More and more people complain about not only about high fees, but especially transactions stuck in the limbo ( even for 3 weeks or more... ).

I am sure there is something wrong with most wallet's mempool management, like they keep re-broadcasting the transactions forever even if it's clear that they are never gonna be confirmed, due to low fees.

But even if the devs cannot fix that, why they did not allow to do a Replace-By-Fee more than once?
If there was not such restriction, there would be no stuck transaction.
Many people happen to choose a low fee not only upon TX creation, but also when they issue a Replace-By-Fee they raise the fee but still not enough.
And after then they can't do anything.
 
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Example tx: https://blockchain.info/tx/a7050759f3429363005f370c77814ce4a396f34faa6e081d7289f58ac89d834b
This one was sent the 6th Dec. and re-broadcast with Replace-By-Fee around the 19th Dec.  , but still with low fee.
At least 3 weeks have passed and i suppose it's lost forever.
Suppose the amount sent was not a few bucks but $15k !!
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We talked about Segwit2x , but it's still not clear to me if it will be a new currency altogether, or a simple wallet update?

In the first case we are still not fixing the issues with Bitcoin, just asking the people to move to another currency and that's not a solution, because common people only know about BTC.

So my question is: will the devs just update the wallets instead of creating a separate currency/blockchain ?

THIS ^

We don't need forks now ( A.K.A. new currencies ), we need to FIX the original BTC blockchain , because the real VIP of the cryptocurrencies is Bitcoin, and not Litecoin nor Bitcoin Cash etc., so if BTC loses value/price due to transaction issues, then all the other cryptos would fall down.

The other cryptos reputation and value strongly depend on the original one, the pioneer, which is BTC.

So they should fix BTC, not create another currency.
Because the common people only heard about Bitcoin, not even Litecoin nor Ethereum.

But alas i guess the official team is just planning to create a separate currency/blockchain, not to fix Bitcoin.
Right?

Today this B2X hard fork has launched: http://b2x-segwit.io

But they are not the same people behind Bitcoin Core , and there are just a bunch of exchanges that support that, and that suggests me this is not the official  fork.

So we are going to have 2 different Segwit2x currencies ?

And most important: if we have BTC on our local wallet, how can we claim these B2X ?
There seems not to be any info.

If Yobit and HitBTC were able to automatically give B2X to BTC holders today, we must be able to claim B2X manually by ourselves as well, as the
 claim procedure should be the same for anyone who has a private key.

I don't understand why you all are so lazy and afraid of beating someone in their face.

We can be many if we go there together. What do you fear?

These bastards will give us our money very quickly when there are physical consequences to them, trust me.

Just find out who they are and where is their residential address, and we get there.
What's the matter?

We have also the Skycoin project that apparently has the same goal: be a TOR alternative ( other than a crypto ).

So if the dev team here is sleeping, its competitor SKY may lead this market easily

I have to check out the tech papers of both projects before being sure if they are really a valid TOR alternative.
They offer a faster web navigation than TOR but i wonder if the level of anonimity is the same!

That would mean these devs did a better job than TOR devs and i am very skeptical !!

On Coinomi use the Import Private Key feature.
Use that to scan your private key's QR code from the PC screen.

Of course you have to make the QR code from your private key first.
From btgwallet.online go to New=>Address ,  you can paste your private key there and on the next page the QR code should appear.

@player514
They can act like that because we are not gonna physically beat them.

We must find their identity and a group of us must go together at their place and give them what they deserve.

Is that difficult??
If CloudFlare doesn't want to reveal us the Bittrex owners names, we beat the Cloudflare employees too

I prefer giving a punch to someone than losing thousands of bucks, don't you ?

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EDIT: now i finally see my 0.25 BTC on my balance.
Just after i started reporting my case on here... very strange coincidence

I have deposited 0.25 BTC and the amount is not showing up in my Balance.
Transaction : https://blockchain.info/tx/3d676a49827071eccb8c944a47216a55170857335761f8a5908779d10ca737d7
Bittrex deposit address: 1CeJVuEHPqLG4BQBqx4Ugq7nKKwXNkv39P

Opened a support request but at this point i doubt they reply.

We have to catch them.
Let's find out their identity.

