Quote from: surfwaxplease69 on July 21, 2012, 11:52 amshould i wait a few days? how long exactly is a "while"? sorry im not trying to sound impatient i just get very nervous when my $$ is floating around in cyberspaceThe rate varies according to your system, Internet connection and most importantly how many connections to the Bitcoin network you have. The bottom right-hand corner of the Bitcoin-qt client will tell you whether or not your wallet is encrypted, how many connections you have to the Bitcoin network, how many blocks you have downloaded and whether or not it is up to date.Currently there are a little over 190,000 blocks in the network. So if you're client has 180,000 of them it won't take too long for that to update, but if it only has 30,000 of them then it will take some time.