Very good! I got an email from the password reset the fourth time I tried it (there were none in my spam folder from before). Thanks for the support, I was slightly scared Id been permanently locked out of my account. On my browser the Lost password? link doesnt work when you enter your username and password wrong, which is why I went to support then forgotten password from there. Feel like a bit of a whiner now lol.

Thanks for the detailed replies! It will be interesting to see what happens when/if all the bitcoins are mined...

Yeah, I used the support area lost password reset accidentally. Turns out you have separate accounts for when you are contacting their support desk... anyway I have used the correct password reset now but I do not receive any password reset emails. This is a common problem from googling it seems, their password reset simply doesnt work and doesnt send out emails. Very useful I am starting to wish Id used a different exchange now as I do not really wish to wait forever and a day for them to give access to my money! The most frustrating thing is I can see no reason why I am locked out of my account since I know my password (for definite) but it will not login with it!!

Hey, just a few dozen questions that I cant find a satisfactory answer to from the wiki or anywhere else on the internet

1. When almost all bitcoins have been mined, is the only incentive for people to continue mining operations, to gain transaction fees? Would this be enough?

2. As the bitcoin network grows exponentially, wouldn't there come a point where there are so many transactions etc going on that the network finds it hard to cope and it begins to take ages to do simple transfers? This may be completely wrong, I just get the impression from when synchronizing more recent block chain blocks are so much larger and take longer to download than early ones.

3. (I have read about this question on the wiki but am still not entirely sure) Your 'wallet' is just a private alphanumeric string with which all the bitcoins that belong to you are associated, or something more in that .dat file? And receiving addresses are simply public addresses for your wallet for people to send bitcoins to?

4. If tonnes of nodes went offline for whatever reason, so the bitcoin network shrunk to a fraction of its size, even if only temporarily, what impact would this have on the vulnerability of the network to an attack and the average transaction speed?

Cheers! Please forgive my newbie lack of knowledge if some of these questions are nonsensical. I have read alot about bitcoins but dont have a computing background

Xenon

Hi, I am fairly new to bitcoins. I first read about them in June but now after a bit of research and with a couple of friends we've decided to take the plunge and buy some. The other day I made an account with Mt Gox and sent some money by bank deposit to them, but my account has completely disappeared. I cannot login with my username and password but more worryingly, their password reset form says that there is no account associated with my email, which I find bizarre. After a bit of googling I've found that I am not the only one with this problem (cf: https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20233722-no-answers-from-mt-gox-claiming-password-reset).

I thought Mt Gox had a reputation as the main exchange for buying bitcoins? It was not an awful amount of money as really it was just to use between me and my friends for fun but I am still worried, how reliable are Mt Gox/what experiences have people had? Ive sent them a support ticket and hoping they can resolve it but really if I do not get my money back or access to my account I would be worried to try buying bitcoins again.