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Title: double spend or cancel
Post by: kaptastic on February 23, 2017, 01:10:23 AM
Can anyone help me cancel a transaction or run a "double spend" on it so it isn't rejected by the node as it has been before.  I sent bit before my bit was confirmed.  Its now stuck in limbo.  It goes from unconfirmed to unconfirmed parent and back.  I attempted to buy more bit, send it to electrum, and send it as well.  I waited for the received transaction to get 4 confirmations and tried to send.  It is not confirming as well.  Any solution would be great. 

I attempted to sweep the keys, but when I enter my private keys the sweep tab does not allow action. 

first transaction was made about 55 hrs ago
TXID:  d51fa05986a0f2615e1f001172e26e6158898eb7559a0b1c7218a3966b19b131

Mac computer

Thanks,


Title: Re: double spend or cancel
Post by: kolloh on February 23, 2017, 01:35:18 AM
Can anyone help me cancel a transaction or run a "double spend" on it so it isn't rejected by the node as it has been before.  I sent bit before my bit was confirmed.  Its now stuck in limbo.  It goes from unconfirmed to unconfirmed parent and back.  I attempted to buy more bit, send it to electrum, and send it as well.  I waited for the received transaction to get 4 confirmations and tried to send.  It is not confirming as well.  Any solution would be great. 

I attempted to sweep the keys, but when I enter my private keys the sweep tab does not allow action. 

first transaction was made about 55 hrs ago
TXID:  d51fa05986a0f2615e1f001172e26e6158898eb7559a0b1c7218a3966b19b131

Mac computer

Thanks,

I've ran this transaction through Via's accelerator so it should likely confirm within the next hour or two when Via gets their next block.


Title: Re: double spend or cancel
Post by: kaptastic on February 23, 2017, 01:45:24 AM
Thank you!

I have another that may self correct when this one goes through, but it may stay in limbo.

txid #2: 65c4679d78d7163f95e1f2a5c0ef08c4f14c641f12cd4f1f9d2a492ac2c44183

Can you help with this as well?


Title: Re: double spend or cancel
Post by: kolloh on February 23, 2017, 02:40:23 AM
Thank you!

I have another that may self correct when this one goes through, but it may stay in limbo.

txid #2: 65c4679d78d7163f95e1f2a5c0ef08c4f14c641f12cd4f1f9d2a492ac2c44183

Can you help with this as well?

It looks like the first already confirmed  ;D. The new transaction has fees of 100 sat/byte which is better but it looks like miners want 180-200 sat/byte for the quickest confirms.

I've ran this transaction through the accelerator as well to help speed up the process for you.


Title: Re: double spend or cancel
Post by: BitcoinNewsMagazine on February 23, 2017, 02:48:45 AM
Electrum has an option to enable dynamic fees, you should set the slider to high. You can't count on the ViaBTC accelerator to fix your mistakes.


Title: Re: double spend or cancel
Post by: kaptastic on February 23, 2017, 02:51:03 AM
Perfect!  Thanks!  I turned fee slider up to the max on electrum.  One may think that would be large enough.  

I switched it to dynamic so i should be good in the future.  thanks again


Title: Re: double spend or cancel
Post by: BitcoinNewsMagazine on February 23, 2017, 03:11:48 AM
Perfect!  Thanks!  I turned fee slider up to the max on electrum.  One may think that would be large enough.  

I switched it to dynamic so i should be good in the future.  thanks again

No problem. Electrum does a very good job of estimating fees so you get confirmed quickly without spending too much.