Dont worry if you the btc to expired your btc will get back to your account just like mine but too long time. mine is 5 days before my btc came back... wait for 5 or 7 days if your btc will not came back just update here and we will help you...
Are you sure about this?
If you send BTC to an existing address, i don't think it'll just come back because the addy is shown as expired.
My guess about this situation would be:
- you sent BTC to an existing address but didn't add sufficient fees. The transaction wasn't included in a block because no fees were added. You stopped transmitting the transaction, and the network forgot about it (so the BTC ended up in your overview again)
- you sent BTC to your own "expired" addy (not really expired, but it might give the impression of being expired when you're new to electrum). You didn't add enough fees, so it took 5 days to be included in a block and was shown under your own overview
I could be wrong about this, i'm only learning myself, but i guess that might explain the situation?
It would only come back and not be accepted by majority of the miners if its a "bad" tx (insufficient fee, dust outputs, etc.). The case he describes is when the network rejects your tx and "forgets" it.
And your second case...:
- you sent BTC to your own "expired" addy (not really expired, but it might give the impression of being expired when you're new to electrum). You didn't add enough fees, so it took 5 days to be included in a block and was shown under your own overview
...would show him at least the balance (which would give the impression it "came back immediately" as he sent it to himself).
So i think he sent it to somebody else, then it got rejected by network and came back. I had a similar situation. Took 2-3 days.