[...] I'm one of the guys who didn't get his blackbytes.
[...] The only thing I changed compared to the previous distributions is the hub.
You have to talk again with transition bot when you change hub.
Are you sure about that? I changed hubs lots of times and didn't have to talk to the transition bot more than once.
How to switch to a light wallet? Is it a different wallet or is it done in the full one?
The best, easiest, and only way that I know of is:
close the client, rename the directory, and restart the client.
- This will create a new wallet and you select light. Then you copy both the byteball and blackbyte wallet addresses.
Then, close client, rename the new wallet directory, then rename the original back to byteball. Start the client.
Then transfer the coins to the new addresses you recorded earlier.
Ok, close client, rename folder to whatever, and rename the new wallet back to byteball. Start the client and see the byteballs have been transferred to your new light wallet.
Don't you need to link the two wallets' chat pages? Have one invite the other to chat, and make a payment request? Otherwise they won't have a shared encryption key for the blackbyte transfer.
I'm here even more concerned in that for sending around $3.50 USD worth of my Bitcoins, plus the $1.50 mining fee, that I got a message back saying that they are seeing that I own Zero bitcoins, which means no free Blackbytes for me and I've just lost $5+ USD. This then offers a web page to look at the reason why it is showing zero bitcoins, of which helps little. I've got 2 bitcoins in my wallet, not zero bitcoins.
You need to have BTC in the address you linked, not just in your wallet. Your wallet has multiple addresses.
Rather than paying the $5 or whatever to link an address just sign a message. It's free.
Seriously "You must have changed addresses in your BTC wallet" makes no sense to me?
Every time you make a payment your wallet sends the change to a new address. That's probably what happened here. Check with any block explorer to see the true balance of the address you linked.
I'd appreciate detailed constructive insight on this to help.
It's pretty simple: make sure the address(es) you've linked to your byteball address (check which these are at
http://transition.byteball.org/) contain all your BTC. That is all.
If you don't want to understand about how change addresses work, you don't have to. But don't go around accusing people of scamming you because of your own lack of understanding.
From this, I'm not understanding how to "send your bitcoins BACK to the address you originally linked"? I really don't understand this, please help. When and how the address that I provided, from what the Jaxx wallet said was the address of my 2 bitcoins and I gave to Byteball, to what the address is as of looking at my Jaxx wallet today, I don't know.
OK. So to start with your BTC were in your Jaxx wallet, at address J1. J1 is an address owned by your Jaxx wallet.
You talked to the transition bot, and it told you to make a small payment to address B1. B1 is an address owned by Tony.
You made a small payment using Jaxx. Jaxx took the coins from address J1, sent a small amount to B1, took another small amount for the transaction fee, and sent the rest to a new address J2. J2 is another address owned by your Jaxx wallet.
You have now linked address J1 to your byteball address. But address J1 is now empty. All of your unspent value is now in address J2.
Address J2 isn't linked to your byteball address, because you didn't even know what it was until now.
So you have two options now:
1) ask Jaxx to send all your coins back to address J1. That will involve paying another transaction fee.
2) link address J2 to your byteball address. There are two ways of linking a BTC address to a byteball address:
2a) send a small payment to the address B2 given by the bot. That's a bad idea, because it will take the coins out of J2, send some to B2, take some more as a transaction fee, and send the rest to a new address J3. You'll end up with J1 and J2 both being linked to your byteball address, but they'll also both be empty, with all your remaining coins being in J3, unlinked. You can probably see that this could go on forever (or until you have spent all your coins).
2b) sign a message with J2; this is free, and leaves your coins in J2.
I would recommend going the 2b) route. Don't pay to link addresses. Sign a message instead. Then you save on transaction fees, save on the payment to Tony, and don't end up confusing yourself with change addresses. Win/win/win.
