Thank you guys, for the support! The transactions have been accepted in the network!

0.5 was correct and the previous was indeed 0.05. 0.5 was the total that i owed.

I think i can close this post.

(although it remains a mystery why core wasn't working in the first place)

A good, successful and healthy 2018 for all of you!

A grateful Peter

(I will have a look at Core again in 2018)

Ok an update.

Created VM installed Electrum.
Then i moved Private key to Electrum. Total balance is available as predicted (Yeaaahhhh, pfff that's a relieve)

A used the option "pay to many" in Tools, that's a bit scary with comma separation functionality but works like a charm!
Finally I let Electrum  suggest the fee. It estimated that the Tx should be confirmed in about 5 blocks (should be 50 minutes right?)
Tx send to the network at 23:29.

This is the id:
e68efb8fdf5e7d068014fe3d1244ba1ad8f55068c63fb7993ff824b0b9dc7814

But  9 hours later... no confirmation, still not enough fee? The fee was 0.001, can I speed up the TX by using "Child pays for parent" option in Electrum ?
I kind of want to get this over with...


Yeah you were right the total was +/- 2.9. But the total shown in Bitcoin Core was 2.88 (it already deducted the 0.05 TX)

Only the  first two TX in Bitcoin Core where confirmed, the last one was (and is still) unconfirmed, it shows a question mark to the far left.

Well i guess i am one step further but not totally there yet...

Kind regards Peter

Scrolling through your posts now Danny (sorry i m a single tasker)

Before getting into the hassle of new VM etc etc
Wouldn't it be easier to get the 0.05 tx conf then to start all over again (isn't this hanging TX going to cause trouble in Electrum?)

These are my TX'ids:

0.0002 Tx: daaef9d532d1a79b715ec28f561af99782b2ed4251abbbdd4e3cb5294dd1f0c3
2.8000 Tx: 633f05443310c5012c5a0360299c3627b8d838af1fbe4aa4a4ab20d74521d04b

0.0500 Tx : ae55f12d13c656a2107729dc3d7e0c7f8b2295c56376e9557347ce3479b9104e (unconf)

Thanks for walking with me here guys!

Peter (not so much over and out for tonight yet)

Yes the address is as you mentioned:
16u1VqPgTnGrAXQreLFBbVoUkgaATeHXKA

I'll try to install the electrum software (probably takes 200GB to download the block chain again right?)

Is going to take the rest of the evening i'm afraid...

Btc is a new kind of slavery i guess...

Wish me luck, over and out for tonight Peter

Oh no, 10 minutes ago the total balance was available and now the old situation has returned! this is how it looks (again):

avail: 0.0002
pend: 2.8
total:  2.8002

This is very strange, i go for the electrum option i guess.

Anyways 2.8 pending is better then 0 total

thanks guys (will make my payment from electrum then LoyceV )

It works, great!

Sorry for giving up so fast! With a rescan it works brilliant !

Can you leave your public key LoyceV ? (then i can do a first test  payment to you!)

Thank you so much!

Very greatfull , Peter!

Al others thank you very much aswell!

Oh hold on.. need te rescan aswell.. fingers crossed...

Well the result:

Available 0.000
Pending 0.000

total 0.000

Should i get worried?

I feel like the squirrel in Ice Age, what a joke! haha

(the feeling angry part still has to come i think)

All the arrows pointing to Electrum now?

I have a backup, does anyone know the restore statement?

I would greatly appreciate some good advice! Thx Peter

Thanx for the swift reply LoyceV!

No SSD here, hyper-v server, quite an old one. But Bitcoin core is much faster on Linux than old Windows 7 Bitcoin-qt version (?). Although that was a very old version of bitcoin-qt.

I'm going to try zapwallet option right now, let you know the outcome...

Cheers Peter

Well I tried "bitcoin-qt -rescan". It went from 1 % to 100% in 10 minutes or so. Not bad at all. But ...

No change in my pending total.

My new wallet has had an total activity of 3 Transaction. First two where transferring the old wallet balance. The third transaction was a test transaction of sending 0.05 BTC to a friends wallet.
The third transaction has 0 confirmations, it was offered to the network with a fee of 0.00000224 BTC. Obviously i was to greedy, because from 20 december up to now (28th of dec) nobody put it in a new blockchain. The transaction id of the third transaction can't be found anymore on Blockchain.info so i guess it is officially dead now.

My line of thinking was to create a new TX  (a fourth one) with the option "Request replace by-fee" ticked, sending 0.05 to the same wallet of my friend. But helas... I have insufficient available balance te create a new TX of 0.05. ... Looks like a Catch 22...

My available balance is 0.0002 BTC (my pending balance is still 2.. Should i try to send my last available balance to get the third TX afloat ? Silently hoping that this will get al of my pending total back to available, or is it something else?

Thanks again! Humble waiting for advice Peter..

Thanks for the answers and suggestions! It feels like a wam bath after a frustrating evening
I have a processed number of blocks of 501568 (looks like thats up to date (?) )
But still there is a pending total of +/- 2.8 BTC
I can try to move the private key to Electrum (thanks for the suggestion!) But i rather do it as last resort.
I prefer to understand what's going on.

Can it have anything to do with to transactions i've send from my old wallet (which was with Qt on windows 7) to my new wallet (which is on Linux Mint with Bitcoin Core) ?
On the same evening i started with sending 0.0002 BTC to my new wallet, to see if public keys were correct etc. This transactions has also more than 6000 confirmations. And this transaction is now shown as available balance ! (i would rather have it the other way around   first TX pending second available)

Final question: can i start rescan from the debug window? Or if that's impossible how do i start a rescan from a linux terminal?

Thanks for helping me out!

Peter

Hi,

Has anyone ever encountered a situation where a transaction is confirmed (more than 6000 times) but the total balance is still pending?
The problem occurs with TXid:633f05443310c5012c5a0360299c3627b8d838af1fbe4aa4a4ab20d74521d04b
and a Bitcoin core installation v015.01 64 bit
Could i get my balance to available? I need to pay a friend some BTC...
Bitcoin core blocks a new TX because of "exceeding available limits".

With kind regards,

Peter