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I have an amazon ec2 instance running a web server, MySQL server, and bitcoin daemon on ubuntu 14.04, and I ran ./bitcoind getnewaddress and the output was an address. I sent a few cents worth of bitcoin to that address, and I have been doing ./bitcoind getbalance for a few hours and still there is no balance.

Wondering if I needed to send to a particular accoutn instead of the main bitcoin daemon, I also sent a few cents to an address generated by ./bitcoind getnewaddress debug (just a test name) and did ./bitcoind getbalance debug. I have found nothing, I am not sure what the issue is. Port 8333 is open on the amazon vm, so I don't think the issue is there. bitcoind's rpc interface is running on port 8432 as specified by rpcport=8432 in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Any idea why I am not getting payments? I think there have been enough confirmations, I believe the number required is 6 required by default. I will check soon to make sure that there have been that many confirmations.

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  • Is your client synched? What is core's response on bitcoin-cli getblockcount?
    – user11221
    Nov 20, 2014 at 18:58
  • @GeorgeKimionis 281034, I'll check if that's up to date, one second please... (I started this bitcoind very recently, so maybe it hasn't finished syncing...)
    – user16871
    Nov 20, 2014 at 19:05
  • @GeorgeKimionis Grr, thats about 50,000 blocks behind. Does that mean I have to wait a few hours still?
    – user16871
    Nov 20, 2014 at 19:13
  • Yes, 281034 is mid January. This is the reason your transactions haven't appeared yet in your client.
    – user11221
    Nov 20, 2014 at 19:15
  • @GeorgeKimionis Alright, thanks. By the way, I am a free tier user of amazon and so I do not have very much storage on my server, 20 GB right now (I can get up to 30 if needed, I will probably have to). My storage is about 90% full, and I'm pretty sure that's because of the blockchain. Is there any way to only use the recent blocks or something so that I don't use this much storage?
    – user16871
    Nov 20, 2014 at 19:20

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Your client needs to be fully synchronized for your transactions to show up, otherwise it's not aware that these transactions ever took place.

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