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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: tabbycat on December 02, 2016, 05:52:38 PM



Title: how do you double spend a electrum wallet?
Post by: tabbycat on December 02, 2016, 05:52:38 PM
Hello i got two bitcoin transactions not confirming and i want to know the best way to double spend it so i can cancel it and redo the fees. any tutorials ? I checked the forums and im a bit confused with all these programs or whatever i have to use.


Title: Re: how do you double spend a electrum wallet?
Post by: pooya87 on December 03, 2016, 05:09:08 AM
There are no easy ways to double spend using Electrum because it doesn't allow you to drop a transaction or even make a new transaction with the same inputs.
You have two options AFAIK:
1. Wait for the transaction to either confirm or drop out of mempool so you can spend it again.
2. Make a new raw transaction outside Electrum and sign it with Electrum but then I think you will have trouble broadcasting it because Electrum possibly won't allow it and explorers like blockchain.info may also not allow pushing a double spend.