I recently seemed to have lost my bitcoin after downloading Multibit and transferring my BTC to my offline Multibit wallet from an online exchange. I am a total newb, go figure. Anyway, I saved the multibit application on a USB drive (where I thought my wallet file was also, I now realize it is automatically saved to the C: drive with multibit). I tested the USB drive and my multibit wallet several times , pulling in and out of the same offline computer where my wallet came up with my full balance of BTC every time. Then I tried to access my wallet from a secondary offline computer. When I did that the following error message appeared in multibit:
Unable to load "
https://multibit.org/version.txt". The error was "java.net.UnknownHostException multibit.org".
Now ever since this my wallet has a 0 balance of BTC regardless of what computer I try to access my wallet on.
I am not sure if my first wallet file was just never saved and I lost my BTC forever, (because like an idiot newb with a severe lack of technical experience I did not export my wallet to be backed up somewhere yet. I actually thought that I did do that, but it was only the MultiBit application, not the actual wallet file. However this is confusing because MultiBit saves your wallet files automatically on the C drive so I am not sure why it would not have the first time around) or if it has something to do with the message above and that I am using my original wallet file.
I will make a good donation to anyone that can help me recover my BTC.
I am fascinated by monetary theory and the concept of BTC, but am obviously a newb in the tech world. I am sure this has been stated by several before me, but Bitcoin applications have to be developed that are completely idiot proof for a non tech person. This is the only way BTC will ever make it mainstream and become viable to the masses.