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Thanks for the quick response keep up the fantastic work.

As your online I'll pop in another feature request. would really love to see copy/paste functionality added to the sign message tab (manually typing out addresses and sigs is an accident waiting to happen) I'm too careless :-(

@Jochen,
Gary has written up a how-to on upgrading, which is here:
https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_upgrading.html



@lunarboy
Yes - that would be nice !
At the moment it is bitcoind which is the 'gatekeeper' for the transaction fees (it will become more flexible in the future).
The MultiBit fees are as low as you can go currently so I cannot reduce it safely at the moment.

I think the recent run up of the price of bitcoin has surprised everyone but I am sure it will get sorted.

Can we reduce that 0.0001 transaction fee again please     

I only got the problem if i delete the previous map of Multibit(c:/Program files/Multibit 0.5.14/).With the update i got Multibit 0.5.14 and 0.5.15 in program files, but i don't think u need to keep every map of the previous version in order to run it. Else i need to backup 0.5.14,0.5.15,0.5.16,... if u understand..

Grtz

I just updated too. I have no problem at all.

Hey jim618,

I saw the new release of Multibit, but when i update i lose all my data? I use my backup of /Appdata/Roaming/Multibit but if i open my wallet in that map he doesnt do anything. On the previous version i can open without problems.
I only backup my /Appdata/Roaming/Multibit map and not /Program Files/Multibit whats right? Can u give a step by step guide for using my backup on the new Multibit version?

Thanks

I use multibit too and I have money on it. But I cannot spend it, it's not spendable, however if I click I see its approved by 600 peers. But in multibit it says 3 peers and pending. It is in this condition for a week now!!!

Issue resolved.

Apparently, something went wrong with a Java update in the meantime.
Removed and reinstalled Java properly and after that, could also install and use MultiBit without any problems as well.

And the space was eaten up by .jar files created in the Temp folder. (That gave the hint that helped resolve the issue.)

So, everything alright now, no more problems.

Sorry for disrupting any ongoing conversations.

Ah, and an interesting detail: on each occasion, when I try to start the installer, about 8-10 MB free space disappears from my system drive and I can't find where, how or why...? MultiBit's own directory does not seem to become any larger.

After about two hours of fruitless efforts, I've just about given up. Please help, as I have no idea how to proceed any further.

I'm using Windows 7 64 bit.
Just a few hours ago everything worked fine with an earlier version of MultiBit I was using (4.23 I think).
I've imported some keys I was using on another PC.
No problems here either, imported just fine, synchronized, saw all the transactions and the right amounts.
Closed MultiBit.

One or two hours later tried starting it again.
Absolutely nothing at all happened.
Tried starting again, still nothing.
Tried an even earlier version that I also had (4.15 I think). Again, nothing.
Tried restarting PC, no success.
Tried downloading and installing the most recent MultiBit (5.14)...

Downloaded it OK. But when trying to run it, I first get the usual Windows prompt asking if I really want to run it, yes, of course, and then again, nothing at all happens. Tried a few more times - sometimes I also get a window saying that the program may not be installed correctly (Note: I'm still trying to launch the INSTALLER file itself when I get this message...) and that I can either reinstall it with "the recommended settings" or I can say that it is installed correctly. No matter what I choose, again, nothing happens.

Tried uninstalling the earlier versions first, both with the Uninstall provided with the MultiBit installation and from Control Panel as well, but again, nothing at all happened when I tried to start the uninstall.

So I tried it the hard way: deleted the program files I could find manually, then searched the registry for any entries containing "multibit" and deleted these as well.

Then restarted the PC and tried again.

And still I only get the above results. (And in case I'd have left this detail out, I can not launch any earlier version installers either - nothing happens with those either.)

So... I'm at the end of my wits and would much appreciate any help anyone could provide. Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,

Gábriel

that worked, thanks... could have sworn I tried that last night... meh, all good now though, thanks again.

I've had similar issue - reseting blockchain helped in my case (Tools/Reset Blockchain).

Ran into my first odd issue since using MultiBit for awhile now...

I have a small incoming transaction, MultiBit has seen said transaction for the past 3 days it's been pending, in MultiBit, Status is 'Seen by 4 peers, Pending/unconfirmed', while at Blockchain 464 confirmations...

http://blockchain.info/tx-index/a314b9d728f17b3c11f2a8c543d68b076cde139711b0857861f18060efc8539d

When I started to play around with Multibit it was with "small amount" of BTC. But now when the price has skyrocketed it's quite significant amount. That makes security increasingly important.

Appreciate it, that was the problem was encrypting it before

Export your private keys unencrypted.
Then open the exported file in a text editor
The private keys are in the WIF format, one per row (followed by a date but you probably don't need that)

edit: secure delete the file once you have done with it.

Hey jim wondering how I can extract a private key from a .key file? I am looking to inputting it into my mastercoin wallet, but unsure of how to do it.

Hi Ajax3592,

Legal disclaimer: The MultiBit licence is MIT license so there is no warranty expressed or implied with MultiBit.


IMO the code is fairly stable now. Keeping your bitcoins safe is all about:

+ making sure your wallets are backed up (both on your computer and on separate media like USB drives).
+ keeping malware off your computer (especially the combination of trojans + key loggers which all online bitcoin clients are susceptible to).
+ not forgetting your password. This is probably causing more loss of bitcoin than any other cause.


A useful way of looking at your question is to see what goes wrong and what the causes are.
If you have a peruse of the MultiBit issues database you can see what sort of problems people have. Most of them now are things like people not being able to find their wallets and things like that.

There are still unfortunately a small number people losing bitcoin using MultiBit. This is always due to losing private keys (there is really no other way to lose bitcoin unless they are stolen from you). Computers have been stolen, drives have been formatted, Windows reinstalled with no backups made. People lose bitcoin from trying to do paper wallets and not understanding change addresses. Sometimes people delete all of the backups (DO NOT DO THIS) to be 'ultra-secure' and then lose their single remaining copy of their wallet somehow.


For storing large amounts of bitcoin personally I think you need to have a completely offline wallet (or a hardware wallet like Trezor when they become available) as general purpose personal computers are just not a secure enough environment for large amounts of money.

I know I haven't really answered your question but it does not have a simple answer.
That being said I keep a non-trivial amount of money in MultiBit so I'm eating my own dog food.

OP, 2 years after the launch, can you commit it is a safe wallet now to store moderate amount of BTC Considering you've locked the wallet and have Malwarebytes running all the time ?

OK, thank you for the answer. Multibit is a great app - thank you for your work.