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Hi,

I've got a problem with a transaction which has been stuck in the mempool for around 3 days now. I used electrum to send the transaction and I made the mistake of not setting the fees high enough. On top of that, I didn't enable Replace-By-Fee, and the transaction has only 1 recipient which is an address I don't control, and no change outputs.

In short I did everything possible to make this transaction irreversible.   :-\

I just want to know how I can get this transaction to confirm or for the network to forget about it. I wouldn't be worried except the destination address is one I don't control. I'm running a bitcoin core node and have noticed the abandontransaction command. Would this be any help?

Would it be worth a try to import the private key into my node then try to re-broadcast a new transaction which spends the same outputs, in the hope that nodes that haven't heard about the original transaction will replace it with the new one? I know that as a last resort I can pay a miner directly to include the transaction in a block, but I'd rather not pay more than I have to.

I'd rather not share the transaction ID for privacy reasons.

Appreciate any help

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