Thanks for all of your responses....obviously compromised
 

I once had a friend on this forum, or this platform rather,  that lost 500,000 BTC from a wallet hack....this was in 2011. 



 

My friend sent me some bitcoin.  On Jan 16th he showed me the transaction receipt. attached here. also my 24 hour electrum btc address is here attached. 

On my end I have seen nothing other than a strange credit of .006 bitcoin and then the sending of the same .006 bitcoin. wtf....noone did this.

Im not sure where to start this recovery, any help appreciated   

version 4.09 on windows 7

FYI...I was an original beta tester of bitcoin , simple machines forum, and was initially into it at .14 cents, went through the mt.gox debacle etc until now.   if that counts for anything....

heres the info, wheres the BTC?  seems stuck in limbo with no transaction notice on my side....nowhere to go in an increase the fees...because no notice of pending transaction.

Thank you for the supportive information. 

I will carry out as you have instructed. 

I checked the transaction, it was only [10 sat/byte, 42.20mb]

I increased it to [rbf, 50.3 sat/b, .98mb]

i hope this gets in moving

In 4.09 is there a way to RBF the transaction to get it unstuck?

More than four days ago I paid a vendor with BTC from my electrum wallet 4.09.   

When it came to the fees slider I slide it around, hit send, it said it was not enough.  Put the slider to the middle and hit send and it said it sent.

Now three days later there are no confirmations and Im looking for what might be going on and determined where is the BTC? 

is the confirmation network bogged down?

any help would be greatly appreciated. 

ok , Ill reword my argument....

price is based on scarcity, thats a law of economics,  there is scarcity at play (1 million),
and that creates large values on few items such as $40k BTC.

most people are scared off of $40,000 BTC / 1 million coins vs. $40.00 per mBTC unit at 1 billion, makes it more accessible,  its just a matter of Psychology,  the "float" has to increase to make it accessible and psychologically dumb enough , and bite size enough, for wide adoption and investment.

if the psychological price per "entry point" is not lowered it will remain out of the scope and reality of the average person. 

so,  do we want their money in the liquidity pool?  why wouldnt we? more liquidity, more demand, more market. 

Its all psychology, just like the mind F### of modern politics. 

Think about this, 
by listing BTC only in mBTC on every exchange
you could effective increase the float 1000 fold,
changing the effective float from 1 million to 1 billion
it also effectively acts like a stock split
and allows more players in the market
at smaller increments, which creates more demand over larger scale. 

I was on the original development forum and own BTC from .14cent
helped design the bitcoin symbol in design discussions and other development tasks.

I PETITION ALL OF YOU TO PASS THIS ALONG TO THE EXCHANGES AND MAKE IT HAPPEN, YOU WONT BE SORRY.