Disappearing Bitcoins[Solved by updating the client] - page 2.

Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: BookLover on November 26, 2011, 06:02:52 PM

I did the math on the transactions and it doesn't add up.

Are you saying when you add up the transactions that the client shows, they do not result in the balance that the bitcoin client shows? Or are you saying the client isn't showing transactions that you know were made?

BookLover

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^Bitcoin Library of Congress.

I'm missing something here. Doesn't the wallet key pool prevent this from happening unless you have over 100 transactions since you last backup??

Could you please give me your definition of a deterministic wallet?

Feel free to ask questions or give opinions, I need all the help I can get.

JoelKatz

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Democracy is vulnerable to a 51% attack.

Unless you know exactly what you're doing (or are using a deterministic wallet), you need to make a new backup of your wallet after every time you send bitcoins. Otherwise, you may not have the private keys necessary to claim the change from your previous transactions.

BookLover

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^Bitcoin Library of Congress.

Today I unencrypted a wallet to send some BTC but when I booted up the client some of my BTC coins were missing. Huh

Here is the background/technical information:

I had previously used the wallet and not bothered to make a new encrypted backup because I figured I could just use the rescan function.
I only used it two or three times without making a new encrypted backup, so I doubt the key pool ran out.
The version is 0.3.15.4 beta
I did the math on the transactions and it doesn't add up.
The client is on a Windows7 computer.
I didn't create any new addresses.

I have no idea what went wrong and I hope there is a simple answer to this.

P.S. Before you ask I have all the blocks. Wink

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