Sent BTC without paying a fee

[alanbrockall]

Hi all I am relatively new to bitcoin and sent 0.1 bitcoins without paying a fee. I just assumed that the fee is added automatically. Anyway it's been 15 hours and  is still unspent with zero confirmations.
https://blockchain.info/address/18AB3AQw55DsHGwBGfVwJTGuTH98tCD6H

Will this ever be confirmed or returned to my wallet. Or lost forever?
Thanks

[hilariousandco]

It'll either eventually confirm or be returned so just have patience.

[HeroCat]

I think BTC transfer without any fee will finish after a few days 

[DimensionZ]

Can you even send a tx without a fee? I thought you need a minimal fee to send bitcoins on the network?

[BruceLee007]

Can you even send a tx without a fee? I thought you need a minimal fee to send bitcoins on the network?

yes you can do that though the confirmation of the transaction can take up to a few days i think its better to include the fee as then the transaction gets confirmed as soon as the next block appears on the blockchain

[bitsmichel]

Will this ever be confirmed or returned to my wallet. Or lost forever?
Thanks

It will be confirmed but may take a while.

[Amph]

Will this ever be confirmed or returned to my wallet. Or lost forever?
Thanks

It will be confirmed but may take a while.

it depend the last two time i did it, it took me only two hours, not a big deal, if this will be the case in the future i'll use more the no-fee transaction

[apriloni]

Can you even send a tx without a fee? I thought you need a minimal fee to send bitcoins on the network?

I sent bitcoin without a fee a few months ago. That transaction was from very old coins, so having very high priority.

[Anon39]

to "unlock" these bitcoins you have two options:

1. double spend the transaction (possible only if you have the private key of the transaction's sending address)

2. spend the unconfirmed output with a big fee and hope that a miner will confirm both the transactions (it's impossible to confirm the transaction with the big fee without confirming the previous zero fee transaction)
(I advice using at least 0.0005 btc)

or you can just wait a couple days, if no miner will confirm the tx it probably will be removed like it never existed.

[universe_]

it seems that you will have to wait for a long time

[helloeverybody]

I'm surprised you never sent a fee.  The last few wallets I have had a fee already set up.

[Kingno.1]

I saw your transaction and it is still showing unconfirmed!!!!
Really surprised that why did you sent that transaction without paying any fee.

[Deepcleen]

For the low priority coins, if you want to send them, you have to pay a fee. Otherwise these pools will not include them.

[Taratoor]

xapo wallet not cut transaction fees
its safe and most securable

[extrabyte]

It has been market as high priority but seems that today or tomorrow the funds will be sent back to the sender.

[techmanuk]

I made the same kind of mistake a while back and had to wait 3 days.

Another instance is when I paid a fee of about 12,000 Satoshis on Friday and even that took 7 hours to get the 3 confirmations I needed.

Should go through eventually, or they will be refunded.

[Velkro]

I think BTC transfer without any fee will finish after a few days 

couple days +/- couple days
It can be long wait, but hey, you didn't pay any fee thats good side

[LFC_Bitcoin]

It'll either eventually confirm or be returned so just have patience.

This.

It's a bit of a major fail sending bitcoin's without including a fee. The people who ensure the upkeep of the network need to be paid.

I wouldn't expect them to work for free, just include the minimum fee next time please.

Your transaction will be very low priority so it'll either get confirmed or sent back to you, it may take days though.

[radhwane]

it take some days to confirm or returned to your wallet like what happen with me once 
i send some BTC to multip address but they returned to me after few days and i resend with fees i got confirmed

[Hellacopter]

Usually it takes some time (may be few days) to get confirmed, otherwise you will receive back this amount normally
But it's not advised to send bitcoin without the transaction fee that's complicate the transaction and make it lower