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November 05, 2015, 04:10:22 AM
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Hi,

Apologies if this should be obvious, but I could really do with some help.

Recently I decided I wanted to try using armory wallet instead of electrum which I had been using.

I sent a transaction to an address from the armoury wallet but naively didn't realise that I was nowhere near finishing downloading bitcoin core (3 days now, up to 94%)

To try and get round this, yesterday I used the the private key from the armory address and the sweep private key function in electrum.

This appeared to work fine, however it has been over a day now with no confs on the transaction ( I fear it was not sent with sufficient fee)

This is the transaction
https://blockchain.info/tx/55381b049ea314ebb94cf84f8506cbe48bcefe70b39153d704a6154af90289c7

Is there anything I can do now to get this transaction confrmed?

Thanks in Advance
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November 05, 2015, 06:05:20 AM
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Nevermind,  I managed to get around it by creating another transaction through https://coinb.in as a double spend with a transaction fee of 0.001 and it got confirmed quickly. Surprised I was actually able to work out how to do it (first time I've created a transaction, verified signed and broadcast it manually)  Smiley
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November 05, 2015, 04:54:49 PM
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I am glad that you were able to get you tx confirmed, however it is generally a good idea to use a "seeded" wallet (eg a wallet with a seed as opposed to a collection of private keys) because all you need to backup your wallet is the seed and it will remain backed up regardless of how many addresses you use
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November 07, 2015, 06:39:27 AM
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. 

My armory wallet was/is seed based but after 3+ days it had still not synced and finished downloading the blockchain.

I (rather naively I admit) had sent funds to it expecting it to sync much faster.

This was why I used the sweep private key option in this case. 

Can you use a seed created say by armoury with another wallet like electrum?

Thanks again for you reply
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