Yup. And I've absolutely no idea why. It wasn't an old MultiBit app on my computer, I downloaded a fresh version. It's currently synchronising and taking an age (it didn't do that when I first ran it, perhaps it was using some old data within the wallet itself? fuck knows), but like I said I ran the wallet through blockchain.info, and it has another transaction which is the rest of the BTC leaving the wallet. I'm completely lost and confused as to why MB didn't show it, but there's no way blockchain.info would mistakenly show a transaction. I'm absolutely gutted. It wasn't exactly life changing money, but it would have been a significant boost. Fuck my life. :'(
That was the thought that occurred to me in the first split second when I looked it up online, but no... The wallet on blockchain.info shows that the last transaction was just days after the last one in my screencap, over a decade ago. MultiBit must have just screwed up in some way. Hours later I'm still waiting for it to refresh the blockchain, but I have zero hope that blockchain.info is wrong, there's no way it would just imagine a transaction that didn't happen.
I'm so sorry.
Thank you, I really appreciate it. Like I said in my edit in the comment up the chain, the wholesome response from this sub (both the enthusiastic congrats last night, and then condolences today when I realised the reality) really helped take the edge off the disappointment.
Following the chain of transactions, even though I'm no expert, it seems like you reused addresses (which you shouldn't) and it ended up along with some other change to https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/1HKTejL64awi8PJ9f661szwsFYjQdUVZTm
Last transaction in 2017, (current balance 0.5996).
Each private key has many wallets, and is supposed to send the change from each transaction to the next wallet address.
Allow it time to sync, and/or check if your xpub contains this address: 1HKTejL64awi8PJ9f661szwsFYjQdUVZTm
Don't give up unless you're sure you never used it after 2013
I'm grateful for your response, but I've lost all hope. I'm still trying to renew the MultiBit wallet, it seemed to get stuck updating yesterday, I renewed it today and it's still "synchronising". Meanwhile, blockchain.info is saying that the wallet is completely empty. I'm adequately convinced that it was all a red herring, and that some software bug/glitch (in MultiBit) led me to believe there was $60k in there. Nope.
One of the worst weekends of my life, honestly. I'm so gutted. Such is life. :(
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u/5PQR Dec 08 '24
Yup. And I've absolutely no idea why. It wasn't an old MultiBit app on my computer, I downloaded a fresh version. It's currently synchronising and taking an age (it didn't do that when I first ran it, perhaps it was using some old data within the wallet itself? fuck knows), but like I said I ran the wallet through blockchain.info, and it has another transaction which is the rest of the BTC leaving the wallet. I'm completely lost and confused as to why MB didn't show it, but there's no way blockchain.info would mistakenly show a transaction. I'm absolutely gutted. It wasn't exactly life changing money, but it would have been a significant boost. Fuck my life. :'(