Topic: Armory (Read 571 times)

Just wanted to let those who helped me know that I finally got Armory to work and I now have my bitcoin in my wallet.  Because I had run bitcoin-qt.exe a couple of days ago all I had to do was download the latest version of it, which just came out yesterday (6-17-17), and run that.  Didn't take nearly as long as the first time.  I followed the rest of ClutchGP's instructions and all is well.  Thanks so much. 

Bitcoin Core should be synced with the latest blocks. The network finds a new block every 10 minutes on average so you will constantly need to update Core.

I do have another question.  I ran bitcoin-qt.exe once for a number of days and it said it was completed.  Do I need to run it again?

Thanks again.

One extra tip for this "0.96.1 testing build #3" version that you are gonna use if you experience crashes:

3B:  First start bitcoin core and let it sync up, then start armory with the bitcoin core still running as client.

Thank you so much for this detailed information. I will try that. If it took you three days on a SSD I'm wondering how long it will take me on an HDD ?

Babae,

I was in a very similar situation as yours earlier this week.  I focused on using Armory due to the offline wallet option without fully understanding bitcoin, blockchains and the complexity of the currency as a whole.  If you're looking to simply "get into it", Armory really isn't the right first choice.

Now, having said that, I'm good with it now and actually very glad I stuck it out and fought through the problems.  I naively sent $20USD from Coinbase to my Armory wallet long before Armory was "ready" to receive them.  This sounds a lot like what you're going through!  I gathered some insight through various posts here, and here's what did it for me:

1.  If you're working with the 0.96 version from the official website, scrap that.  Go get the 0.96.0.3 testing build from goatpig's github repository.  You can find it here: https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/releases  Install that over the top of the current version you have.

2.  Close Armory if it's open, and go to your Bitcoin base install location (Probably C:\Program Files\Bitcoin) and run "bitcoin-qt.exe".  Let that run for as long as it takes to tell you it's current.  This is pulling the entire blockchain down and making it ready, Armory needs this and in my experience has trouble keeping this process going without crashing in the background.  You'll pull down around 128Gb of blockchain data, in my case this took around 3 days to finish (i5/8Gb/SSD).

3.  Now once that's finished, clear out the files inside your Armory database directory.  In my case this was located at C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Armory\databases\.  Keep the databases folder, just delete all the contents within (ex. blkdata, headers, history, etc.)

4.  You're ready to start Armory again, open it as you normally would with the desktop icon.  It'll go through some initial organization steps, then you'll see it progress through the transaction verification stage.  This took a couple more hours in my case, but it's now happily connected and I have my insignificant amount of BTC available!  You'll know you're there when it says "Connected" in the lower right-hand corner with a number at or higher than 471782 blocks (current as of 1:10AM 6/18/2017 central time).

Hope that helps!  Stick with it, if you happen to be looking for investment/savings options the offline wallet is tops, really no substitute for it!

Extract the private key and import it into another wallet. If you don't know how to do that or what I'm talking about, spend about a week reading about Bitcoin and how it works before proceeding.

I did that and it still shows no money in my wallet.  I'd like to get the little bit of Bitcoin that I sent to Armory out.  Is there anyway I can do that or is it lost?

Don't troll other people's thread please.

Read my threads.

It is a hassle. 

You have to download the entire Bitcoin Blockchain apparantly. 160GB.  Takes days.

https://bitcoin.org/en/download

Trying to sweep to another wallet.

I only have 20usd lost in limbo.

The current block height is 471367 and you are currently behind. You have to start Bitcoin Core(Bitcoin-qt) and let it synchronize to the current block height. It can take sometime. Once its synchronized, you should see your balance.

385047 blocks.  It also says Node offline if that means anything.

Armory relies on an instance of Bitcoin Core on your local computer to get data from it. Your Bitcoin Core instance also needs to be synchronized.

How many blocks does the lower right corner indicate?

I downloaded Armory 0.96 and created some wallets.  I then sent $100 of bitcoin to one of the wallets as a test.  The transaction was confirmed with 58 confirmations but nothing shows up in Armory balance.  I'm a newbie at all of this so I don't really know what to do next.  Shouldn't my balance be in Armory by now?  Thanks.