For a new user it syncs in a minute or so.

Hey MultiBit. Do you plan to make your LTC wallet ?

i need help

i have a wallet for freebee bitcoins i collect on those sites giving out bitcoins, then i send those coins once i get a bunch to my MAIN wallet been doing that for over a month now.
(both wallets are in multibit)

now i have tried 3 different times to send some coin like this and it is only coming up seen by 1 peer but not seen in block chain. (i am sending the 0.001 required tx fee)

i was using 0.4.20 and then after i had trouble the first time i upgraded to 0.4.23 and still happened again, i had reset block chain from a date 1 day before that transaction and the bitcoins just disappear from both wallets......so i then reset form original date and all bitcoins are back so i try to send to main wallet again and it just keeps being seen by 1 peer but not showing up in either block explorer or blockchain......i dont know what to do?


and now i am noticing this error now

Unable to load "https://multibit.org/version.txt". The error was "javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target".

Hi Jim,

I am using MultiBit-0.5.8beta, and generally I am having a great experience using it.
Thank you for developing this awesome client.

I think I already mentioned the following in an earlier post, but want to get some update:

When creating a new wallet (or when starting the first installed version) MultiBit creates one address.
The wallet by default is unencrypted, so the private key for this first address in the wallet will be stored unencrypted in the filesystem.
At this time, malicious software on the computer would be able the seize the private key.
Therefore, I consider this private key and the corresponding public address to be insecure.
Even if later on you encrypt the wallet, the private key for this first address might already be compromised and could some months later be used by an attacker to seize the bitcoins stored at this address.

This behaviour I find especially troublesome due to the following reasons:
I. Change is sent back specifically to this first address. It can happen that large amounts are stored in this address due to this behaviour.
II. Now that MultiBit is the #1 recommended client on bitcoin.org for novice users (congratulations!), many people are using this client and more to come. This makes it a bigger target for attackers.

How do you want to close this tiny (but nonetheless existing) security hole?
Will there be a version without the first address generated by default?

Thanks again for all your efforts.

Hi Jim,


What if BEFORE importing the wallet contained already more than one key?
In this case people would still experience that after importing keys the change is sent to an address outside their original 'somewhere' wallet.

To circumvent this, may I suggest that you send the change always to the LAST key of a wallet instead of the second key.

Of course people could import keys from multiple wallets or create new keys after the import, giving the same unwanted result as with the current solution (change to 1st key).

But there is an additional advantage to it:
Experienced users who want a 'fresh' address for the change of their next transaction can simply create a new address before spending.
For users who want to obfuscate the addresses they control, this could be helpful.
Because if the change is always sent to the same address this allows to easily track down which keys belong to the same wallet after a spend with change has been made.
On the other hand, if the change is sent always to a fresh address an analysis will not be able to link addresses which send change to the same address.

Hi Jim,

you are right.
Since I am using automatic backups I tend to forget that many people do them manually and sometimes forget them.

Kind Regards,
fremoney458

@jim618

Hello mate i have some problem in my wallet there is no transaction from 4 months in my wallet and yesterday a guy send me few BTC on my btc address but still not received on blockchain. 177 confirmation on blockchain but in my wallet still no BTC has been credited kindly please help me out

when i try reset blockchain and transaction option it gives me error -> Blockchain replay was unsuccessful.  Error was "java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException".

Waiting for reply !!

i am new to BTC the method you mention it kinda out of my mind can you please tell me step by step mate ? where to get private keys and how to import into blockchain ?

i have done 'Reset blockchain and transactions'  in my version and all things are sort out i have uninstalled java and update to new all things working great now

Hi jim, long time no see!

I just installed the latest version of multibit on my usb-drive and its looking good

2 quick questions:
- when will wallet-encryption be included?
- Is it possible to add one extra button/screen to the installer so that you can choose the portable option
  e.g. multibit.properties is created for you.

Keep up the good work!

Roland.