no confirmations + negative qt wallet balance

[bamsterdam]

Hello community,

Last week I visited a friend who had send some btc to kraken but added not enough fee it was like 10000 satosish on a 2.5 btc transaction. About two weeks have passed and still no confirmations.

The strange thing was(for me though) when I looked at his qt wallet the transaction history didnt add up with the amount of btc that was in his wallet

I thought this was not possible. He had spend more then he received.

The week before this last transaction he told me that he tried to sell some btc via bitonic (a dutch trustworthy platform) and he didnt add fee at all so also no confirmations on his transaction. Eventually bitonic send him the btc back but he said he had .5 btc more in his wallet then before. I couldnt explain it to him other that he was mistaking. When I also looked at his transaction history the right amount was send back.

But still when you add up all his withdraws and deposits he should have a negative balance Is this possible?

could this be related to issue that his transaction still isn't confirmed?

If not what can we do to make the wallet forget about the transaction so he can send it again with higher fee?

Thank you in advance

[unholycactus]

Confirmed funds in this case will have a negative balance.

If you want to resend the transaction with a higher fee, you have to stop your wallet from rebroadcasting it and wait for the transaction to be rejected.

[bamsterdam]

thanks for your reply.

Sorry what I mend is that if you add up all his deposits he should have like 5 btc in his wallet but he have withdrawn 7 in total. So he has 2 btc more withdrawn from the wallet then was deposited. Is this possible?

I will tell him to let the wallet open so it will be broadcasted every 30 min, if that wont work i will try to follow the guide to resend it with extra fee. Seems a bit tricky though so I hope that it will be sufficient to just leave the wallet open

Thanks!