Lost Bitcoin

[Donne]

I had 0.008 bitcoin in Multibit. I sent 0.001 bit coin elsewhere and the balance remaining showed. I tried to send the remainder to another destination but the wallet showed up as empty - any ideas how to get the balance back??

[Iranus]

Multibit is no longer maintained and is therefore buggy.  You'll want to get your coins out of there as soon as possible.

If you're having problems sending with them, try exporting your private keys into a different wallet where you can spend your coins.

Note:  when making a post, you don't have to make it a poll.  You can click on "new topic" instead of "post new poll" and make it significantly less annoying.

[cryptohorsee]

I had 0.008 bitcoin in Multibit. I sent 0.001 bit coin elsewhere and the balance remaining showed. I tried to send the remainder to another destination but the wallet showed up as empty - any ideas how to get the balance back??

I think that you just simply lost your btc on a fee, the fee is pretty high right now and it is now  67,800 satoshis. That is like 10$ so yea your bitcoins were not lost but spent on transaction fee.

[batang_bitcoin]

I had 0.008 bitcoin in Multibit. I sent 0.001 bit coin elsewhere and the balance remaining showed. I tried to send the remainder to another destination but the wallet showed up as empty - any ideas how to get the balance back??

Show us the TXID of it so that we can see if you paid too much for the fee. You may not recognize it but there's something that makes the fees too high right now.

Note:  when making a post, you don't have to make it a poll.  You can click on "new topic" instead of "post new poll" and make it significantly less annoying.

Haha I just noticed it too, we have no choice but to help!  

[Mei1418]

you may forget to give your private key to the public, this can happen because you are in default condition, or maybe you incorrectly entered the amount in trading or transactions

[MiningSensei]

You sent 0.001 bitcoins and yo uhad 0.008 bitcoins in there, the transaction fees are about 70k satoshis right now (it means, 0.007) you probably sent that money and you were not aware of the tx fees that are around that price, it is difficult to understand but you have not lost your bitcoins, you have just paid the full amount of money that you sent + the transaction fees.
Please, try to investigate a little bit more before creating this kind of threads in this forum that encourages spam.

[maryanti]

I think your money has not gone yet. There is still some left over from your delivery. Try refresh again, probably because of the network in your place or anything else that causes your BTC to disappear.

[btcpepa04]

You can cancel the no-confirmation transaction

[TomUyamot]

Multibit is no longer maintained and is therefore buggy.  You'll want to get your coins out of there as soon as possible.

If you're having problems sending with them, try exporting your private keys into a different wallet where you can spend your coins.

Note:  when making a post, you don't have to make it a poll.  You can click on "new topic" instead of "post new poll" and make it significantly less annoying.

Here is a Hero Member talking. You better listen and heed his advice. If you are doubting where your Bitcoins went, check your transactions. I am 100% sure it is all there. And if there was not transaction of your remaining Bitcoins that are lost, you better raise the concern to the support team of Multibit. Perhaps they will be able to help you. But if indeed it was withdrawn from your account, then there is nothing else you can do to it.

[akmittal]

I had 0.008 bitcoin in Multibit. I sent 0.001 bit coin elsewhere and the balance remaining showed. I tried to send the remainder to another destination but the wallet showed up as empty - any ideas how to get the balance back??

Lost Bitcoin can't be recovered. This is the main problem with the Bitcoin. I think there should be a communication facility with the wallet address.
Why you want a poll on it I am unable to understand, no poll.

[Shreek]

I do not think you can return it again, because it is very difficult. it means your wallet is not safe, I suggest that you create a new wallet. then secure your wallet back, take a lesson from what has happened, do not get your coin lost again.

[Tux99]

I think that you just simply lost your btc on a fee, the fee is pretty high right now and it is now  67,800 satoshis. That is like 10$ so yea your bitcoins were not lost but spent on transaction fee.

Ow my god. $10 for quite big for me as newbie who have less bitcoin.
So sending fee is more than amount sent.

[Donne]

Good morning from Spain to all who have responded and I thank you all. I am also thankful that my problem does not concern my life savings at only 0.008 BTC!

Firstly I am not at all technical and I am a nervous user of bitcoin and all the associated technical matters. Nice to grow money from nothing but first must understand how it all works. There's an awful lot of jargon that noone explains!

I have found this forum difficult to use and don't understand what a "poll" is and am sorry if I caused inconvenience to anyone. I am pleased however that my post brought so many replies. Many fora do not!

In fact , by what means I am not sure, I recovered my BTC on multibit. It now shows 0.008BTC received 1 Dec 2013 and has done so for all that time. It then shows 9 Nov 2017 0.0011 sent to the address I obtained from Electrum. In fact I sent 0.001BTC and the extra must be a 10% fee(?). The residual balance is shown, correctly at 0.0069BTC but the "spendable" is zero! BUT the transaction also remains unconfirmed and the transfer hasn't reached Electrum. One of the posts suggested cancelling it but I cannot see how to do this on multibit. I have refreshed / reset the blockchain and this took all night! No change in status
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I took the advice kindly offered and exported the key to my wallet but cannot see how to import them (and hence the balance) elsewhere.

I did not find Electrum easy to understand though I have set up a zero balance wallet there.

I have now found Coinbase which looks much easier to use and have registered there as far as I can, but even there it will not allow me to upload documentation of identity. I have followed this up on their Support but await a response.

Any help or guidance will be very much appreciated and acknowledged and I thank you all again for help so far!

[dificanovi]

I had 0.008 bitcoin in Multibit. I sent 0.001 bit coin elsewhere and the balance remaining showed. I tried to send the remainder to another destination but the wallet showed up as empty - any ideas how to get the balance back??

I think that you just simply lost your btc on a fee, the fee is pretty high right now and it is now  67,800 satoshis. That is like 10$ so yea your bitcoins were not lost but spent on transaction fee.

I think that way, you definitely lose BTC because of the expensive transaction cost. I suggest you have to save more BTC so that after doing your BTC shipping still much left. besides, if you want to do delivery must be careful to avoid errors.

[Ryan Dugan]

Noone can or should help you if you don't bother giving us more info like at least the tx.
You should also try sending more btc at once since the transaction fee would be fairly high in comparison to what you sending.

[Donne]

"No one can or should help" - thank's very kind of you! I don't know what a TX is so my technical knowledge is extremely limited. If you only respond helpfully to experts, it is disappointing.

[perrysaico]

Also had this experience last  time.It seems I lost .006 BTC on fees? that is too high!!
I tried to inquire but no one could explain.