Did I just lose $200 worth of BTC? | Bitcointalksearch.org

CJGoodings

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Quote from: WhiteBS on September 01, 2012, 09:29:58 PM

How long does it take for the blocks to download, its been several days already...these transactions I see of people doing like 85,000BTC how the hell are they getting that much thats almost 1million if im not mistaken, how do I become a high roller lol?

*sigh* the good ol days.

WhiteBS

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lmao, that would be nice, I should start taking like $100 from each paycheck and investing in bitcoins, probably going to be a lot more profitable than in my savings account earning only 2% lol.

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Quote from: WhiteBS on September 01, 2012, 09:29:58 PM

. . . these transactions I see of people doing like 85,000BTC how the hell are they getting that much thats almost 1million if im not mistaken, how do I become a high roller lol?

Either travel back in time to when they were cheap to buy and easy to mine, or start up a successful business that accepts bitcoin.

Who knows, maybe in a few years people will be saying, "these transaction I see of people doing like 10 BTC, how the hell are they getting that much? That's almost 1 million USD if I'm not mistaken. How do I become a high roller lol?"

WhiteBS

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How long does it take for the blocks to download, its been several days already...these transactions I see of people doing like 85,000BTC how the hell are they getting that much thats almost 1million if im not mistaken, how do I become a high roller lol?

Snapman

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Ive have that happen to me atleast once a month, dont worry. Should be a ok when the chain dl is complete.

live627

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Yes. Your money should come when all blocks are downloaded.

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: WhiteBS on September 01, 2012, 09:22:31 PM

Bitcoin says 6459 blocks remaining and 96.72% completed. Will my funds arrive at 100%? I dont believe bitcoin was open when I sent the money but I could be wrong.
I dont understand what the tx id is, nor how to search it on blockchain.

No worries. you'll see the coins when the blocks finish downloading, probably a little bit before that even.

WhiteBS

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Bitcoin says 6459 blocks remaining and 96.72% completed. Will my funds arrive at 100%? I dont believe bitcoin was open when I sent the money but I could be wrong.
When I punch my bitcoin address on blockchain it says I received 21.xxxx btc, however its still not showing up Sad

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: WhiteBS on September 01, 2012, 09:08:27 PM

Okay, here's another question, I withdrew 21btc from MTgox to my bitcoin address about 3 days ago, the btc still have not shown up in my wallet... I contact mtgox support and they said it was processed on their end... is that site some sort of scam or am I doing something wrong?

Was your bitcoin client open when they sent you the coins?
Since you deleted the blockchain to fix the previous error did your bitcoin client finished downloading it?
If you have a tx id you can check on blockchain.info if the coins are on the address you sent them to or not. You can even check it without the tx id just by checking the address balance.

WhiteBS

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Okay, here's another question, I withdrew 21btc from MTgox to my bitcoin address about 3 days ago, the btc still have not shown up in my wallet... I contact mtgox support and they said it was processed on their end... is that site some sort of scam or am I doing something wrong?

king_pin

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A little bit off topic, but sometimes a wallet gives errors when you change your data end time. I found that the hard way my clock was set 3-4 years back and the client f**ked up, but after I reset it everything was OK

DannyHamilton

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Quote from: Fiyasko on August 30, 2012, 10:26:45 PM

. . . Psy, He's so helpful . . .

^this^

kjj

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Odds are pretty good that it was just addr.dat that you needed to delete. That is the culprit like 90% of the time. The good news is that the latest RC has swapped that out for a less annoying system.

The logs should indicate which file is causing the problem.

myrkul

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Had this happen to me once when my system took a dump while I was downloading the blockchain. Several hours (days - slow-ass blockchain) later, I had my Bitcoins back by following exactly those instructions, Psy. Is this in the Wiki?

If not, it should be.

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: Fiyasko on August 30, 2012, 10:26:45 PM

He means do like a checkdisk for errors.
*sigh* I hate how many people have hit "ignore" on Psy, He's so helpful...

13+... I must be doing something right Wink

WhiteBS

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Quote from: Fiyasko on August 30, 2012, 10:26:45 PM

He means do like a checkdisk for errors.
*sigh* I hate how many people have hit "ignore" on Psy, He's so helpful...

Yea that was such a quick answer I was shitting a brick when bitcoin wouldn't load for me lol.

Fiyasko

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Okey Dokey Lokey

He means do like a checkdisk for errors.
*sigh* I hate how many people have hit "ignore" on Psy, He's so helpful...

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: WhiteBS on August 30, 2012, 10:22:45 PM

Quote from: Raoul Duke on August 30, 2012, 10:14:04 PM

Don't worry. No bitcoins are lost.

Go to your home dir and press CTRL+H to show hidden folders and go to the folder named .bitcoin.
IMPORTANT Take a backup of the .bitcoin folder contents to another location.
Now delete all files EXCEPT the one named wallet.dat.
Start bitcoin-qt again and see if it works.

It will download the blockchain again, so it will take time.

You sir are a fucking genius!!! Thank you so much that worked!

You didn't touch the wallet.dat file, right?
Also, it worked because you had some corrupted database files in there. You better check your filesystem for problems.
And don't forget to backup the wallet.dat file regularly to avoid losing your bitcoins Wink

WhiteBS

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Quote from: Raoul Duke on August 30, 2012, 10:14:04 PM

Don't worry. No bitcoins are lost.

Go to your home dir and press CTRL+H to show hidden folders and go to the folder named .bitcoin.
IMPORTANT Take a backup of the .bitcoin folder contents to another location.
Now delete all files EXCEPT the one named wallet.dat.
Start bitcoin-qt again and see if it works.

It will download the blockchain again, so it will take time.

You sir are a fucking genius!!! Thank you so much that worked!

Raoul Duke

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Quote from: Fiyasko on August 30, 2012, 10:19:58 PM

Quote from: Raoul Duke on August 30, 2012, 10:14:04 PM

Don't worry. No bitcoins are lost.

Go to your home dir and press CTRL+H to show hidden folders and go to the folder named .bitcoin.
IMPORTANT Take a backup of the .bitcoin folder contents to another location.
Now delete all files EXCEPT the one named wallet.dat.
Start bitcoin-qt again and see if it works.

It will download the blockchain again, so it will take time.

Aslong as you have a file named Wallet.dat
You have not lost your coins Yet.

I was assuming he didn't mess with the datadir.

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