Topic: help working out what I did with my BTC - page 2. (Read 1300 times)

As far as I can work out http://blockexplorer.com/t/4bFMkmT3Nr was probably my last transaction(s). If these were up to an exchange, would that explain the subsequent transactions?

I assume that when I sent BTC to an exchange and do nothing with it, the BTC doesn't just sit there doing nothing. I assume the balance is associated to my account but the BTC is pooled and stuff happens to it. Then when I withdraw my balance BTC gets sent to me form whatever is available in the exchange's system. So sort of like a bank rather than a deposit box?

If my assumption is correct then the lack of dead end could indicate it is in an exchange somewhere. Is there anything associated to transactions (familiar IP addresses etc.) that would indicate which exchange? Even if I've been ripped off, or an exchange has gone under, etc. I'd still want to know where they went rather than not knowing exactly for which reason I should be kicking myself  .

I do not see dead end in several "branches" from your split. Can you check blockexplorer (dot) com? maybe you'll have some clues where did you stoped your "own" transactions

That splitting makes sense - I remember wanting to do that so makes sense that I did. Wouldn't that split leave all my BTC at just two addresses with no further transactions? You say it looks like I (or someone, anyway) sent coins after that transaction, that's how it looks to me too. Would you say the blockchain looks consistent with further transactions and NOT with the dead-end I'd expect from a lost wallet.dat?

Initially just trying to work out if I can rule out a lost wallet.dat file or not.

Using Bitcoin-QT

As I see on blockexplorer, you have split your coins month ago. Notice there is timestamp 2013-04-07 22:29:17.
By checking blockchain further - It looks like you have used your bitcoin-qt to send coins, thus it generated new addresses and sent all remaining bitcoins back to these new addresses. And it looks like you've restored very old version of your wallet.dat backup which have outdated address pool

Are you using Bitcoin-Qt? Or some other wallet (Electrum, MultiBit)?

Hi all,

Feeling totally stupid here, so please be gentle.

I bought some BTC a while back and I using Bitcoin-QT.app (on Mac) I check in on them every now and then. Recently I decided to switch them from my desktop to my laptop. I moved the wallet.dat file over to my laptop and let the client sync. A transaction appeared at the top sending all my BTC away to an address with no label.

My immediate thoughts were:

I had copied my wallet.dat to my laptop some previous occasion without remembering, consolidated them all to a new address, closed the app and forgot. Then just recently when copying back to my laptop I overwrote the wallet.dat file and lost it all... and there's no way back. I should kick myself and then get over it.

OR

I transferred them to some online exchange and cannot remember which one. I have a login on several sites which don't show these BTC in the balance. It could be I sleep-transferred my BTC to some new exchange and promptly forgot.

I wondered if checking the blockchain I could work out which of these idiocies I am inflicted with. If it is the second one then I thought there was an outside chance someone would be able to help me work out which exchange I had sent them to.

The address my BTC were all sent to is: 1PqM5iqkP1LHxEm1ZCLQVxb6tuoTNnNLCD

If I search on blockchain.info this seems to have split the coins into two addresses: 12YFP8qdKg4xbWugXvcDAeenKUUkqAtNxm and 171wBfYRt1btkd53wLbw3wvmRpx7HcSfMy (that could be me splitting into some to keep and some to sell). Both of these addresses have further transactions they have been involved in. If I had deleted a wallet.dat file with them in I would expect to find an address dead-end with no further transactions - all the BTC sitting there forever tormenting me.

Can anyone confirm that it doesn't look like I deleted my coins, and that they have all gone circulating onwards... does the pattern look consistent with being sent to an exchange? And does anyone know what exchange it might be?