How Many Confirmations Needed?

[Deathwing]

How many confirmations needed for a large amount of bitcoins? A friend sent some bitcoins to me he got 8 confirmations but i cant see the bitcoins on my Blockchain.info wallet why?

[Badabing]

Someone send me 30 bitcoins and it show on the blockchain even it does not have any confirmation yet.

[Deathwing]

Its way larger than 30.

[DannyHamilton]

Someone send me 30 bitcoins and it show on the blockchain even it does not have any confirmation yet.

No, it doesn't.

The definition of a "confirmation" is to be in a block on "the blockchain".  If it is in a block on "the blockchain", then you have a confirmation (although your wallet might not be showing that confirmation if it isn't properly synchronized).

Note, that blockchain.info is not "the blockchain".  blockchain.info is just a website someone created that has a lot of useful bitcoin related information.  They decided to call their website blockchain.info.  It is a very useful website, and many people like and rely on it, but there is nothing "official" about it.  If you see a transaction at blockchain.info, it is not necessarily on "the blockchain", since blockchain.info also lists all the transactions that are in the memory pool (and therefore not yet on the blockchain.

[Deathwing]

How many confirmations needed for a large amount of bitcoins? A friend sended some bitcoins to me he got 8 confirmations but i cant see the bitcoins on my Blockchain.info wallet why?

Which wallet are you using, they each work a bit differently, so your question can't be accurately answered without this information:

• Armory
• Bitcoin-Qt
• MultiBit
• Electrum
• https://blockchain.info/wallet

Blockchain.info

[DannyHamilton]

How many confirmations needed for a large amount of bitcoins? A friend sended some bitcoins to me he got 8 confirmations but i cant see the bitcoins on my Blockchain.info wallet why?

Which wallet are you using, they each work a bit differently, so your question can't be accurately answered without this information:

• Armory
• Bitcoin-Qt
• MultiBit
• Electrum
• https://blockchain.info/wallet

Blockchain.info

Sorry about that. I see that now. I don't know how I missed it.

That's really odd.  You may need to contact Piuk (our local blockchain.info expert).  Send him a PM.

If it isn't a bug at the blockchain.info website then the only reason I can think of that a blockchain.info wallet wouldn't display a transaction that had received a confirmation would be if your friend somehow accidentally sent to the wrong address.