It’s a good thing I don’t have my retirement savings in my ethereum wallet, right now as I write this, my wallet which should show ETH 205 is showing ETH 0!

Googling around I see there are others which are having the same issue, it seems to have relationship with not having a synchronised blockchain. So I’m synchronising it to see if this fixes the issue.

I am not really concerned with having lost the funds, since I can see them in etherscan.io, so let’s see what needs to be done to get them back into my wallet 🙂

I wanted to access my ETH to exchange it with XMR (Monero), the promising new cryptocurrency which addresses some privacy concerns which bitcoin has. Since I don’t know when I’ll be able to access my ETH, I’ve decided to use half my Bitcoin (XBT) balance to buy some Monero.

UPDATE: After two hours updating the local copy of the ethereum blockchain, my wallet is now showing the correct balance 🙂