<p>I have an amazon ec2 instance running a web server, MySQL server, and bitcoin daemon on ubuntu 14.04, and I ran ./bitcoind getnewaddress and the output was an address. I sent a few cents worth of bitcoin to that address, and I have been doing ./bitcoind getbalance for a few hours and <strong>still</strong> there is no balance.</p>

<p>Wondering if I needed to send to a particular accoutn instead of the main bitcoin daemon, I also sent a few cents to an address generated by ./bitcoind getnewaddress debug (just a test name) and did ./bitcoind getbalance debug. I have found nothing, I am not sure what the issue is. Port 8333 is open on the amazon vm, so I don't think the issue is there. bitcoind's rpc interface is running on port 8432 as specified by rpcport=8432 in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Any idea why I am not getting payments? I think there have been enough confirmations, I believe the number required is 6 required by default. I will check soon to make sure that there have been that many confirmations.</p>

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2014-11-20T19:05:14.497Z
@GeorgeKimionis 281034, I'll check if that's up to date, one second please... (I started this bitcoind very recently, so maybe it hasn't finished syncing...)
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@GeorgeKimionis Grr, thats about 50,000 blocks behind. Does that mean I have to wait a few hours still?
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@GeorgeKimionis Alright, thanks. By the way, I am a free tier user of amazon and so I do not have very much storage on my server, 20 GB right now (I can get up to 30 if needed, I will probably have to). My storage is about 90% full, and I'm pretty sure that's because of the blockchain. Is there any way to only use the recent blocks or something so that I don't use this much storage?
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2014-11-20T19:47:35.997Z
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/18843/discussion-between-user16871-and-george-kimionis).
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Why am I not getting payments on my bitcoind on an amazon ec2 instance?
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# Why am I not getting payments on my bitcoind on an amazon ec2 instance?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-11-20)

I have an amazon ec2 instance running a web server, MySQL server, and bitcoin daemon on ubuntu 14.04, and I ran ./bitcoind getnewaddress and the output was an address. I sent a few cents worth of bitcoin to that address, and I have been doing ./bitcoind getbalance for a few hours and **still** there is no balance.

Wondering if I needed to send to a particular accoutn instead of the main bitcoin daemon, I also sent a few cents to an address generated by ./bitcoind getnewaddress debug (just a test name) and did ./bitcoind getbalance debug. I have found nothing, I am not sure what the issue is. Port 8333 is open on the amazon vm, so I don't think the issue is there. bitcoind's rpc interface is running on port 8432 as specified by rpcport=8432 in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Any idea why I am not getting payments? I think there have been enough confirmations, I believe the number required is 6 required by default. I will check soon to make sure that there have been that many confirmations.

**Tags:** transactions, wallet, bitcoind, network, amazon-web-services

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: @GeorgeKimionis 281034, I'll check if that's up to date, one second please... (I started this bitcoind very recently, so maybe it hasn't finished syncing...)  
> **username_0**: @GeorgeKimionis Grr, thats about 50,000 blocks behind. Does that mean I have to wait a few hours still?  
> **username_0**: @GeorgeKimionis Alright, thanks. By the way, I am a free tier user of amazon and so I do not have very much storage on my server, 20 GB right now (I can get up to 30 if needed, I will probably have to). My storage is about 90% full, and I'm pretty sure that's because of the blockchain. Is there any way to only use the recent blocks or something so that I don't use this much storage?  
> **username_0**: Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/18843/discussion-between-username_0-and-george-kimionis).  

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