I have an older MacBook with Bitcoin-Qt. I sent my few BTC from there to my email address on Coinbase. They never came there. My Bitcoin-Qt says unconfirmed but my balance is now 0. How do I recover from this and get my BTC back?
Your description doesn't make sense. I don't think you've described your situation properly.
You state that you sent your few bitcoins
FROM MacBook with
Bitcoin-Qt TO your
email address on Coinbase?
This is not possible. Bitcoin-QT will not accept an email address as a destination for bitcoins. It will tell you that it is an invalid address.
If you are sending FROM Bitcoin-QT, then you have to use a Bitcoin Address.
If you were sending to a Coinbase address, then either:
- The transaction is confirmed, and Coinbase has the bitcoins. In this case you will have to contact Coinbase and convince them to give you access to the bitcoins.
OR
- The transaction is unconfirmed. In this case you can tell Bitcoin-QT to abandon the transaction so you can send a new one wherever you like.
OR
- You accidentally used the wrong bitcoin address and sent the bitcoins somewhere that is NOT Coinbase, and that transaction has confirmed. In this case the only way to get the bitcoins back is to figure out who you actually sent them to and convince them to send the bitcoins back to you.
If you provide the bitcoin transaction ID from your Bitcoin-QT, then it might be possible to give you more information about what has happened, and what your options are.
