I have an incoming transaction with insufficient fees to confirm it. It flits between LOCAL or UNCONFIRMED. It's currently 130vMb from the tip (Electrum) or 112vMb on Blockstream. I think it's slowly getting further from the tip and it's been like this for 10 days.

Options in Electrum are to BROADCAST it or CPFP both of which I think are pointless or to DELETE it. I have no idea what deleting it does, would it return to sender, if so how long would that take? Then start again with appropriate fees?

Sender could RBF it but I'm not sure if there's a difference in RBF a LOCAL only transaction or an UNCONFIRMED one. If deleting it returns the BTC to the sender perhaps that's a better option?

TIA
Eddy

Or, check the usb stick for files dated around Sept-Oct 2020?
Tim

Thanks, forgot to mention I used BTCnitro to rebroadcast the tx once the purge limit was below my fee rate. Not entirely sure if being way below the purge rate for ~10 days meant it had been purged/removed and would never be confirmed or If it would be confirmed eventually anyway.

Once I have to migrate to Trezor Suite I have more options, RBF and Native Segwit I believe. Not keen on being a beta Suite guinea pig. Web wallet gives no options at all other than to sit it out and 'wait for the funds to be returned' as Trezor say.
Eddy

An update. Have been checking mempool/space frequently for two weeks and watching the sats/vbyte rate dropping. 11.34 BST today the tx received a timestamp and now has 5 confirmations. Tx has taken 16 days due to me setting a low fee rate.

Lesson for me - check current average fee rates before doing a tx.

Eddy

Thanks.

Checked another site last night and it was sitting 148 blocks from top of mempool. This morning it's 141. It is marked as Segwit but not rbf.

Trezor say it will either get confirmed or returned.

Found someone else with similar problem, they set a 1 Sat/byte fee and sent BTC 28th January!! still unconfirmed today.

However, mempool says that tsx was first seen 12th April and is now 240 blocks below top of mempool. Does that mean it was removed and re-queued so to speak? Same tsxid.

Still trying to learn the trezor one using the web wallet, Suite is only beta at present but I will eventually be forced over to Suite which has more functionality and can bump & rbf.

Will sit it out for time being and reply if/when it's confirmed or returned.
Edward

Thanks,

Currently using Trezor's Wallet and Bridge I see no options to do anything with this TSX. AFAIK Suite is going to replace Wallet which gives options to bump & RBF. Will have to migrate to Suite at some point.

For the moment it's just a waiting game for it to be returned? Purged to me means it's been removed and will not be processed?
Edward

I sent my son some BTC from my Trezor 1 to his Electrum wallet.

Have checked mempool for my transaction and see I made a massive error in setting fees at er..... 7.1 sat/vbyte! on April 16th. Default fees were at ~14% so I reduced them, mistake I know. Estimated time was 1 day & 22 hours which was OK. Next block is average at ~272 sat/vbyte.

The tsx showed up in his electrum wallet as unconfirmed for two days then disappeared and now shows no such tsx.

My Trezor still shows the unconfirmed tsx. Mempool shows TSXs under 19 sat/Vbyte being purged and this figure is rising daily.

Now been five days and not sure if it will be unconfirmed for weeks or if it will be returned to Trezor. Not using Suite and can't see anyway of increasing fee or using RBF. So actually I can't do anything except wait and see what happens.

I think I'm seeing the current block with sat/vbyte ranging from 1 - 146, average 132. What happens to the 1 sat/vbyte TSXs? do they remain 'unconfirmed' or purged?

Has this TSX been purged or is that yet to come? mempool says ETA - in several hours or more.

Lesson learned - check mempool delay and fee rate.

If my understanding of the above is wrong please let me know, not sure about posting the TSX ID, is that OK?
Thanks
Edward

Thanks
Eddy

mocacinno,

Thanks for the reply, didn't think it was an Electrum issue but didn't know where else to ask.

I think the ATM has recently been taken over by Satoshi as previous operator's website has disappeared and their only other ATM has been has been down for 1 Month and 13 Days.

Have an email for Satoshi so will give that a go.
Thanks
Eddy

Using Electrum 3.3.8.

Tried to purchase BTC at usual ATM. Coinradar said it was working. ATM accepted qr code and identified correct receiving address, touched screen option for up to £500. Inserted £20 which was spat out with screen message TRANSACTION CASH LIMIT EXCEEDED.

ATM operator is Satoshi ATM UK Ltd who offer no phone support.

Fairly new to crypto world so I don't know if the message means;

1. My wallet has exceeded a cash limit.
2. Receiving Address has exceeded a cash limit.
3. ATM can't take anymore cash at present.

If the answer is 1 or 2, I wasn't aware of a wallet or address limit, only what I thought were per transaction limit which according to Coinradar is
£0 - 500 no verification
£501 - 2000 verification via ATM machine/website satoshiuk.co.uk
£2000 and above Full verification of person and funds.

I have deposited in excess of £500 but less than £2000 so far.

If the answer is 3 then surely Coinradar should say it's not working and save me a long drive.

Thanks
Eddy