Hi, new guy here.
I have a bittrex account with 1250 10K coins .... I would like to move a thousand of them to where ever it is that they need to go to begin getting the PoS . I've read the initial post, over and over, sorry , but I'm not understanding or seeing the link to set up a wallet. can somebody help me with that link please. this is the first time I will be setting up a wallet also, any chance of a step by step dummy proof explanation for that would be greatly appreciated.
I Got Spots ... Thanks for setting this up, I haven't been this excited about crypto's since I blew $800 x 6 buying my first bitcoins.
The thoughts of recouping a fraction of my losses had me sleepless last night!
I assume you have Windows 7 or 8.
1. Download wallet at this link as per the OP
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9KhUdXDh1RqRUQzeGRjVE9wU1k2. Bypass all warnings from your anti-virus and force the file to be downloaded and extracted. If Google Chrome moans use Windows Explorer
3. Extract the file in your download directory to the suggested directory ...\downloads\10k-Qt-win
4. Execute the file called 10k-Qt.exe in the directory where it was extracted. A wallet will come up with possibly some error messages. Just close the wallet once it has opened.
5. Goto the directory that the exe file created. You can find it in c:\users\yourwindowsaccountname\AppData\Roaming\10k
6. Inside that directory create a file called 10K.txt and rename it to 10k.conf
7. Post the following lines in the 10k.conf file
daemon=1
server=1
listen=1
maxconnections=100
rpcallowip=local
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcuser=coinerq
rpcpassword=coinerq1
rpcport=9999
addnode=98.174.25.33
addnode=23.92.61.98
addnode=104.236.222.217
addnode=37.59.18.108
addnode=94.190.246.163
addnode=96.236.59.185
addnode=81.152.225.30
addnode=81.164.5.200
The lines above the addnodes are not really necessary for your purpose but you can put them in as is.
8. Go back to your downloads directory where the .exe file was and run it again. The wallet will open again. This time it will connect to the network. You will see an error message at the bottom of the wallet that the the data is old. Don't worry about this as it is normal.
9. The wallet will begin downloading blocks. Blocks are records of transactions (coins sent from one address to another) that have been verified by the network. You can consider it a public ledger of a bunch of transactions. As the wallet processes the blocks and follow the trail of the money, you will see the number of blocks increasing up to the current block. This process can take 30min to 1 hour in this case for where the coin is in the scheme of things. (The proper Bitcoin wallet can take a week to download and process all the blocks). To watch the process you can select Help at the top, then Debug Window and then Information. The current block count is in the middle of the window. The blocks will increase as the wallet downloads and processes the blocks until it is current which was 112544 as of writing this. Once the wallet gets to this point, you will see a "correct mark" at the bottom right of the wallet. If you hover over this with your mouse, you will get a popup that the wallet is up to date.
10. Insert a USB stick into your PC and create a directory called 10K. Go to the directory where you created the 10k.conf file. Copy a file called wallet.dat to the memory stick into the 10K directory. Rename the file wallet.dat.old
11. Go to your wallet and select Settings at the top and select encrypt. It will ask you for a password that you have to enter twice. Select a difficult password and write it down somewhere safe and remember it. The wallet will close and then open it again. Now your wallet file is encrypted and money cannot be stolen from it without knowing the password.
12. Go back to where your wallet.dat file is and copy the file again to your memory stick. You must now store the memory stick in a safe place like a physical safe. if something ever happens to your wallet file, you can use the backup one. If you want to be extra security, you can encrypt the USB stick with Bitlocker and remember the password.
13. Go to Bittrex exchange to your 10K balance and select withdraw. Go to your wallet and select the receive coins at the top. Right click and copy the address. Go to Bittrex and enter that address in the withdraw address block. Enter just 1 coin in the mount for now. Select withdraw. A popup will come up with the transaction about tho happen. the address where it will go to will have the last two digits cut-off which is a Bittrex issue. Enter your 2FA if it was setup and let it withdraw.
14. Now you wait and watch your wallet until a popup comes up bottom right that 1 coin has been received. Once this happens, go back to Bittrex and withdraw the rest of the balance.
15. If all went well your coins will now be in your wallet on your PC.
16. Go back to Bittrex to your 10K balance. Generate a 10K address on the left of the screen. Right click and copy that. Go back to your wallet and select Address Book at the top. Create a new address and paste the Bittrex address there and call it Bittrex.
17. Select "send coins" at the top of your wallet and select the name "Bittrex" that you just created. This is needed so that you don't have to manually enter the address every time. This is one of the the biggest risks in crypto to send coins to an incorrect address as they will be gone then forever. I wish exchanges would create a facility to traders to create address books on the exchange. Enter 1 coin again and select send. You have to enter your password and agree to the small transaction fee. Watch Bittrex to make sure that the 1 coin appears there after a while. You now know that you have a proper two way channel between your wallet and exchange.
18. Go back to your wallet. The message at the bottom of the wallet to the left of the up arrow will say that your wallet is encrypted and locked. Next to it will be a circle with an up arrow and a message if you hover over it that your wallet is not staking because your wallet is locked (encrypted)
19. Go to the top of your wallet and select Help and then Debug window and then console. In the bottom bar type the following command:
"walletpassphrase yourwalletpassword 99999999 true" if successful you will see this command in green in the console. Now click the little "-" sign to the right of that bar so that it clears the screen. Close the console window.
20. If you hover over the little up arrow it will say "Your wallet is not staking because you do not have mature coins". After one hour this message will disappear and your coins while be staking. After several stakes you will get to a point where your stake becomes 0.00 coins. Once this happens, move your coins to another address (I use another wallet on another PC) and then move it back so that your coin age can reset. Your coins will mature again for an hour after which it will start staking again.
PS:
21. Everytime you send money from your wallet somewhere else, your wallet will lock up again. You then have to go back to the console and enter the walletpassphrase like above to unlock it for staking.
22. Everytime you hit a stake (verify a block of transactions) also called solve a block, your balance of coins will reduce and move to a different line. For a while it might also disappear until the required number of confirmations have occurred. You can watch the progress in the transactions tab at the top of your wallet. Once the required confirmations have happened, the coins become available again in your wallet and the coins that staked are reset and have to mature for an hour again before they can become eligible for staking again.
23. Sometimes you will see a message popup that you have received a stake amount of coins, but if you go to the transactions tab it is grey with a question mark next to it. This means that your wallet thought it solved the block but actually someone else did and the network rejected your claim. It is called an orphan block. Ignore those but feel sad for a moment that you did not get those coins.
24. It is possible to create more receiving addresses in your wallet for in case you want to use a unique address for each time you receive money from someone or some place. Every time you add a new receiving address, you have to fetch your USB stick from the safe, rename the wallet.dat file there to wallet.dat.old2,3,4 etc. and copy the new wallet.dat to the USB stick. The only drawback is that if you ever forget your wallet password, all later wallet.dat files will be encrypted and the first unencrypted one will only have your first address in it. You can therefore consider creating 50 or so addresses before you encrypt the wallet.dat file, if you foresee using unique addresses a lot.
