Have to put in a rant against ETH too...
Second biggest crypto by market cap... Highly influential devs, massive community... and they can't even get their official wallet to run. Impossible to send any coins or tokens, latest release 0.11.x just buggy as fukc. Absolutely shambolic.
I want to sell the few ETH I have left. And even that I can't do at the moment. Unbelievable.
Second biggest crypto by market cap... Highly influential devs, massive community... and they can't even get their official wallet to run. Impossible to send any coins or tokens, latest release 0.11.x just buggy as fukc. Absolutely shambolic.
I want to sell the few ETH I have left. And even that I can't do at the moment. Unbelievable.
You can always just use MEW by importing your private key or wallet file, I wouldn't recommend this however.
Just use the command line and make a raw transaction and just broadcast it with a block explorer.
I've posted the instructions a few posts back to Philipma1957.
Besides the Bitcoin wallet, it seems most coins have a buggy wallet. I think Monero's is the worst actually.
TBH yes, the Monero wallet was never a joy to use, but at least you could send and receive coins. The ETH wallet has always been a pos. Now it just takes the biscuit.
EDIT: can't seem to get anywhere with GETH either, it's only importing block headers (even with syncmode --light). Nothing I can type. Any clues?
These are my instructions for ubuntu but should be similiar for windows. Basically its what I used for cold storage so it should work without downloading any of the headers.
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sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential golang
download https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo chown -R root:root ./go
sudo mv go /usr/local
sudo nano ~/.profile
export GOPATH=$HOME/work
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin
source ~/.profile
cd go-ethereum
make geth
? cp build/bin/geth /usr/bin
run /home/ubuntu/Desktop/go-ethereum-master/build/bin/geth console
personal.newAccount("passphrase")
personal.unlockAccount(eth.accounts[2], "my pwd here")
eth.signTransaction({ from: "SOURCE_ADDRESS", to: "DESTINATION_ADDRESS", value: web3.toWei(3210, "ether"), nonce: 40 })
git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential golang
download https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar xvf go1.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo chown -R root:root ./go
sudo mv go /usr/local
sudo nano ~/.profile
export GOPATH=$HOME/work
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin
source ~/.profile
cd go-ethereum
make geth
? cp build/bin/geth /usr/bin
run /home/ubuntu/Desktop/go-ethereum-master/build/bin/geth console
personal.newAccount("passphrase")
personal.unlockAccount(eth.accounts[2], "my pwd here")
eth.signTransaction({ from: "SOURCE_ADDRESS", to: "DESTINATION_ADDRESS", value: web3.toWei(3210, "ether"), nonce: 40 })
Just the last 4 lines are all you need
Run geth with the console setting "geth console"
Make a new wallet and use any password (you wont use this wallet)
After that a new directory should be created in your folder, I think its called "wallets" go there and erase the new wallet and replace with your wallet you want to use.
Unlock using
personal.unlockAccount(eth.accounts[0], "my pwd here")
Write a raw transaction using
eth.signTransaction({ from: "SOURCE_ADDRESS", to: "DESTINATION_ADDRESS", value: web3.toWei(3210, "ether"), nonce: 40 })
3210, is how much ether to send
40 is the nonce, if sending for the first time from that address use 0 or 1 (i forgot which ). If you enter the wrong nonce, it will just get rejected, no big deal.
GO to any ETH block explorer and broadcast your transaction hash.
