Topic: Bitcoin QT not synching (Read 3770 times)
Have you tried to export the wallet to the blockchain.info site. If you have tried all that methods to solve and haven't made it, I guess you should't try to export your wallet.dat to the blockchain.
Appreciated. The transaction confirmed last night. I've made copies of the wallet. Is there anything else I could do for security or is that enough? BTW, who gets paid the transaction fees?
To secure an electurm wallet you have to #1 keep the seed safe (preferably offline), #2 have a strong password and #3 keep your machine free from malware. As long as you have your seed you can forget your password, as long as your password is strong enough and you have no keylogger on your system you can risk that the wallet file is stolen.
The fee is part of the reward for miners to find a block. Currently they also get a 25 BTC bonus, but over time the bonus will decrease (halfes every 4 years) and fees will be the only incentive for miners to find blocks.
Appreciated. The transaction confirmed last night. I've made copies of the wallet. Is there anything else I could do for security or is that enough? BTW, who gets paid the transaction fees?
Are you using a HD wallet? If so, just make a few copy of the seed and you're fine. Security wise, try using an antivirus and scan regularly. Of course, that isn't enough, you must ensure that you don't download anything suspicious or go to any suspicious website. If you want it to be extra safe, use an offline computer, download this script: https://github.com/pointbiz/bitaddress.org. And open the html with the browser. You can go to paper wallet, generate a paper wallet and print it. Optionally, you can encrypt it with BIP38, there's an option for that. You can then use a mobile phone with mycelium and use their cold storage feature to spend it in the future.Miners. They are given the incentive to mine your transaction for you. After the block rewards ends, the fee will be their only revenue. And also, they help to prevent network spam by making the cost higher, most miners confirm those with fees first.
Appreciated. The transaction confirmed last night. I've made copies of the wallet. Is there anything else I could do for security or is that enough? BTW, who gets paid the transaction fees?
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You got me 
Was trying to give a quick jump @ it during the btc crash and ultimately didn't read through the thread 
Don't burn me at the stake, please?
You got me Was trying to give a quick jump @ it during the btc crash and ultimately didn't read through the thread Don't burn me at the stake, please? Nah, no burnings today.
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Thanks once again. I didn't press the broadcast button. Now that I have the transaction is showing as pending in both wallets. Presumably it'll be confirmed soon enough. I'm still trying to get my head around how Bitcoin works. It seems very hit and miss to me at the moment, and risky and a bit stressful as a result. But at least now I have a functional walet that I can make some sense of thanks to all of you! Cheers.
Thanks once again. I didn't press the broadcast button. Now that I have the transaction is showing as pending in both wallets. Presumably it'll be confirmed soon enough. I'm still trying to get my head around how Bitcoin works. It seems very hit and miss to me at the moment, and risky and a bit stressful as a result. But at least now I have a functional walet that I can make some sense of thanks to all of you! Cheers.
It will get easier. If you have questions just ask.
Thanks. I've sent the contents of the temp wallet to a new seeded wallet. But the transaction hasn't shown up in the new wallet yet (or the old). I've saved a copy of the transaction. When I open it there's a 'broadcast' button. I haven't pressed that. How do I make sure the transaction has completed properly?
There should be a transaction ID, that looks somewhat like this 224d7baa8f57b5b7f275b671e7d412089b90bf4f061456729aff9ec373dac448
If you go to https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/ and enter your transaction ID into the search box it should show your transaction (with your addresses). If it does not, the transaction still needs to be broadcasted.
If the electrum wallet does not show it, try closing and reopening it. Sometimes this only works once the transaction is confirmed.
Thanks once again. I didn't press the broadcast button. Now that I have the transaction is showing as pending in both wallets. Presumably it'll be confirmed soon enough. I'm still trying to get my head around how Bitcoin works. It seems very hit and miss to me at the moment, and risky and a bit stressful as a result. But at least now I have a functional walet that I can make some sense of thanks to all of you! Cheers.
1.Close wallet.
2.Delete your 'blocks' and 'chainstate' folder in your 'C:/User/appdata/roaming/bitcoin/' folder.
3.Open wallet.
4.Profit.
***NOTE*** DO NOT DELETE WALLET.DAT FOLDER. In fact, this is an excellent time to back up that file as it contains all of your addresses and c0ainZ.
2.Delete your 'blocks' and 'chainstate' folder in your 'C:/User/appdata/roaming/bitcoin/' folder.
3.Open wallet.
4.Profit.
***NOTE*** DO NOT DELETE WALLET.DAT FOLDER. In fact, this is an excellent time to back up that file as it contains all of your addresses and c0ainZ.
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#2 think
#3 write.
You got me Was trying to give a quick jump @ it during the btc crash and ultimately didn't read through the thread Don't burn me at the stake, please? Thanks. I've sent the contents of the temp wallet to a new seeded wallet. But the transaction hasn't shown up in the new wallet yet (or the old). I've saved a copy of the transaction. When I open it there's a 'broadcast' button. I haven't pressed that. How do I make sure the transaction has completed properly?
There should be a transaction ID, that looks somewhat like this 224d7baa8f57b5b7f275b671e7d412089b90bf4f061456729aff9ec373dac448
If you go to https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/ and enter your transaction ID into the search box it should show your transaction (with your addresses). If it does not, the transaction still needs to be broadcasted.
If the electrum wallet does not show it, try closing and reopening it. Sometimes this only works once the transaction is confirmed.
1.Close wallet.
