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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: Minimalist331 on April 15, 2012, 09:24 pm
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Hi , new here, first time transaction.
Ive spent some time researching and reading forums and decided to buy some bitcoins and transfer over.
I transfered into instawallet address then split between two and the transfered to silk road. Its been over an hour and no funds in my account as of yet. I have all the instawallet addresses stored but am not sure how to trace where the transfer has failed.
Or should i just give it more time?
Thanks
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It requires 8 (or was it 6? not sure) confirmations from the bitcoin system to validate a transfer.
Check the blocks here: http://blockchain.info/
I think your transaction has 2/8 confirmations, just wait for the 8th one.
-Cheers
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Mmm i went to the address, not quite sure what i should be looking for. i put in my silk road address and got this
No. Transactions 1
Unspent Inputs 1
Total Received 20 BTC
Final Balance 20 BTC
But nothing in account here?
Im probably just being impatient! Il sleep on it and see if anything there tomorrow!
Thanks for quick reply!
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I'm in the same boat as you. I think something might be wrong with Instawallet. My transfer transaction didn't show in a block until 1 and a half day later. Anyways it finally showed up in a block and now I'm at 75 confirmations on my transaction and still nothing in my SR account.
Sent a message to the admins with the SR wallet that has my bitcoins sitting in it and am just waiting to hear back from them.
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Been getting a ton of Gateway 500 error when visiting instawallet. Might have to stop using them until they fix it.
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I'm in the same boat, transferred some BTC to instawallet, and then once it was confirmed transferred to SR, this was about 2 hours ago. I hope I don't lose my BTC. :/
edit: just checked and saw that my BTC has been added to my account, I'm sure you will soon get yours as well :D
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Just wanted to touch base. 4 days after starting the transfer from Instawallet to SR, I have my bitcoins. It was however due to the help of Dread Pirate Roberts (SR Admin). He said he was not sure what happened either, but he credited my account.
Just look at your SR wallet at http://blockchain.info. If you see the transfer to the wallet and the confirmations, but nothing is hitting your SR account, use the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the SR page and copy/paste your SR wallet address and ask if they can look into a lost bitcoin transfer.
I was worried as balls, but DPRs got our back.
Not planning on using Instawallet again. With all these Gateway 500 errors and transfers that take forever, I'll use a desktop bitcoin client and set a decent fee so the transfer goes through quickly.
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Just sent 50 BTC to SR, took < 20 mins, no fee.