I made sure it was the right proporties file by seeing how the fee was fetched corretly. But I found the problem! I set the property "singleConnectionNode" (as stated in configuration.txt) rather than "singleNodeConnection". I think it's best to correct the txt file

singleNodeConnection works like a charm. Thanks!

Hello Everybody,

I got a report today of a serious bug as follows:

Transactions from mining generation block sometimes not appearing in MultiBit wallets

It appears that sometimes the transactions from your pool share of the 50 BTC block reward is not appearing in the wallet in MultiBit, even though the transaction is on the blockchain and you can see it in blockexplorer/ blockchain.info.

I recall someone else mentioning something similar to me in the past but I missed the significance of it - sorry.


Recommendations

• For the moment, do not forward your mining block rewards to a MultiBit receiving address
• If you have a receiving address in MultiBit that you have been sending mining block rewards to, check its balance against the same address in blockexplorer.com or blockchain.info.   If they do not match look at 'Recovering your bitcoin' below.

I am in the process of buying an example wallet from a miner (not being a miner myself) so as to be able to reproduce the bug and fix it.

Recovering your bitcoin
If you unfortunately have a discrepancy on your mining block reward address you can either wait for a fix from me or do the following:
1) Choose the wallet in question in the wallet side panel.
2) Export the private keys WITHOUT A PASSWORD in the 'Export private keys' screen.
3) Open the output key file, select everything and copy it into your paste buffer.
4) Go to http://blockchain.info and either log in to your blockchain.info wallet or create a new one.
5) Go to the 'Import/Export' screen.
6) In the 'Import Wallet' text area, paste in the contents of the key file.
7) Press 'Import Wallet'.

This puts your private keys in your blockchain.info wallet.
(You sometimes have to log out/ shut down/ start up/ login again to get blockchain.info to refresh the wallet to see the transactions).

You should then see your mining block reward transactions.


Apologies for any inconvenience and I will be looking at the problem over the weekend.

Jim

Edit: added to github: https://github.com/jim618/multibit/issues/21

There is a new release of MultiBit at:

http://multibit.org


Version 0.3.2

This is a bugfix release.

Bug fixes:
+  Fix so that mining pool coinbase transactions appear in wallets correctly.
+  Fix in documentation 'configuration.txt' incorrect parameter name specified.
+  Tweaked point size of first-install default font (+1)

Release info
Changes included - Mar 28th 12:00 to Apr 1st 11:00 inclusive
Scan of release checklist


P.S. This release will see any new mining dues you receive but to see any previous ones MultiBit was not showing you need to force it to replay the blocks for the time period in question.  

There are various ways to do this but probably the easiest is:
1) Create a new dummy wallet.
2) Export the private keys NOT PASSWORD PROTECTED for the wallet where you are expecting your mining dues to appear to a key file, say, myWallet.key
3) Open up the myWallet.key in a text editor and change one of the 'createdAt' dates to sometime before your first mining payout.
4) Import the myWallet.key into your dummy wallet.

This will replay the blocks that include your mining dues.   The transactions will appear in both your mining wallet and the dummy wallet.

5) Once the replay is done just delete the dummy wallet (it only has its default key - empty - and duplicate keys in it so is safe to delete).   Delete the unprotected key file just to be on the safe side too.

Bug in Multibit:

When Sending bitcoins, my ballance is going UP!  This shoudn't be happening...
Multibit is not getting rid of the old bitcoins, and is just adding the cange to my ballance:





How can I help debug this problem? I'm running multibit 0.3.1

I find myself looking up MultiBit transactions quite often in blockexplorer/ blockchain.info.
I have added a couple of buttons in the transaction details dialog to do the lookup automatically:



If you click the button it opens your default browser viewing the transaction details at blockexplorer.com or blockchain.info

(This behaviour is operating system dependent - the buttons only appear if Java can open your browser).

the "view in blockchain"etc buttons are great!

I have been tidying up the online help tonight as follows:



There are still a couple of help pages that are "To do" and I will probably add a jargon entry for "What is a private key ?" as well.
You can only write help for so long before your brain melts so I will finish it off tomorrow.   :-)

Edit: Done

Hi Tittiez,

I must admit it had never occurred to me to do a little front end and then call down to Vanitygen to do the grunt work for vanity addresses.

I can see the appeal - it has gone on my list of "MultiBit ideas".

I expect the next couple of months will be tied up with encrypted wallets etc but it is certainly worth thinking about later on.

:-)

Dutch is done. 

I have added in a date picker into the 'Reset blockchain and transactions' screen as below:



The 'Reset from date of first transaction' option is the same as before. (This is the default option when the screen is opened).

With the 'Specify reset date' it:

1) Removes all transactions on or after the date specified for the active wallet.
2) Replays the blocks from midnight at the start of the day specified to pick up all the transactions.

The reset date is initially set to "two weeks ago" which I find normally does the job.