Missing bitcoins or wallet?
I've been mining hard a few months back with my GPU and obtained a few cents, not many but enough before i received my ASIC from BFL last week.
I had my wallet on my old hard drive, made a back up of the wallet (i think i encrypted it), and kept it (a copy) in a usb drive.
THen made even a third copy in another hard drive... And now
i run again my bitcoin wallet and my bitocins are not there :(((
even when i check my receiving address it even doesn't match the addressi used to received my bitcoins (made in the eclipe pool, the transactions are stored there with my -missing- bitcoin address)
So now i dont know how to get back my bitcoins, i dont know what happened here, has anybody stolen my bitcoins? Why isn't my old address showing up when opening my wallet since i didn't delete it? Are my bitcoins encrypted anywhere or what?
I dont know what to do :((
I had my wallet on my old hard drive, made a back up of the wallet (i think i encrypted it), and kept it (a copy) in a usb drive.
THen made even a third copy in another hard drive... And now
i run again my bitcoin wallet and my bitocins are not there :(((
even when i check my receiving address it even doesn't match the addressi used to received my bitcoins (made in the eclipe pool, the transactions are stored there with my -missing- bitcoin address)
So now i dont know how to get back my bitcoins, i dont know what happened here, has anybody stolen my bitcoins? Why isn't my old address showing up when opening my wallet since i didn't delete it? Are my bitcoins encrypted anywhere or what?
I dont know what to do :((
This is not the proper place to receive a proper answer, but I'll give it a try.
I'm guessing the answer is "or what".
I hope this helps.
<signed>
Sammy Smoot
Nowwhat, Tenn
I'm guessing the answer is "or what".
I hope this helps.
<signed>
Sammy Smoot
Nowwhat, Tenn
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Ok i tried to find a wallet.dat file, but i only found one.
I have several bitcoinwallets around my hard drives, and when i open ANY of them im always "redirected" to same one, and showing the same wallet address.
This is quite strnage, it look like all these files are invoking the bitcoin program installed on my os, should i uninstall it?
I have several bitcoinwallets around my hard drives, and when i open ANY of them im always "redirected" to same one, and showing the same wallet address.
This is quite strnage, it look like all these files are invoking the bitcoin program installed on my os, should i uninstall it?
celtician this is not the correct place to ask your question... in fact, I don't know where on Experts Exchange would be the correct place.
Certainly I suspect that the procedure that you used to "make a backup of your wallet" might be the culprit, and I hope you still have the old hard drive, but I'm not a bitcoin user, so perhaps you should try asking in the bitcoin community at http://bitcoin.org/en/community
Certainly I suspect that the procedure that you used to "make a backup of your wallet" might be the culprit, and I hope you still have the old hard drive, but I'm not a bitcoin user, so perhaps you should try asking in the bitcoin community at http://bitcoin.org/en/community
There isn't really a particularly suitable topic area for bitcoin on EE, so I'll continue to help you with this here if you like. It's true though that bitcointalk.org is a very active site for getting Bitcoin related help if you need it. I would avoid sending anyone you don't know your wallet though; there are lots of scammers out there in the bitcoin world.
I've done a couple of years of amateur mining with a graphics card, though I haven't upgraded to ASIC hardware so I stopped mining a few months ago when the difficulty rose too high.
Let me know how you go anyway.
I've done a couple of years of amateur mining with a graphics card, though I haven't upgraded to ASIC hardware so I stopped mining a few months ago when the difficulty rose too high.
Let me know how you go anyway.
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maybe it should be in
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Other/Miscellaneous/
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There should be a Bitcoin section within EE : )
Im trying your options now and will let you know what has happened.
It would be nice if EE accepted bitcoin as a payment too. Would only make sense.
Im trying your options now and will let you know what has happened.
It would be nice if EE accepted bitcoin as a payment too. Would only make sense.
I've moved the question to the Misc Software topic area :-)
Nicely done, TerryAtOpus.
The first thing to do is see if you've got a copy of the original wallet.dat file.
Don't delete or overwrite any wallet.dat files (old or new) just in case you're confused about which is which. Clearly label them with something meaningful, such as wallet.dat.fromUSBstick201
Did you restore an old wallet.dat file to use with a new installation of the client? If so, did it accept your original wallet password (in which case you did it correctly) when unlocking the wallet, or did the client get you to enter a new password for locking the wallet for the first time (in which case it created a new wallet)?