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Quote from: Deathwing on July 06, 2013, 08:22:04 AM

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Quote from: Deathwing on July 06, 2013, 07:04:31 AM

How many confirmations needed for a large amount of bitcoins? A friend sended some bitcoins to me he got 8 confirmations but i cant see the bitcoins on my Blockchain.info wallet why?

Which wallet are you using, they each work a bit differently, so your question can't be accurately answered without this information:

Armory
Bitcoin-Qt
MultiBit
Electrum
https://blockchain.info/wallet

Blockchain.info

Sorry about that. I see that now. I don't know how I missed it.

That's really odd. You may need to contact Piuk (our local blockchain.info expert). Send him a PM.

If it isn't a bug at the blockchain.info website then the only reason I can think of that a blockchain.info wallet wouldn't display a transaction that had received a confirmation would be if your friend somehow accidentally sent to the wrong address.

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Quote from: Deathwing on July 06, 2013, 07:04:31 AM

How many confirmations needed for a large amount of bitcoins? A friend sended some bitcoins to me he got 8 confirmations but i cant see the bitcoins on my Blockchain.info wallet why?

Which wallet are you using, they each work a bit differently, so your question can't be accurately answered without this information:

Armory
Bitcoin-Qt
MultiBit
Electrum
https://blockchain.info/wallet

Blockchain.info

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Quote from: Badabing on July 06, 2013, 07:10:24 AM

Someone send me 30 bitcoins and it show on the blockchain even it does not have any confirmation yet.

No, it doesn't.

The definition of a "confirmation" is to be in a block on "the blockchain". If it is in a block on "the blockchain", then you have a confirmation (although your wallet might not be showing that confirmation if it isn't properly synchronized).

Note, that blockchain.info is not "the blockchain". blockchain.info is just a website someone created that has a lot of useful bitcoin related information. They decided to call their website blockchain.info. It is a very useful website, and many people like and rely on it, but there is nothing "official" about it. If you see a transaction at blockchain.info, it is not necessarily on "the blockchain", since blockchain.info also lists all the transactions that are in the memory pool (and therefore not yet on the blockchain.

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Its way larger than 30.

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Someone send me 30 bitcoins and it show on the blockchain even it does not have any confirmation yet.

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How many confirmations needed for a large amount of bitcoins? A friend sent some bitcoins to me he got 8 confirmations but i cant see the bitcoins on my Blockchain.info wallet why?

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