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just lost my pitiful 0.81BTC because I only copied my bitcoin folder over to my external before a reinstall. your wallet is stored in the AppData folder under your user name. you've been warned, don't be a dumbass like me! 😱
 
All of a sudden the "volatile" market has stabilized around $21 USD. Last week it was jumping all over just about every single day. Price fixing? <shrug>
 
repoman0 said:
just lost my pitiful 0.81BTC because I only copied my bitcoin folder over to my external before a reinstall. your wallet is stored in the AppData folder under your user name. you've been warned, don't be a dumbass like me! 😱
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Well good thing it was "only" .81 BTC. ~$20 loss is tolerable IMO.
 
repoman0 said:
just lost my pitiful 0.81BTC because I only copied my bitcoin folder over to my external before a reinstall. your wallet is stored in the AppData folder under your user name. you've been warned, don't be a dumbass like me! 😱
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Hmm, interesting, there is no way to recover that wallet?

I find it hard to believe that the account and all associated coins can be destroyed in a format.
 
PC Surgeon said:
All of a sudden the "volatile" market has stabilized around $21 USD. Last week it was jumping all over just about every single day. Price fixing? <shrug>
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I think it was probably just speculative bounces after that horrible day where someone moved ~16000 coins on the market rather than in a dark pool.
 
Hmm I have two machines equipped with good Radeons (5870, 6950) that I could use... why am I sitting idly on my hands! 😱

Some other things I read mentioned Linux, but I saw a screenshot on page 1 that looked like it was from Windows 7. So I can just run this in Windows?
 
Acanthus said:
Hmm, interesting, there is no way to recover that wallet?

I find it hard to believe that the account and all associated coins can be destroyed in a format.
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I don't believe so. There isn't any way to use that address anymore to receive payments (they are generated randomly) and my bitcoin software has no record of the 0.81btc I received with it - so no sending them to MtGox.

If it can be done I'm all ears - it's only $16 as said above but still sucks after watching them slowly accumulate 😱
 
Aikouka said:
Hmm I have two machines equipped with good Radeons (5870, 6950) that I could use... why am I sitting idly on my hands! 😱

Some other things I read mentioned Linux, but I saw a screenshot on page 1 that looked like it was from Windows 7. So I can just run this in Windows?
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Sure, either one works. Linux advantage- no OS licenses costs, can run headless without needing dummy plugs. But if you know windows and want to stick with what you know it works fine too.
 
Chiropteran said:
Sure, either one works. Linux advantage- no OS licenses costs, can run headless without needing dummy plugs. But if you know windows and want to stick with what you know it works fine too.
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Ah, so the benefits of Linux are really if you're building machines specifically for this task. I'm more or less just thinking about using machines that are already built ( i7-860 + 5870 & i5-2500k + 6950 ) that already have Windows installed. I thought I'd have to install Linux on my old i7 machine to do this... so this is much nicer now! 🙂
 
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