2.Delete your 'blocks' and 'chainstate' folder in your 'C:/User/appdata/roaming/bitcoin/' folder.
3.Open wallet.
4.Profit.
***NOTE*** DO NOT DELETE WALLET.DAT FOLDER. In fact, this is an excellent time to back up that file as it contains all of your addresses and c0ainZ.
2.Delete your 'blocks' and 'chainstate' folder in your 'C:/User/appdata/roaming/bitcoin/' folder.
3.Open wallet.
4.Profit.
***NOTE*** DO NOT DELETE WALLET.DAT FOLDER. In fact, this is an excellent time to back up that file as it contains all of your addresses and c0ainZ.
#1 read all the posts
#2 think
#3 write.
1.Close wallet.
2.Delete your 'blocks' and 'chainstate' folder in your 'C:/User/appdata/roaming/bitcoin/' folder.
3.Open wallet.
4.Profit.
***NOTE*** DO NOT DELETE WALLET.DAT FOLDER. In fact, this is an excellent time to back up that file as it contains all of your addresses and c0ainZ.
2.Delete your 'blocks' and 'chainstate' folder in your 'C:/User/appdata/roaming/bitcoin/' folder.
3.Open wallet.
4.Profit.
***NOTE*** DO NOT DELETE WALLET.DAT FOLDER. In fact, this is an excellent time to back up that file as it contains all of your addresses and c0ainZ.
Thanks. I've sent the contents of the temp wallet to a new seeded wallet. But the transaction hasn't shown up in the new wallet yet (or the old). I've saved a copy of the transaction. When I open it there's a 'broadcast' button. I haven't pressed that. How do I make sure the transaction has completed properly?
There should be a transaction ID, that looks somewhat like this 224d7baa8f57b5b7f275b671e7d412089b90bf4f061456729aff9ec373dac448
If you go to https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/ and enter your transaction ID into the search box it should show your transaction (with your addresses). If it does not, the transaction still needs to be broadcasted.
If the electrum wallet does not show it, try closing and reopening it. Sometimes this only works once the transaction is confirmed.
Thanks. I've sent the contents of the temp wallet to a new seeded wallet. But the transaction hasn't shown up in the new wallet yet (or the old). I've saved a copy of the transaction. When I open it there's a 'broadcast' button. I haven't pressed that. How do I make sure the transaction has completed properly?
Thanks. I've done that. Is the seeded wallet only necessary if you want the security of a seed phrase to recover your money in the event of a corrupted wallet? Or does a seeded wallet have other advantages?
If you check your wallet to send the coins to a change address, the wallet will send the change to a new address everytime. Clients like Bitcoin Core pregenerate 100 addresses and after the 100 address runs out, you will start using the other 100. However, older backup will never have the new 100 addresses if you only backup them at the start. You need to back them up regularly HD wallets have a seed which allows the client to generate predictable addresses and hence you only need a one time backup.
Thanks. I've done that. Is the seeded wallet only necessary if you want the security of a seed phrase to recover your money in the event of a corrupted wallet? Or does a seeded wallet have other advantages?
Ok, just read about sweeping. No, I put them in the wallet via the private keys. I was looking for a way to transfer them to a seeded wallet without paying a transaction fee.
You can only transfer them to a seeded wallet via the network. It is possible to pay no transaction fee when creating a transaction for the network, but its usually not a good idea. As ranchigo said, you need "priority" to get a transaction without fee confirmed. Bitcoins gain priority over time. Your 0.01 will roughly have the needed priority after 100 days. To avoid that the transaction is "in limbo" its better to pay a fee as electrum suggests. There is a setting called "dynamic fee" you should enable it. It estimates the lowest fee without a risk to get your transaction stuck.
If your fee is too low there is a chance that the transaction takes a long time (days) to confirm. E.g. the 10,000 transactions currently waiting for a confirmation.
Ok, just read about sweeping. No, I put them in the wallet via the private keys. I was looking for a way to transfer them to a seeded wallet without paying a transaction fee.
The lesser the transaction fees you pay, the harder it is for miners to have incentive to confirm it for you. A fee of 0.0001BTC isn't too much right? 
However, you can send one if it has sat in your wallet for a long time and it has a high value.* Would you revealing the address so we can check out the inputs?Edit:* And you don't mind waiting for sometime eg. a few days.
Edit edit: Transactions are prioritized according to priority and/or fee. Hence, the higher the priority, the easier it is for miner to confirm your transaction. If the network load is high, the probability decreases.
Ok, just read about sweeping. No, I put them in the wallet via the private keys. I was looking for a way to transfer them to a seeded wallet without paying a transaction fee.
Thanks Ranochigo. What is sweeping? I saw that function listed on one of the menus.
I need to read up on how this all works obviously.
I need to read up on how this all works obviously.
Shorena/ anyone, is there a way to transfer coins to another electrum wallet without paying a transaction fee? Could it be done with the private keys for example?
Yes. Have you sweeped it already? If yes, then go to tool, preference and check set transaction fees manually. Go to send and you can select your own fees. I suggest you not to try to do so. It would reject your transaction if does not have enough priority, any of the output is below 0.01BTC or if the size is above 1kb. Pay some fees or you could end up like this: https://blockchain.info/tx/7917f91cedf270a53b6450e6d8165d97175f957005773a4428c42f84ad7d8083.
Shorena/ anyone, is there a way to transfer coins to another electrum wallet without paying a transaction fee? Could it be done with the private keys for example?
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