{"id":1248,"date":"2017-08-15T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2017-08-11T19:44:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:44:12","slug":"multibit-bitcoin-wallet-is-no-longer-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/15\/multibit-bitcoin-wallet-is-no-longer-supported\/","title":{"rendered":"Multibit bitcoin wallet is no longer supported"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t already heard, the bitcoin wallet MultiBit is no longer supported. Check out the announcement here.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was having issues back in late May and tried to move some funds out. It took just over 2 weeks for the transaction to be confirmed using the default fee setting!<\/p>\n

This<\/a> blog link provides instructions on how to move to an Electrum wallet.<\/p>\n

Electrum was a good wallet for a while. It then started getting buggy and I had to keep going to Manage wallet > Repair wallet just to get the correct amount showing.<\/p>\n

You need the seed in order to move the funds to Electrum. If you DO NOT have the seed but you still have access to the wallet, create a new wallet in MultiBit, write down the seed and then empty the funds from the first wallet to the second wallet.<\/p>\n

Here is how:<\/p>\n

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  1. Create a new wallet using the Create button on the Unlock screen when you first open the wallet. \"\"<\/li>\n
  2. Make sure you write down your wallet words and date stamp as usual<\/li>\n
  3. Unlock the new wallet and wait for sync to finish<\/li>\n
  4. Rename the wallet to Wallet2 for example.<\/li>\n
  5. Create a new receiving address and copy it to the clipboard – you don’t need an amount.<\/li>\n
  6. Use Exit\/Switch and select Switch to return to the Unlock screen<\/li>\n
  7. Unlock the old wallet and wait for sync to finish<\/li>\n
  8. Use Manage Wallet | Empty wallet to spend all your funds to the new wallet address \"\"<\/li>\n
  9. Do not delete your old wallet – others may still accidentally spend into it and you’ll need to access it to sweep those funds<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now that you’ve got the seed for the new wallet, you can proceed to restore it in Electrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you haven’t already heard, the bitcoin wallet MultiBit is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoins"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300-300x173.jpg",300,173,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/multibit300.jpg",300,173,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"Bitcoins<\/a>","tag_info":"Bitcoins","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}