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Ok, so I've got over 20,000 transaction thanks to Satoshidice and there have been a few unconfirmed transactions for many months now (both tx and rx) so today I decided I would transfer out all of the remaining Bitcoins and start a new wallet because I've had some issues with this one...

My final transaction (luckily fairly small) never made it so after a few hours of research I was able to find it on the unconfirmed list at bitcoincharts.com and it is still not showing up on blockchain.info in any way. This is cut and pasted directly from Bitcoin Charts and I'm hoping someone can please help me figure out why this transaction is stuck or what I can do to fix it.

I'm completely stumped, I have searched for hours but I can't figure out what to do. It's boxed in red and I'm thinking it has something to do with these unconfirmed inputs but I'm really not sure!? Desperately need some help please!

If there is even one input that won't confirm then your entire trx will not confirm.   Unfortunately the bitcoin qt client wasnt written expecting that you would be spending unconfirmed transactions.  Essentially there is no graceful recovery once you have as spend transaction that ends up being a double spend.  

Pywallet lets you remove all transactions and let the wallet fee resync.   That's a hassle for all but us techies.  Maybe transferring private keys to blockchain.info/wallet and emptying the wallet from there might beer the beat path forward for you.

http://blockchain.info/address/1Gvup1idfTzhDn9fbNi7MUnXCvXpp8SVYJ

using it as a source only since it shows the exact same BTC amt as what you reported above

it says 0 balance

it seems to me like you could reindex (or whatever the command is to re-do all the transactions) the entire wallet and then you'd have the erroneous balance of 3.99989991 again?   so omit the amounts from 1Gvup and it looks like that other account has like .0001 or something.  make the transaction fee larger than normal, giving it priority over ^^ that one (not sure if this is necessary or not, but might as well make it .000501 or something instead).   then send 1.4 or whatever instead of 3.99

(though, wouldn't this try to send from that 1Gvup account?  why does it report a balance anyway?  maybe have to send out another double spend from 1Gvup and 19fmQx first to empty them out????)

Thanks for the help, both of you :)

I tried for a few days and just couldn't find a solution, I tried a number of things including a rescan, deleted the blockchain and waited hours for it to re-download, and even went as far as using pywallet or whatever to remove those unconfirmed transactions.

What I *think* happened, and it sucks because my wallet shows about 35 more Bitcoins than what I apparently really have, but I had made a bet to Satoshidice for 17.5 BTC a while back which was shown on blockchain as a double spend although Satoshidice accepted the bet and sent me .005 or something like that back but that was also a double spend! THEN, my wallet must have tried later to resend the exact same bet (it must have seen that the first was a double spend) and again, got the same resulting loss from Satoshidice.

Hope that makes sense, I know it's a bit confusing...

So basically there are 2 outgoing bets of 17.5 BTC. One bet is valid and confirmed, the other bet never confirmed. There are 2 incoming transactions from Satoshidice for about .005 BTC and again, one payment is confirmed and the other is invalid. I believe, both outgoing could have been invalid - I'm going off of memory here.

What I ended up doing because my balance now showed as 0, was replacing my wallet.dat file with a very old copy so I knew the balance it showed was way off. I created a new wallet and sent myself a few smaller transactions - 1.4 BTC, then 1 BTC that never showed up, so I continued to send myself 0.01 transactions one at a time until they no longer confirmed. I'm *assuming* that by doing it this way I got all of the Bitcoins I actually had - it just sucks that my wallet resent that supposed double spend so quickly and made me lose 35 BTC :\

Anyways, I still have the old wallet file just in case but I'm using a new wallet now - so far without any problems *fingers crossed and knocking on wood* lol


If anyone has any further input it would be much appreciated! If I could get those 35 BTC back, or even the 17.5 BTC I'd be willing to send you half of it! :)

You may be missing some coins if you outspent your keypool.  If you sent >100 transactions since you backed up you wallet then you are missing some coins which went into "change" addresses.

Your .dat only holds 100 transactions, so if you loaded an old .dat then you wont have  any of your old coin.

You can try the lazy man's recovery method.

 - https://blockchain.info/wallet/import-wallet

[Edit: If you see any transactions without confirmations then either you didn't delete them or you somehow have peers that are still trying to re-broadcast them and your client is re-learning of them after you've deleted them.]

The correct approach here is to PUT BACK YOUR ORIGINAL WALLET. We can't know if your backup is good or not, especially if you have been gambling like crazy since the backup.

Then we will need to correct the balance in your wallet and regain control of any payments that you have sent out that have never been confirmed.

To do this I would advise the use of pywallet. In your Bitcoin client, note the transaction number of every payment both sent to you and that you have sent that has zero confirmations. Then shut down Bitcoin and run pywallet with the web interface, and remove the transactions from your wallet that have never confirmed. Go to the pywallet page to learn it's requirements (python) and how to run it (pywallet --web).

When you restart Bitcoin, do so with the -rescan option. This will rescan the blockchain looking for payments to your addresses and restore the actual balance of addresses you control. There should be no payments shown without the green "more than 6 confirmations" icon. Then you can send your balance to an address in a new wallet.