how long to transfer coins directly from the client?

[CoinMan]

wow that was fast

"1/unconfirmed"  Soo I'm gonna have to have a talk with this guy lol


thanks again, I'm glad I found this place , now all I need to do is get my computer out of the stone age and start mining!

  welcome to the revolution!

[theymos]

Blockexplorer will normally appear to be 1 block behind because their counting starts at 0 rather than 1.

Bitcoin Block Explorer counts the same way Bitcoin does. It just has a slight delay.

[Dude65535]

Ah I just assumed since the software seems to list number of blocks instead of block number there would be a difference of one since the first block was number 0.

[DigitalAsh]

wow that was fast

"1/unconfirmed"  Soo I'm gonna have to have a talk with this guy lol


thanks again, I'm glad I found this place , now all I need to do is get my computer out of the stone age and start mining!

  welcome to the revolution!

lol I do feel like I'm privy to some top secret information, whenever I mention buying/mining bitcoins people are like "lol are you serious?" just wait til they see

[theymos]

Ah I just assumed since the software seems to list number of blocks instead of block number there would be a difference of one since the first block was number 0.

Both Bitcoin and BBE consider the genesis block to be block 0. Bitcoin's getblockcount is named very misleadingly (for historical reasons): it actually reports the block number instead of the block count. There's actually getblockcount+1 blocks if you count the genesis block.

[Dude65535]

You can wait as long as you want. Its the credentials for spending your coins that are stored on your computer not the coins them self.

Well the coins are stored on your computer but also every other computer with a copy of the block chain.

[sequence]

Is anyone else having problems with the client. I have waited so long to get my bitcoins transferred to my client from Mt Gox. I know its not Mt Gox, my transaction shows on block explorer, but for some reason I fluctuate from 1 to 2 connections only, with no change in block number. Opened port 8333 on my router, updated to 0.3.22 and still no luck. Can any one help?

[jashan]

So I am also having an issue with a large delay in transferring bitcoins from Mt Gox to Bitcoin client. It has been over 2 hours with 1 connection and no change in block number . I wasn't having this problem two days ago. I hope my coins are not in limbo and lost somewhere!

I've had "1 connection" until I configured port forwarding in my router to forward 8333 to the machine I have Bitcoin running on. Now I usually get 100+ connections, and my blocks update really quick. ATM, it says 128786 blocks for me (I just started Bitcoin up, so this may not be perfectly up to date).

[sequence]

I checked port 8333 on canyouseeme.org.  Everything checks out, but still 1 connection.  I'll try again later.

[IIOII]

I checked port 8333 on canyouseeme.org.  Everything checks out, but still 1 connection.  I'll try again later.

I sometimes experience exactly the same problem but most of the time it fully connects. I did not modify my configuration.