Where or where have my bitcoins gone?

[yogi]

All the coins in those addresses where lost to Satoshi-dice. And that happened last year.

Oops, so they have, I was looking at 'funds received' and not 'final balance'  

[donbenosee]

All the coins in those addresses where lost to Satoshi-dice. And that happened last year.

Oops, so they have, I was looking at 'funds received' and not 'final balance'  

I'm getting more and more confused. I didn't gamble the 50 BTC..

[Blazr]

I've been browing throguh the blockchain for a while now and think I know whats going on.

http://blockchain.info/address/133r7YFYeppNXcPdH4V3aYjkNBgpK13cQi
http://blockchain.info/address/13Em2vyhUGX3Yh75vfFcfKdsE946YXPDsV
http://blockchain.info/address/15LS9PzkcDbHshfUSiQTHkEGU3xHatNNLo
http://blockchain.info/address/1CdAUybo8gDGLgdSkvjUP4fbBX14LFLShf
http://blockchain.info/address/1CVX2A8dEPJnV62ey7kEuoNhuAUKvJrDLj

You own those addresses, they are in your bitcoin-qt client, they are change addresses and each contain a few BTC, last one has 10BTC.

I haven't used bitcoin-qt in a while now, but AFAIK it hides change addresses from the GUI.

Try doing a rescan: Bitcoin-qt.exe -rescan and then try sending to a blockchain address again.

Also, just incase you are worried, you haven't lost your BTC, that would be very difficult to do without deleting your wallet.dat.

[Anon136]

here's the transaction from my qt client: https://i.imgur.com/vEu5BF9.jpg

This screen shot shows a transaction from January ?
Why is the date 1/3/2013?  .

I'm in Australia, 1/3/2013 means 1st March this side of the pond.

Yeah only Americans and Canadians are a bit confused ( YYYY/MM/DD and DD/MM/YYYY make sense, MM/DD/YYYY does not )

i vote YYYY/MM/DD. A) its the most logical B) no one does it so everyone can be equally inconvenienced by the change!

egalitarianism ftw!

[Rampion]

All the coins in those addresses where lost to Satoshi-dice. And that happened last year.

No they weren't. Please, I'd rather get real info on this rather than speculation.

That's not speculation, that's what the blockchain says.

[BurtW]

All the coins in those addresses where lost to Satoshi-dice. And that happened last year.

No they weren't. Please, I'd rather get real info on this rather than speculation.

That's not speculation, that's what the blockchain says.

Yes, most, if not all of those coins from the two addresses posted were wasted at SD.

[wachtwoord]

Please take the following steps (I presume you use windows):

1) Go to: C:\Users\ACCOUNTNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin (switch in your accountname for ACCOUNTNAME)
2) Create a file there called bitcoin.conf
3) Add the line "server=1" in that file and save

4) Open a command prompt
5) Cd to INSTALLDIRECTORYOFBITCOIN/daemon  (most likely C:\program files\bitcoin\daemon)
6) Run bitcoind
7) Open a second command prompt and go to the same directory
Run Bitcoind.exe listtransactions
9) Paste the results here

Off-topic

i vote YYYY/MM/DD. A) its the most logical B) no one does it so everyone can be equally inconvenienced by the change!

egalitarianism ftw!

This format is being used. I'm sure it is used in Scandinavia but there are more countries. Look up the Wikipedia entry

[Anon136]

This format is being used. I'm sure it is used in Scandinavia but there are more countries. Look up the Wikipedia entry

good to know. If you do it that way then when you organize the entries alphabetically (numerically?) you also organize the dates chronologically. Its pretty obvious to me that this is the best way.

[wachtwoord]

This format is being used. I'm sure it is used in Scandinavia but there are more countries. Look up the Wikipedia entry

good to know. If you do it that way then when you organize the entries alphabetically (numerically?) you also organize the dates chronologically. Its pretty obvious to me that this is the best way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country

I agree, however dd/mm/yyyy is also at least in consecutive order. mm/dd/yyyy is just ..... stupid?

[donbenosee]

Please take the following steps (I presume you use windows):

1) Go to: C:\Users\ACCOUNTNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin (switch in your accountname for ACCOUNTNAME)
2) Create a file there called bitcoin.conf
3) Add the line "server=1" in that file and save

4) Open a command prompt
5) Cd to INSTALLDIRECTORYOFBITCOIN/daemon  (most likely C:\program files\bitcoin\daemon)
6) Run bitcoind
7) Open a second command prompt and go to the same directory
Run Bitcoind.exe listtransactions
9) Paste the results here

I tried this but when I try to run bitcoind it tells me 'to use bitcoind you must set an rpc password in the configuration file. It is recommended you use the following password - {redacted} questions: do I have to include the line rpcuser=bitcoinrpc and is there a minimum length for this password?

thanks

[wachtwoord]

You can put

Code:

rpcuser=anything
rpcpassword=whateveryouwant

in the bitcoin.conf file.

