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Topic: Lost all my Bitcoins? - page 3. (Read 17743 times)

legendary
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October 06, 2015, 02:11:06 AM
#15
The most retarded aspect of bitcoin, regardless of how safe it is. I am always using just one address and sending everything even with altcoins there. The new multiaddress GUI is so fucking confusing.
hero member
Activity: 874
Merit: 1000
October 06, 2015, 02:06:57 AM
#14
A tiny bit now, but in a couple years?  Here's a snippet from my IRC bot.
According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html the world population is 6,855,970,029. If everyone had the same amount of bitcoins, everyone would have 0.00306302 bitcoins.  If 0.00000001 bitcoins were equivalent to US$0.01, then everyone would have equivalent of US$3,063.02389176 and the value of all bitcoins would be equivalent of US$21,000,000,000,000.00.

When Bitcoin gets cracked it will mostly likely to be worth exactly $ 0.00
you obviously don't understand what 'cracked' is.  Not going to happen.
legendary
Activity: 966
Merit: 1000
In holiday we trust
October 06, 2015, 12:44:03 AM
#13
A tiny bit now, but in a couple years?  Here's a snippet from my IRC bot.
According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html the world population is 6,855,970,029. If everyone had the same amount of bitcoins, everyone would have 0.00306302 bitcoins.  If 0.00000001 bitcoins were equivalent to US$0.01, then everyone would have equivalent of US$3,063.02389176 and the value of all bitcoins would be equivalent of US$21,000,000,000,000.00.

When Bitcoin gets cracked it will mostly likely to be worth exactly $ 0.00
sr. member
Activity: 686
Merit: 250
October 06, 2015, 12:30:17 AM
#12
you have your wallet destroying data. You really lost all his bitcoin  Shocked
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 336
October 05, 2015, 10:34:05 PM
#11
A tiny bit now, but in a couple years?  Here's a snippet from my IRC bot.
According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html the world population is 6,855,970,029. If everyone had the same amount of bitcoins, everyone would have 0.00306302 bitcoins.  If 0.00000001 bitcoins were equivalent to US$0.01, then everyone would have equivalent of US$3,063.02389176 and the value of all bitcoins would be equivalent of US$21,000,000,000,000.00.

Of course, the percentage of the world population who would actually want bitcoins will probably stay at 0.001 or less.

The percentage of people who own USD is close to 5%, so consider that Wink
full member
Activity: 150
Merit: 100
October 05, 2015, 10:27:04 PM
#10
A tiny bit now, but in a couple years?  Here's a snippet from my IRC bot.
According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html the world population is 6,855,970,029. If everyone had the same amount of bitcoins, everyone would have 0.00306302 bitcoins.  If 0.00000001 bitcoins were equivalent to US$0.01, then everyone would have equivalent of US$3,063.02389176 and the value of all bitcoins would be equivalent of US$21,000,000,000,000.00.

Of course, the percentage of the world population who would actually want bitcoins will probably stay at 0.001 or less.
vip
Activity: 1428
Merit: 1145
October 05, 2015, 10:20:49 PM
#9
A tiny bit now, but in a couple years?  Here's a snippet from my IRC bot.
According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html the world population is 6,855,970,029. If everyone had the same amount of bitcoins, everyone would have 0.00306302 bitcoins.  If 0.00000001 bitcoins were equivalent to US$0.01, then everyone would have equivalent of US$3,063.02389176 and the value of all bitcoins would be equivalent of US$21,000,000,000,000.00.

Here's the new link: http://www.census.gov/popclock/

In over five years, the population now exceeds 7B and bitcoins are worth way more than fractions of a cents, in fact, there's virtually a parity with the two abstracts when considering its market cap.
hero member
Activity: 574
Merit: 513
July 14, 2010, 10:45:26 PM
#8
A tiny bit now, but in a couple years?  Here's a snippet from my IRC bot.
According to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html the world population is 6,855,970,029. If everyone had the same amount of bitcoins, everyone would have 0.00306302 bitcoins.  If 0.00000001 bitcoins were equivalent to US$0.01, then everyone would have equivalent of US$3,063.02389176 and the value of all bitcoins would be equivalent of US$21,000,000,000,000.00.
newbie
Activity: 48
Merit: 0
July 14, 2010, 07:01:40 PM
#7
Yeah, I just overwrote it. I'm not gonna bother trying to recover the file. It was only 1.20 BTC and I'm not gonna sweat the small stuff.

The wallet.dat now has transactions that don't reflect the current balance, so I'm just going to delete it.

Luckily, I only had 1.20 BTC to lose, but backing up the wallet should be definitely integrated into the client.

While they're doing that, they should build in a way to "bank" your coins into encrypted files.



Well, I guess the BTCs value just got a tiny bit higher.  Tongue  Grin
legendary
Activity: 1304
Merit: 1015
July 14, 2010, 06:49:49 PM
#6
I wanted to test Bitcoin's double-spending protection, so I copied the wallet.dat file to another folder. I had 1.21 BTC as my balance, and I donated 0.01 BTC, and then exited the program. I then moved the copy of the wallet.dat file back to Bitcoin's AppData folder, and started Bitcoin.

When you copied the copy of wallet.dat back to the Bitcoin AppData folder, did you overwrite the existing wallet.dat?

This is certainly REALLY SCARY since that's how people do backups.  What is the procedure to do backup and restoring backups???
legendary
Activity: 860
Merit: 1026
July 14, 2010, 06:05:54 PM
#5
If you want to do that you should do it as soon as possible because every new write-access could overwrite the sector where that file is still stored.
newbie
Activity: 48
Merit: 0
July 14, 2010, 06:04:52 PM
#4
Ah, okay. So I guess that my 1.20 BTC is lost forever, unless I try to recover the file with a data recovery tool.
administrator
Activity: 5222
Merit: 13032
July 14, 2010, 05:46:51 PM
#3
The 1.21 BC was in a single "chunk". When you sent 0.01, you made a transaction with one "in" (the "chunk") and two "outs": one sent 0.01 to whoever you sent that to, and the other one sent 1.20 back to you as "change". This second "out" was sent to a brand new address that you just generated. Since your old wallet.dat doesn't have the keys to this new address, you don't see it.
legendary
Activity: 860
Merit: 1026
July 14, 2010, 05:42:59 PM
#2
hmm that indeed seems odd.
if you still got the other version of your wallet.dat try to use that.
newbie
Activity: 48
Merit: 0
July 14, 2010, 05:35:17 PM
#1
I wanted to test Bitcoin's double-spending protection, so I copied the wallet.dat file to another folder. I had 1.21 BTC as my balance, and I donated 0.01 BTC, and then exited the program. I then moved the copy of the wallet.dat file back to Bitcoin's AppData folder, and started Bitcoin.

When it started, it showed 1.21 BTC as my balance, but a second later, it became 0.00.

Is this there on purpose to punish people who attempt double-spending, or is it a bug?

(All my transactions are present in the window. My balance is at 0.00 though.)
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