Here are the details.
- Bought 9,000 BTC on one of the exchanges over time.
- Transferred them to my client running on a linux live CD distro of Debian.
- Backed up the wallet file to a flash drive.
- Sent 1 BTC to myself
- Closed client before any confirmations
- Shut down system (wiped system disk loaded into memory and therefore the ./bitcoin folder
- Loaded system back up Copied old wallet.dat file into ./bitcoin folder
- After some confirmations appeared the balance was 1 BTC and there was a transaction saying I spent 8,900 BTC to an address I did not recognize
- I read on the forum threads that people have had problems like this but it seemed only when they were trying to double-spend by sending coins to another address and reloading an old wallet file
Is there anything I can do?
I do have the address that the 8,900 were supposedly sent to but the old wallet file is gone for good.
Thanks, Stone Man