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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: Xmeniiiiii on September 29, 2022, 08:01:33 PM



Title: Electrum 4.3.2 Need help
Post by: Xmeniiiiii on September 29, 2022, 08:01:33 PM
Hello, for 2 years I have been replenishing my wallet every day for a small amount, I wanted to save up for the future. now I decided to transfer everything to the stock exchange and the transfer does not work.

I get a message:
The server returned an error when sending a transaction.
Try connecting to another server or updating electrum.
The transaction was rejected because it was too large (in bytes).

What should I do?  :'(


Title: Re: Electrum 4.3.2 Need help
Post by: LoyceMobile on September 29, 2022, 08:08:53 PM
Select a smaller number of inputs. You may need to enable the Coins tab for that.
And manually select a low fee, I have a topic about consolidating many small inputs.


Title: Re: Electrum 4.3.2 Need help
Post by: Charles-Tim on September 29, 2022, 08:13:57 PM
Electrum can not go more than 100KB. Your transaction is too large than what electrum can send. Try make use of coin control to reduce the inputs and send in different transactions. Advisable to customize the fee to 1 sat/byte for each transaction.

Select a smaller number of inputs. You may need to enable the Coins tab for that.
And manually select a low fee, I have a topic about consolidating many small inputs.
So far he is sending all to an exchange, he does not need to consolidate. He can just reduce the inputs by send the coins in many transactions to the exchange.


Title: Re: Electrum 4.3.2 Need help
Post by: Xmeniiiiii on September 29, 2022, 09:02:21 PM
thank you very much, it turned out)))


Title: Re: Electrum 4.3.2 Need help
Post by: LoyceV on September 30, 2022, 06:56:15 AM
So far he is sending all to an exchange, he does not need to consolidate.
That's still consolidating ;)

thank you very much, it turned out)))
Glad it worked out. I'm curious: how many inputs did you collect? Two years with daily deposits means more than 700 inputs, which indeed leads to a very large transaction (and thus a high transaction fee).
For what it's worth: if you can avoid collecting small inputs, for instance by making it a weekly instead of a daily transaction, you save a lot on fees by avoiding many dust inputs. See Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs! (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2848987.0) for more information.


Title: Re: Electrum 4.3.2 Need help
Post by: DireWolfM14 on September 30, 2022, 03:27:12 PM
thank you very much, it turned out)))

Glad it worked out for you.  As Charles-Tim mentioned, Electrum can only handle 100kb per transaction.  If memory serves me correctly, that amount to about 500 inputs.  If you're collecting one transaction per day, you should be able to consolidate a year's worth of inputs without issue, so it may behoove you to establish a specific date that you'll consolidate all your inputs annually.  That'll prevent you from having to go through this again in the future.