Woke Up To This A Few Days Ago :)
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A 'pending' transaction from over 2 years ago...
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It'd be a pretty poor crypto-currency if you could just rig it with some data file fiddling. 
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perfectly normal, my dgb wallet hadn't been used in about 2 years and said the same. You have to wait a while for the wallet to sync before it turns into confirmed.
I have to say, I'd be sweating if I was the OP. The fact it is showing up in his wallet is very promising indeed.
BTC doesn't show up in your wallet unless it has been assigned to your unique address. The sync is going across the network to ensure it hasn't been spent.
I've no idea why it's showing up, but the fact is that it is, so hopefully we're looking at a multi millionaire. Funds can't be recalled, it's crypto currency which is the digital equivalent of cash.
It's also very easy to spend, but....also very easy to be scammed and lose it.
I spent all mine straight away
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I don't understand bitcoins, but I do understand what £14 million is! Good luck, OP. Don't forget all us poor people while you're sunning yourself on your fancy new yacht!
As a side note, how on Earth did you ignore this for so long?! I'd be checking my balance every day if there was any chance I had a reasonable sum of money.
As a side note, how on Earth did you ignore this for so long?! I'd be checking my balance every day if there was any chance I had a reasonable sum of money.
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I tried with an old wallet I had backed up onto a thumb drive and forgotten about, I saw a few hundred quid worth of dogecoin but once it had caught up the sync my wallet was empty 
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So what's happened next?
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I tried with an old wallet I had backed up onto a thumb drive and forgotten about, I saw a few hundred quid worth of dogecoin but once it had caught up the sync my wallet was empty
Probably this.
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Let's pretend he has got 14 million how can he spend it?
Could he go to an estate agent and buy a house, could he go to the Ferrari dealership or has he got to but small-ish items like the poster above who bought a gaming PC?
Can anybody link to a boys toys site that will take your bitcoins?
Could he go to an estate agent and buy a house, could he go to the Ferrari dealership or has he got to but small-ish items like the poster above who bought a gaming PC?
Can anybody link to a boys toys site that will take your bitcoins?
It can be exchanged for fiat currency via a multitude of sites. Obviously not in all go cos that will crash the price.
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OK, another question.
Is this like you waking up and finding your bank has accidentally put 14 million in your account?
Won't somebody find out later that this currency went to the OP?
Is this like you waking up and finding your bank has accidentally put 14 million in your account?
Won't somebody find out later that this currency went to the OP?
Pretty sure there's nothing they could do about it. Iirc you can't get money back unless the owner is kind enough.
If you do get it all and dump it in one go let me know beforehand and I'll get ready to buy
.It does exist. In the same way that if you wrote "IOU 1 sandwich" on a bit of paper, it would exist. There wouldn't be a sandwich instantly appearing out of thin-air, but the IOU, the agreement, would be a real thing.
If you accept that, then all you really need to make BitCoin make sense, is to accept that instead of specifying a sandwich, the IOU can have a number and that number translates to many different things, not just sandwiches. So maybe 0.1 Bitcoins could buy ten sandwiches, or two bottles of wine or a hundred penny sweets. It depends how valuable the items are. But the IOUs are all still real, even though they're written on computers rather than bits of paper.
The rest after that is implementation details, so I guess the question is does the above make sense to you or not? Forget about everything else, does the principle of the IOUs make sense? If so, we can go on to talk about how it's actually achieved, but if not, that's the part we need to get across because anything else will just confuse you further until you get the basic idea.
convert it into real money, there is around 100million usd of bitcoin traded each day at the moment... while he can't just go to market on all exchanges as there won't be bids totaling 14 million he could quite easily dispose of it over the course of a day or maybe a week
it isn't like he *has* to get the transaction done by the end of day... if he spooked the market buy dumping too much of it in one go he could easily start submitting bids to buy some back much further down - he's got the size to push the price around all day and there aren't any regulators to step in and stop him
I'd be more worried about whose account they were supposed to appear in. Reminds me of The Sting where Robert Redford and his mate accidentally rip off a mob courier on his way to a drop. They expected to get forty dollars or something, ended up with several thousand. Didn't end well for either of them.
Though there was lots of piano music.