it basically means the transaction was not sent to the Bitcoin network successfully.

When you do a reset blockchain and transactions it resyncs your wallet to what is on the blockchain.
It is what is on the blockchain that is definitive.

[Steed]

Thanks for the input guys..

I think I understand what went wrong.

I think the balance of my Multibit was not correct when I tried to send 5BTC to another address..

My balance appeared to be 5.65 before transaction, but in reality is was 3.43 . So the transaction got rejected because I tried sending BTC that didn't exist.

I have multiple wallets with varying amounts of bitcoin, so it can get a little confusing. Luckily I keep a log in Excel for all my transactions and when I carefully consulted it, it seemed the 5.65 couldn't have been right (although the wallet said 'online').

So they aren't gone luckily!

[Dr Charles]

Congrats... 5 BTC would have been a hell of a loss lol

[barrerboy]

My granddaughter is trying to send me 1 BTC with multibit, her program shows it is sent but blockchain.info shows it still there. She thinks she may have been offline when she sent it.

You wrote:
"If you see a triangle in the status it basically means the transaction was not sent to the Bitcoin network successfully.

When you do a reset blockchain and transactions it resyncs your wallet to what is on the blockchain.
It is what is on the blockchain that is definitive."

How exactly do you do a reset?

[shorena]

My granddaughter is trying to send me 1 BTC with multibit, her program shows it is sent but blockchain.info shows it still there. She thinks she may have been offline when she sent it.

You wrote:
"If you see a triangle in the status it basically means the transaction was not sent to the Bitcoin network successfully.

When you do a reset blockchain and transactions it resyncs your wallet to what is on the blockchain.
It is what is on the blockchain that is definitive."

How exactly do you do a reset?

Multibit -> Tools (menu bar at the top) -> Reset blockchain and transactions -> new tab opens -> click Reset blockchain and transactions - let it sync

Multibit HD -> Manage wallet -> Repair wallet -> Next -> let it sync

[barrerboy]

Oops, have found reset and sent instructions to granddaughter, will report on result.

Thank you Shorena, your reply came in while I am typing this.

I sent all my children and grandchildren 1 BTC for Christmas, Dec 2014. Heady days, worth $1000 Mt. Gox said! Offering to buy it back from all of them now for $300. I think Bitcoin has a way to go before muggles can easily trade and safely store it.