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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Missing Bitcoin???
by
shorena
on 31/05/2015, 07:11:20 UTC
I have no idea what is going on here.

My regular wallet is on my laptop.

Exported private keys when I went on vacation.

Imported private keys while on vacation onto my tablet.

Deposited some BTC to Cryptsy to buy some Ripple.

When I returned home I started up the wallet on my laptop and it says I have way less than I actually have.

e.g. this transaction:

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/acf04882a3ba85f37c7212de9055c5c33f2f2f79f81c180ff9bbb306a55bdecb

3.62077 – laptop says I sent this, I did NOT
.01 - tablet says I sent this – I DID

What is going on!?

My laptop wallet says I have 8.0077071 BTC
Tablet wallet says I have 14.57890441 BTC

The tablet is correct, but why won’t the wallet on my laptop reflect this?  How do I fix it?

OK – just now to test I sent .001 from the tablet wallet to Cryptsy.  Laptop wallet says I just sent .2419!

Huh??

I assume you are using some kind of non deterministic wallet (like bitcoin core or the "old" multibit"). Judging by the section it would be bitcoin core, but that would be pretty heavy on a tablet. Anyway...

The TX in question is sending change worth ~3.6 BTC to 14qejgAVxgrm22d9jX8hbLA19CW3WmLYxq

The private key for this address was probably generated by your tablet and thus your laptop wallet does not know about it. Seeing that you are missing a bigger amount there are probably more transactions like these which resulted in change.

Export all private keys from the tablet and import them into the laptop wallet.