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Bitcoin => Electrum => Topic started by: neomax on January 02, 2017, 08:36:11 PM



Title: Unconfirmed Transaction for weeks
Post by: neomax on January 02, 2017, 08:36:11 PM
Hi,

A few weeks ago i tried to send all my wallet to another. Accidentally the fee used was 0. After weeks the transaction still unconfirmed and i canīt use the bitcoins that i tried to sed.

Have i lost my bitcoins?. What can do to recover them?.

Thank you


Title: Re: Unconfirmed Transaction for weeks
Post by: shorena on January 02, 2017, 08:52:34 PM
Hi,

A few weeks ago i tried to send all my wallet to another. Accidentally the fee used was 0. After weeks the transaction still unconfirmed and i canīt use the bitcoins that i tried to sed.

Have i lost my bitcoins?. What can do to recover them?.

Thank you

Remove the unconfirmed transaction from your wallet by restoring it from the seed and create a new TX with a higher fee.
IIRC you can use ! as amount to send all coins.


Title: Re: Unconfirmed Transaction for weeks
Post by: neomax on January 02, 2017, 10:29:43 PM
Hi,

I have just tried it but the "Unconfirmed Transaction" still appear in my new generated wallet.

Regards


Title: Re: Unconfirmed Transaction for weeks
Post by: shorena on January 02, 2017, 10:33:36 PM
Hi,

I have just tried it but the "Unconfirmed Transaction" still appear in my new generated wallet.

Regards

In that case you might have to try a more drastic approach -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1736269.msg17370760#msg17370760


Title: Re: Unconfirmed Transaction for weeks
Post by: Abdussamad on January 02, 2017, 10:42:00 PM
look up the tx id on a block explorer like blockchain.info. if it's listed there then some mining pools are still carrying that in their memory and it might yet confirm.  you can get the tx id  by right clicking on the tx in the history tab and selecting details.



Title: Re: Unconfirmed Transaction for weeks
Post by: kolloh on January 03, 2017, 12:38:22 AM
You can try to push through the transaction by sending another transaction with the change from the first transaction but with a high fee. This sometimes causes the miners to push through both transactions in order to claim the fees.