Ok so I need quick help on a stupid problem

So I just transfered BTC from circle to the recieving address of this Bitcoin Core wallet thing, circle end says it's completed, but i have no BTC in my wallet. What's the deal?

(also, for some reason my bitcoin core wallet says sychronizing with network: 2 years behind)


Comments


[2 Points] theevoinsider:

2 years, damn boy youve got a long night ahead


[1 Points] redditulousfun:

Database is catching up let it run it will update and your coins will show


[1 Points] sapiophile:

/r/BitcoinBeginners

But the bottom line is that a Full Node wallet like Bitcoin Core has to download and verify the entire blockchain, which is the complete record of every Bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred. Currently that's over 30GB of data, I believe. In many cases it can take a few days.

Your balances in your wallet won't be known by Bitcoin Core until it has received and verfied the most recent blocks that include the transaction(s) that sent the coin to you. The coin is there, your wallet just doesn't know about it, yet.

Most users of Bitcoin don't want to bother with all the overhead that comes from running a Full Node wallet, and they use a "Light" or "SPV" wallet, like the Electrum wallet that comes pre-installed on Tails. Note that using a Light wallet without taking careful protections to keep it anonymous can be a very serious privacy problem, as light wallets query one or more untrusted server(s) to find out the balances of all of its addresses and send any transactions, meaning that the server will know which IP Address controls which addresses. That's why it's very highly recommended to only use the Electrum wallet included with Tails, because it is pre-configured to only connect over Tor.