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GarrusV

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Quote from: ZephramC on May 17, 2013, 07:20:20 AM

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Quote from: yacoin on May 16, 2013, 08:26:00 PM

Quote from: GarrusV on May 16, 2013, 11:53:47 AM

If I transfer BTC from an exchange to my wallet which is on an offline computer, what happens? I will bring it back up in a week but what happens to the BTC, do they not send or stay still? Thanks.

They still transfer. All you need is a wallet.dat

Don't lose it. You'll lose your wallet if your "wallet.dat" gets deleted.

Is it a solution to copy wallet.dat than save it somewhere in the cloud? (like GDrive, or DropBox?) Thx!

Yes it is. But the wallet.dat should be encrypted! Anyone who has access to unencrypted wallet.dat (or is able to decrypt it) have access to your bitcoins in that wallet.
You can encrypt it in the bitcoin program or you can encrypt it independently (or both). Do not loose/forget the password!

What you can do is use TrueCrypt coupled with DropBox and encrypt it on bitcoin-qt.

OnlyC

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Can anyone answer my question: how long it take to transfer BTC from btc-e to mtgox? thanks

ZephramC

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Quote from: grabber on May 17, 2013, 06:13:12 AM

Quote from: yacoin on May 16, 2013, 08:26:00 PM

Quote from: GarrusV on May 16, 2013, 11:53:47 AM

If I transfer BTC from an exchange to my wallet which is on an offline computer, what happens? I will bring it back up in a week but what happens to the BTC, do they not send or stay still? Thanks.

They still transfer. All you need is a wallet.dat

Don't lose it. You'll lose your wallet if your "wallet.dat" gets deleted.

Is it a solution to copy wallet.dat than save it somewhere in the cloud? (like GDrive, or DropBox?) Thx!

Yes it is. But the wallet.dat should be encrypted! Anyone who has access to unencrypted wallet.dat (or is able to decrypt it) have access to your bitcoins in that wallet.
You can encrypt it in the bitcoin program or you can encrypt it independently (or both). Do not loose/forget the password!

philr13

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Hi Looking to get 129 Btc from Cash anybody in UK got any to sell?

grabber

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Quote from: yacoin on May 16, 2013, 08:26:00 PM

Quote from: GarrusV on May 16, 2013, 11:53:47 AM

If I transfer BTC from an exchange to my wallet which is on an offline computer, what happens? I will bring it back up in a week but what happens to the BTC, do they not send or stay still? Thanks.

They still transfer. All you need is a wallet.dat

Don't lose it. You'll lose your wallet if your "wallet.dat" gets deleted.

Is it a solution to copy wallet.dat than save it somewhere in the cloud? (like GDrive, or DropBox?) Thx!

GarrusV

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Thanks all.

yacoin

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Quote from: GarrusV on May 16, 2013, 11:53:47 AM

If I transfer BTC from an exchange to my wallet which is on an offline computer, what happens? I will bring it back up in a week but what happens to the BTC, do they not send or stay still? Thanks.

They still transfer. All you need is a wallet.dat

Don't lose it. You'll lose your wallet if your "wallet.dat" gets deleted.

optimator

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Bitcoin is a public ledger system. The bitcoins don't really exist in your wallet but in the public ledger.

Every node (bitcoin-qt) has a copy of that complete ledger. So when you send your bitcoins from an exchange to your wallet all the nodes record that transaction.

When you bring your offline computer back online it will resync with the other nodes in the network and it will (once it gets the transaction) show you the correct balance.

GarrusV

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I haven't sent them yet as I don't have access to that computer

reich

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Have you got them yet?

aymar_est

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What i know about that is that when you get online again it will appear on your wallet. Correct me if i'm wrong.

reich

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Quote from: GarrusV on May 16, 2013, 11:53:47 AM

If I transfer BTC from an exchange to my wallet which is on an offline computer, what happens? I will bring it back up in a week but what happens to the BTC, do they not send or stay still? Thanks.

. What will happen? Bitcoins will be teansferred..

GarrusV

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If I transfer BTC from an exchange to my wallet which is on an offline computer, what happens? I will bring it back up in a week but what happens to the BTC, do they not send or stay still? Thanks.

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