We have to contact CloudFlare and ask who those people are !!

Can i run MYST over TOR?

Is this more or less a TOR alternative?

And on top of that, the MYST network gives me earnings if i just maintain a node and give my bandwidth ?

EDIT: answering my own question. Yes, i've read the whitepaper.
Seems a very interesting project and people needs that in these times.

Yes i am running a local full node.
An easier but resource-intensive way

@achow101 Thanks!
I may want to tip you but the network fees discourage me
If you have an LTC or BCH wallet it's better

I need to detect the coin deposits to a given address, and i do it with listtransactions

The manual https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-reference#listtransactions
says that "conflicted" transactions appear with -1 confirmations.


And also it says that the "walletconflicts" field would be non-empty if other transactions spend the same UTXO

Then how can i check if a transaction is an "original" one , and not just an RBF or CPFP of another tx ?
If i don't do that, i risk counting some amount deposits twice , i.e. i would count RBF/CPFP transactions as well.

IMO i should just see if the confirmations are >= 1 , because an RBF/CPFP transaction would have -1 confirmations.
Or maybe check if "walletconflicts" is empty

What do you think?

Thanks


p.s. Maybe there's no problem with RBF , as an RBF transaction actually replaces the original transaction in the mempool of all the nodes, so that it becomes the original one, right?
Then i should only worry about CPFP

Same problem here.
Transaction stuck for 2 weeks and still there.

I don't understand why the Blockchain protocol does not have a timeout after which an unconfirmed transaction is automatically rejected/forgotten by the nodes.
Why didn't the developers implemented that ?
It was a so obvious solution

Many scammer "tx accelerators" are there that ask huge amounts. Don't trust them.

OP you should contact that website and ask them to replace the tx fee with a higher fee ( Opt-in RBF feature). If they have Bitcoin Core on their machines they can do it.
Maybe you can pay them something for it.

Also a friend of mine sent a low-fee tx from Electrum , it's still there in the limbo after 2 weeks!

A few years back i did the same from Blockchain.info.
After 3 days it got rejected with no problems.
So i thought there is a 3-days timeout built-in in the blockchain protocol.

But now i see that many transactions can be stuck for weeks, then the "time-out" is not a fixed value? Can be forever?

I still don't understand what the timeout depends on, since it's not a constant time value it must vary depending on something.

If anyone has a technical explanation on this, or a link to some resource, would  appreciate.

Which transaction id is that?

My friend did the same and is still waiting after 2 weeks now...

Thanks.

I had the suspect that Electrum resends the rejected transactions all the time , because a friend of mine has Electrum too, he tried to send this transaction the 6th December https://blockchain.info/tx/a7050759f3429363005f370c77814ce4a396f34faa6e081d7289f58ac89d834b
and still unconfirmed!!

Transactions are supposed to be rejected by the network after max 1 week, but now it's taking 2 weeks
2 weeks is not normal

I have tried to send this low-fee transaction: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/3d676a49827071eccb8c944a47216a55170857335761f8a5908779d10ca737d7
and it shows "Low Fee" on Electrum.

Then i have tried to replace it with Child Pays For Parent : https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/3c3592f243fb3706be663c29f76546fcb4bdf0676c5d507b78516b920e29d619
But it shows "Unconfirmed parent".

I wanna manually edit the wallet file to make Electrum "forget" about the first transaction, in order to prevent it to re-broadcast it to the network so that the second transaction will be confirmed, hopefully.

1- Is that the way to go, to let the second transaction be confirmed?

2- Is there a tutorial about manually editing the local ELectrum files, in order to prevent the wallet to re-send the transaction forever?

Good job. Seems the right way.
So this Kumala guy was using this forum behind TOR ?

If not, we can ask the admins which IPs did he use

The first steps we should do:

1- find out at which company the Vircurex site was hosted

2- gently ask that company if they give us the IPs that the Vircurex owners used to access the hosting service, along with the personal information about them.
Maybe they are not motivated to give this us personal information , but we can pay them for that

We should find out who this guy is and where he is.

Then we get to him together personally to get our money back....  "gently"

Don't expect the cops to help you, we better take justice into our own hands

This would be my approach. What do you think?