how much time to sync without the blockchain? I cant realize where to put the chain in order for the wallet to use it. srsly.
long time.
are you on windows 7 or 8? If so, it goes here: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Bitmonero\blockchain.bin
thank you very much, it synched alright, but now when I open my wallet.bin it says it couldnt connect to daemon host:8080 w/e ....
Can you provide more details of what you are doing, what platform, commands etc. You error message refers to a different port from when I try to start wallet without daemon running:
F:\>simplewallet.exe --wallet-file wallet.bin
bitmonero wallet v0.8.6.295(0.1-g7620d55)
password: ********************
Opened wallet: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Error: wallet failed to connect to daemon (
http://localhost:18081). Daemon either is not started or passed wrong port. P
lease, make sure that daemon is running or restart the wallet with correct daemon address.
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Use "help" command to see the list of available commands.
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[wallet xxxxxxx]:
I am running simplewallet.exe, input wallet.bin(the name), then password, and then it shows error:failed to connect to daemon(localhost:18081) etc. I have windows 7 64bit, and I have created the original bat in the OP and synched correctly with blockchain(or at least it seems so)
I'm not sure about the .bat recommended in the OP but you don't need it, you can just run the two separate commands manually in two command windows.
The wallet is only important to get an address to send coins to, once you have the address you don't need to have the wallet running when mining, only to check your balance occasionally. The mining can be done with simpleminer.exe, or with bitminerod.exe. I use bitminerod.exe. Here is what my startup command looks like
bitmonerod --start-mining $$$$$$$$$$ --log-level 0 --mining-threads 7
The key is shown as $$$$$$$$$$ and is much longer, but I shortened it to show the command on one line.
Even if your wallet does not connect, I think you can still get the address. The easiest way is to get it from address.txt which it should create on first startup in the same directory as your wallet.bin. If not then just run bitmonerod and leave it running on one command window, then start the wallet in another command window.
Once mining starts it should report on the sync and produce some output like this:
Use "help" command to see the list of available commands.
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2014-May-18 09:07:32.762925 [P2P8]Mining has started with 7 threads, good luck!
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