{"id":32,"date":"2016-06-27T01:52:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T01:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2017-01-22T22:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:15:24","slug":"how-to-send-ethers-in-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/how-to-send-ethers-in-mist\/","title":{"rendered":"How to send ethers in Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With your Mist wallet installed and synchronised to the test network, let&#8217;s send some test ether to a friend. This should take less than 5 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1>Step 1: Click send on the main screen<\/h1>\n<p>This should display a screen where you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Copy &amp;\u00a0paste in the address you wish to send the funds to (highly advise to not type it in!)<\/li>\n<li>Specify the amount you wish to send.<\/li>\n<li>The data field is for information to be placed on the block chain. (Ignore this for now).<\/li>\n<li>Customize the fee you wish to pay. (The default is fine).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.01.02-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-25 at 2.01.02 PM\" width=\"887\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.01.02-PM.png 887w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.01.02-PM-265x300.png 265w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.01.02-PM-768x868.png 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.01.02-PM-619x700.png 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Step 2: Click the send button<\/h1>\n<p>When you are ready, hit send and you&#8217;ll get a confirmation screen where you will have to provide your password.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.02.33-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-25 at 2.02.33 PM\" width=\"692\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.02.33-PM.png 692w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.02.33-PM-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a few seconds you should see the transaction appear at the bottom of Mist&#8217;s home page,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-35 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.56.58-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-25 at 2.56.58 PM\" width=\"892\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.56.58-PM.png 892w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.56.58-PM-300x64.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.56.58-PM-768x163.png 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-2.56.58-PM-700x148.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the balance appear in your friend&#8217;s wallet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-36 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"825\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image.png 825w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-768x668.png 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image-700x609.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A neat trick to get your address (when requesting funds) is to click on the &#8220;Main Account (Etherbase)&#8221; link (from the main wallet screen) to either show a QR code or to copy your address to the clipboard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-3.02.25-PM-1024x756.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-25 at 3.02.25 PM\" width=\"700\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-3.02.25-PM-1024x756.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-3.02.25-PM-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-3.02.25-PM-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-3.02.25-PM-700x517.png 700w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-25-at-3.02.25-PM.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With your Mist wallet installed and synchronised to the test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300-300x280.jpg",300,280,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mistsend300.jpg",300,280,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/ethereum\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ethereum<\/a>","tag_info":"Ethereum","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","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=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}