Blockchain - Transaction rejected Max number in single transaction

[herbie136]

Currently using Electrum 2.6.4 and tried to deposit some coins on an exchange to sell - 1st couple of test with small amounts worked ok but when I tried to transfer a larger amount Blockchain.info shows the block as being rejected with the following reason.

Transaction rejected by our node. Reason: The Maximum number of inputs in a single transaction is 250

https://blockchain.info/tx/c97465132872b3acf3b57ff8e6fa26a795ead75fd8ac840789d056edcdcd8d75

My wallet is showing as pending with the transaction with no confirmations so I can't try again as it says I have insufficient funds.

Will my wallet claim the coins back or will they sit in limbo and I've lost them?

Any help and advise welcomed :-)

[shorena]

I found it on my node, cant post the raw TX though because the board says:

The message exceeds the maximum allowed length (64000 characters).

Its a 177kbyte TX.

I put it here -> http://pastebin.com/VDTvHkXq

If you paid a good fee, it will get confirmed.

Here is the decoded version if anyone wants to check on the fees -> http://pastebin.com/APi8Nz9Y

[herbie136]

I paid 0.0008902 transaction fee

So does that mean I just have to wait and it will eventually go through?

Cheers

[shorena]

I paid 0.0008902 transaction fee

So does that mean I just have to wait and it will eventually go through?

Cheers

With that fee? I dont think so. Thats 89k satoshi for 177kbyte of TX data. I dont think any miner will stuff that in a block without a larger reward. Wait 24 hours, restore the wallet from seed (is there another way to rescan for electrum?) and send again with a significant higher fee. I would suggest at least 177*1000*50 satoshi. Might as would round it up to 0.1 BTC.

btw. where did you get the coins from, faucets?

Edit: Just another thing I though about. You can not even hope to have a high enough priority because the TX is significantly over the default space for "free TX" of 50kbyte (meant for several TX, not just a single one). I have no way to check the inputs right now besides writing a script that does so and not enough time to do so, but I suspect that even though you are sending a total of close to 5BTC (with some small change) the majority of inputs are very small. If you have received large (in btc value) TX in the past and a high number of faucet (or otherwise small) payments, ditch the faucet payments[1] and just use the larger inputs. You can do so by using the "send from" feature.

[1] I might buy the wallet with only the small inputs left at a reasonable discount at a later date.

[herbie136]

Betarigs, nicehash, clevermining - plus different exchanges from trading various alt coins. (is that what you meant?)

it nearly 24 hours now - so will wait couple more hours and will try to restore from Seed.

Thanks for your help :-)

[shorena]

Betarigs, nicehash, clevermining - plus different exchanges from trading various alt coins. (is that what you meant?)

it nearly 24 hours now - so will wait couple more hours and will try to restore from Seed.

Thanks for your help :-)

Yeah, mainly a high number of TX with small BTC value. Gotta go now, would appreciate updates how this turned out.

[herbie136]

Just tried opening my existing wallet and also tried recovering to a new wallet - no joy 

Still showing as pending with no confirmation.....

[herbie136]

Thanks to JM on irc 

Switch Electrum server - waited until sync finished and coin back in my wallet.