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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: kireinaha on April 03, 2013, 05:43:08 PM



Title: Bitcoin-QT Ophaned Transactions
Post by: kireinaha on April 03, 2013, 05:43:08 PM
Simple question -- If a transaction remains as 0/unconfirmed for long enough in the Bitcoin-QT wallet, will it eventually delete and return the money to my BTC balance? ???


Title: Re: Bitcoin-QT Ophaned Transactions
Post by: Stephen Gornick on April 04, 2013, 01:45:12 AM
Simple question -- If a transaction remains as 0/unconfirmed for long enough in the Bitcoin-QT wallet, will it eventually delete and return the money to my BTC balance? ???

If your client sent the funds, no ... never, at least not automatically.

Other nodes will eventually push that transaction out of the way to make room in the memory pool for more recently received transactions.  At the same time, your client will sporadically (e.g., at least once an hour) notice that the transaction has not confirmed and will re-broadcast the transaction to its peers.  Those other nodes that have pushed the transaction out will re-learn of the transaction when it gets re-broadcast.


Title: Re: Bitcoin-QT Ophaned Transactions
Post by: DannyHamilton on April 04, 2013, 03:21:11 PM
Simple question -- If a transaction remains as 0/unconfirmed for long enough in the Bitcoin-QT wallet, will it eventually delete and return the money to my BTC balance? ???

No, but I think you can use pywallet to remove the transaction from your wallet so it will stop broadcasting it.  Then the transaction should eventually drop out of the memory pools of the peers and the bitcoins should once again be available in your wallet.