I don't remember needing this step, but perhaps I did always have a user and password specified. I don't know if there is a minimum length or not. Just give it a shot.

Sorry I skipped that step because I didn't knew it was necessary (of course I had it in my bitcoin.conf )

[donbenosee]

You can put

Code:

rpcuser=anything
rpcpassword=whateveryouwant

in the bitcoin.conf file.

I don't remember needing this step, but perhaps I did always have a user and password specified. I don't know if there is a minimum length or not. Just give it a shot.

Try, try again...I've done it all but it keeps telling me to do it again, dammit. I'm assuming using notepad to create the .conf file is okay?

So far I can't get this to work at all and now this step is driving me nuts!

[wachtwoord]

Notepad is fine.

1) Are you saving the file in the right location?

2) Did you name it correctly? Note: If you have disabled displaying extension Windows could be hiding the *.txt portion so it might be the true name of the file is bitcoin.conf.txt. If this is the case it will not work. So to by-pass this again we'll use the command prompt again
2a.) CD to C:\Users\ACCOUNTNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin (switch in your accountname for ACCOUNTNAME)
2b) type "dir" <Enter>. Do you see bitcoin.conf.txt ? Then type "ren bitcoin.conf.txt bitcoin.conf"

3) Is this the content of the file?

rpcuser=youruser
rpcpassword=PASSWORD
server=1

[donbenosee]

Notepad is fine.

1) Are you saving the file in the right location?

2) Did you name it correctly? Note: If you have disabled displaying extension Windows could be hiding the *.txt portion so it might be the true name of the file is bitcoin.conf.txt. If this is the case it will not work. So to by-pass this again we'll use the command prompt again
2a.) CD to C:\Users\ACCOUNTNAME\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin (switch in your accountname for ACCOUNTNAME)
2b) type "dir" <Enter>. Do you see bitcoin.conf.txt ? Then type "ren bitcoin.conf.txt bitcoin.conf"

3) Is this the content of the file?

rpcuser=youruser
rpcpassword=PASSWORD
server=1

Aha, mea culpa on the file extension; renamed, many thanks. It's definitely in usename/appdata/roaming/bitcoin...

Now its telling me "to use the -server option you must set a rpcpassword etc."

Tel me, where you wrote "rpcuser=youruser", what should 'youruser' be?

The content of the .conf file are as follows
rpcuser=bitcoinrpc
rpcpassword={redacted}
server=1

It's running now but it seems to be taking its time..

[donbenosee]

Ho long does bitcoind normally run for? An do I need to let it finish before I run -listtransactions?

[donbenosee]

Ho long does bitcoind normally run for? An do I need to let it finish before I run -listtransactions?

Are you saying that your local block chain was not up to date?

I dunno, am I ? Sorry, but it I have no idea...it did update in the qt client earlier today..

[wachtwoord]

Oh I think I get it  

It keeps running forever (it's a daemon thread the other command prompt will talk to) and you can run the other command prompt immediately.

(I'm not laughing at you, just how ridiculously limited natural language is at times )

[donbenosee]

Oh I think I get it  

It keeps running forever (it's a daemon thread the other command prompt will talk to) and you can run the other command prompt immediately.

(I'm not laughing at you, just how ridiculously limited natural language is at times )

Go ahead and laugh, I'm a big dumb boy, I can take it

I tried running -listtransactions in another window and got 'cannot obtain a lock on the data directory ....Bitcoin is probably already running.

The qt client isn't running though..

[the joint]

Oh I think I get it  

It keeps running forever (it's a daemon thread the other command prompt will talk to) and you can run the other command prompt immediately.

(I'm not laughing at you, just how ridiculously limited natural language is at times )

Go ahead and laugh, I'm a big dumb boy, I can take it

I tried running -listtransactions in another window and got 'cannot obtain a lock on the data directory ....Bitcoin is probably already running.

The qt client isn't running though..

Sometimes when I quit Bitcoin-Qt, it still appears in the list of "processes" in my task manager.  When it's listed there and I try to reopen Bitcoin-Qt, I get the same error message.  Try checking to see if it's listed there and close the process 'Bitcoin-Qt", then reopen it.

[wachtwoord]

Oh I think I get it  

It keeps running forever (it's a daemon thread the other command prompt will talk to) and you can run the other command prompt immediately.

(I'm not laughing at you, just how ridiculously limited natural language is at times )

Go ahead and laugh, I'm a big dumb boy, I can take it

I tried running -listtransactions in another window and got 'cannot obtain a lock on the data directory ....Bitcoin is probably already running.

The qt client isn't running though..

try it without the '-'

So: bitcoind.exe listransactions