Transaction from Summer 2010 - page 3.

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Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 09, 2018, 12:59:19 AM

Would a transaction be still in there address on the block chain until I sync my wallet.

If you don't have the txid, the address or the private key, there's no point in searching for the amount in any transaction.

Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 09, 2018, 12:59:19 AM

I haven't found my wallet yet, I bought coins from someone and would like to know how things worked back then so I can try and find them on the drives. I have reasons why I couldn't get to the drives I have.

If you can't get to your wallet, none of the other things matter.

Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 09, 2018, 01:52:15 AM

Does anyone know how I can search the block chain for a range of dates and amounts. I would like to find the transaction to see if it went through.

Download this list for all balances per address. Search for the amount you want, then search the addresses on a blockexplorer to find the date.
If it's a common balance, you can expect many hits. If it's something weird (like 1.13141533BTC), you'll get less false positives.

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Quote from: nc50lc on May 09, 2018, 02:08:51 AM

Timestamp/Received Time

I think the reason I couldn't find it before was that I was searching dates in my time, it's probably all UTC. I'll try that thanks.

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Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 09, 2018, 01:52:15 AM

Does anyone know how I can search the block chain for a range of dates and amounts. I would like to find the transaction to see if it went through.

Use any online blockexplorer like blockchain.info, enter the block number of the block you want to investigate (you can enter that transaction too).
All the transactions are included there (including the coinbase tx) along with the useful information:

Number Of Transactions
Timestamp/Received Time

If it was from 2010 (which you mentioned from your other threads), blocks at that time only consists of <10 transactions,
finding a particular tx wont be that hard.
You might wanna check #50001 and above for transactions from 2010-04-10.

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Does anyone know how I can search the block chain for a range of dates and amounts. I would like to find the transaction to see if it went through.

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After that "someone" sent you the transaction ID and you can confirm that it has confirmations with blockexplorers (blockchain.info) it's in that wallet, assuming that the address belongs to it.
You can take all the time in the world before syncing/opening that wallet again.

Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

someone sent coins to the wallet address

If this actually happened back then, there's nothing else required to complete "that" transaction.
If the bitcoins isn't there after synchronization, either the transaction was dropped or it isn't the correct wallet.dat from 2010.

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Quote from: LoyceV on May 09, 2018, 12:41:42 AM

Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

Can anyone explain

This is your seventh topic on this subject. I'm starting to think you're just trolling.
Why don't you put all information in your first topic?

No, not trolling LoyceV. I haven't found my wallet yet, I bought coins from someone and would like to know how things worked back then so I can try and find them on the drives. I have reasons why I couldn't get to the drives I have. But I read different things on here about how it worked back then. I didn't post everything together because they are different things that I'm trying to find out about. Would a transaction be still in there address on the block chain until I sync my wallet.

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Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

Can anyone explain

This is your seventh topic on this subject. I'm starting to think you're just trolling.
Why don't you put all information in your first topic?

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Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

Can anyone explain what would happen if I created a wallet in 2010 and someone sent coins to the wallet address, gave me a tx number that I stuck in and hit receive, shut the wallet down and left Bitcoin demon running ( It probably didn't sync with the network) and went to work. When I got home the power had been off and the computer was off, I never had it back online since then. I looked on the block chain at old addresses and don't see that amount around the time it happened.

If someone sent bitcoins to one of your addresses and the transaction was mined onto the blockchain, the bitcoins are at your disposal if you still have the private key (or the mnemonic phrase). Whether your node happened to be online and synced doesn't matter. But if a reliable blockchain explorer shows an empty balance for the address, then the balance for that address is empty.

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Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

someone sent coins to the wallet address, gave me a tx number that I stuck in and hit receive

Could you explain what do you mean with this? You don't seperately hit any "receive" or "accept" type of buttons if the transaction has already been sent/broadcasted to the network. An exception is that at least with the current client, you are able to create a custom request for a certain amount for example if receiving payments from different clients.

Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

left Bitcoin demon running ( It probably didn't sync with the network) and went to work.

Even if you have not synced the whole blockchain, the transaction should have been broadcasted within matter of seconds to the network. At that time mempool was pretty empty i guess, so it should have not been dropped from there either. However im not certain if the early clients did that as well, or if you had to sync the whole blockchain before sending. At least the current versions send them to nodes anyway.

Quote from: Oldnewbie on May 08, 2018, 10:21:48 PM

When I got home the power had been off and the computer was off, I never had it back online since then. I looked on the block chain at old addresses and don't see that amount around the time it happened.

Are you sure that he actually sent everything to you? Probably not if you cannot see it in your wallet nor any block explorer.

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Can anyone explain what would happen if I created a wallet in 2010 and someone sent coins to the wallet address, gave me a tx number that I stuck in and hit receive, shut the wallet down and left Bitcoin demon running ( It probably didn't sync with the network) and went to work. When I got home the power had been off and the computer was off, I never had it back online since then. I looked on the block chain at old addresses and don't see that amount around the time it happened.

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