Quote from: adamsworks on December 14, 2014, 08:24:58 AM

Quote from: bitkilo on December 14, 2014, 08:04:17 AM

Really need more details if you want help.
What wallet did you use?
What coins did you loose access over, the 7btc or the 0.715 btc transfer?
What did you engage in during you p2pool mining days that would cause this?

The coins are back now.... so everything is normal! But it defiantly scared the piss out of me for a little bit! LOL

I use MultiBit.... I use the default wallet in it. I lost access to the value listed in the subject for what appears to be one transaction or so (my spendable balance went down by the amount in the subject).

I did run my own P2Pool, and I had about 2.2 TH/s from February until fairly recently (mining just isn't as profitable as it used to be). It was a merged P2Pool, but nothing special.

I am going to assume it was all the smaller deposits of coins.....

Thanks for your offer of help anyways!

If you dont mind, Id like to explain the reason for this even though you allready regained access. This will happen again and I think its important that you understand it.

Its basically this:

Quote from: bcearl on December 14, 2014, 08:14:34 AM

I guess it was just the change and you needed some confirmations for your client to recognize that it is yours again.

Bitcoin works very similar to cash in a sense that you have bills that are not divisible. In your case you had a 0.715 354 32 BTC bill, among others. Every input you receive is a single bill and if you want to spend parts of it you will get change [1]. Some wallets allow you to spend "unconfirmed change", Multibit does not by default. Thus your 0.715... BTC are esentially gone until the transaction gets its first confirmation. If you take the TX-Id and watch it with a blockchain explorer you will see that there are two outputs. One for the person receiving your coins and one for your change. Until the change is confirmed multibit treats it as it would any other unconfirmed transactions and acts like it has no control over it.

[1] this is done durring the TX, its not like the other person is actually returning anything to you. Another picture is to imagine lumps of gold. Your 0.715... BTC lump of gold has to be melted down in order to be spend partially.