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Bitcoin => Mining => Topic started by: biglemon29 on March 04, 2017, 04:35:22 PM



Title: using a gpu miner to confirm your own transaction in limbo?
Post by: biglemon29 on March 04, 2017, 04:35:22 PM
So the other day I accidently send a transaction with no fees. To eventually make it go through I used a transaction accelerator. This made me wonder if I can use a simple cpu or gpu miner and tell it to confirm my own transaction if it ever gets stuck in limbo again. is this possible and how can I do it?


Title: Re: using a gpu miner to confirm your own transaction in limbo?
Post by: mocacinno on March 04, 2017, 04:39:38 PM
So the other day I accidently send a transaction with no fees. To eventually make it go through I used a transaction accelerator. This made me wonder if I can use a simple cpu or gpu miner and tell it to confirm my own transaction if it ever gets stuck in limbo again. is this possible and how can I do it?

Very, very unlikely.
You would have to solve a block with the same diff as the other miners, so you'd need a truckload of hashpower to do this... It's called solo mining, and its nearly possible to hit a block with a cpu/gpu minwr