Unconfirmed Transaction (send). How to Return to Wallet?

[migson51]

Hey Guys,

I have a similar problem. Due to my ignorance, I send coins to an adress without sufficient miners fee. My Multibit wallet classic only supported 0.0001 BTC and I didn't know better. Now I'm waiting for almost a week now. This is the block chain info: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/d22c630c662a0506fb8420723c15c9d1926fa34ec33e68af4583a10a75b0cdc5


Is there anyone that can help me. I thank you in advance! Kind regards, Miguel

[lady Royal]

Hey Guys,

I have a similar problem. Due to my ignorance, I send coins to an adress without sufficient miners fee. My Multibit wallet classic only supported 0.0001 BTC and I didn't know better. Now I'm waiting for almost a week now. This is the block chain info: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/d22c630c662a0506fb8420723c15c9d1926fa34ec33e68af4583a10a75b0cdc5


Is there anyone that can help me. I thank you in advance! Kind regards, Miguel

Please next time try to use higher fee at least 450 satoshis/byte. You can try to add your transaction in ViaBtc accelarator. They add 100 transactions every hour but it get filled very quickly. The time ViaBtc using is UTC. So, Whenever the hour clicks try to add your transaction. Here is the link good luck.

Code:

https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/

If you are unable to add then email them it is paid service.

[migson51]

Thank you very much Lady Royal,

This worked totally!!

Kind regards,

Miguel

[jotaro]

hello i have this transaction unconfirmed cause low transaction fee.

can i have it back on my wallet?
how many days need to confirm or cancel the transaction?

i lose my money?

the tx id are:
221980229e58bdd1a3d9ec3cf76d0b727cc5cab750a75f286fdd659d1ab38641
4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d

thank u

[HCP]

hello i have this transaction unconfirmed cause low transaction fee.

can i have it back on my wallet?
how many days need to confirm or cancel the transaction?

If it stays unconfirmed long enough... maybe up to 2 weeks to fully drop, assuming your wallet is not rebroadcasting the transaction. Then, effectively, the coins will "return" to your wallet.

With a fee that low... and currently 100,000+ unconfirmed transactions... it will take days if not weeks before your transaction is confirmed.

i lose my money?

No. Don't worry, the transaction will confirm or the coins will come back... it could just take a long time.


Also, you should stop using MultiBit as it is no longer developed or supported... and it is very old and outdated and has a lot of potentially disastrous bugs. Please read: https://www.multibit.org and follow the link to the Blog post explaining your options.

I would recommend that you seriously consider migrating to Electrum (https://electrum.org/#download)

the tx id are:
221980229e58bdd1a3d9ec3cf76d0b727cc5cab750a75f286fdd659d1ab38641
4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d

Your fees are at least 10 sats/byte, so you should be able to use ViaBTC Transaction accelerator... and/or confirmtx.com. Start with this one first: 4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d

Once it is confirmed, then try accelerating the other transaction.


EDIT: Ok... so I accelerated 4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d and it now has been confirmed... I'll try and accelerate your other one when I get a chance

you're welcome


EDIT2: and now 221980229e58bdd1a3d9ec3cf76d0b727cc5cab750a75f286fdd659d1ab38641 is accelerated... it should pick up a confirmation in an hour or 3

aaaaaaannnnnnnnnnd Confirmed!

[eden043043]

1cffa813d8e71925d1c97fb059e92b16f1d95f5a89c05597bb4ade86efcff104

This the hash of my tx. I m a receiver from a withdrawal of an online wallet. Been 9 days. Unconfirmed parents. Zero confirmation. Wad can I do. Need it desperately.

[HCP]

Your transaction is at the end of a VERY long chain of unconfirmed transactions... I gave up counting after I got to about 25-30

I'm not sure where you received these coins from, but whatever "online wallet" it was is pretty shit. Instead of batching up withdrawals and sending them all in one hit, they simply use previously unconfirmed outputs and to top it off... the average fee they seem to have used is about 80-90 sats/byte   When recommmended fees have been 500+ for like two weeks!

It is going to take a LONG time for that transaction to confirm... and unless you feel like doing a CPFP to cover every single one of those unconfirmed transactions (which is likely to cost you something like 1 BTC in fees ) then there is precisely ZERO you can do to get that transaction confirmed.

Seriously consider NEVER using that online service again... it is broken.

[eden043043]

Thks for reply
May i know how long does it take for blockchain to reject the tx n to return the  btc to sender?
Becos the online wallet replied saying that if is rejected by blockchain,i can apply for withdrawal again.

[HCP]

It could be anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks (or longer)... there is not set time for any node to drop a transaction from it's mempool... the default used to be 3 days (72 hours)... this was changed from around Bitcoin Core v13 or v14 to 14 days I believe... however, node owners are free to choose any value they like.

In addition, if the wallet (or anyone else) keeps rebroadcasting the transactions, theoretically, the transaction might never disappear.

If you're in contact with the online wallet people... tell them to start sending transactions with proper fees

[AzzAz]

Hi people
I have unconfirmed transaction from Core 14.0 for 30+ days. Low fee ( bad counting zeroes ).
3b7e650b41f8a156a222d788268a83eb7a1c8311cf563bbf246f798bf02d094c
Any help? How can I get it dropped or through (I was sending it to myself) ?

[HCP]

Your transaction is not showing on ANY blockexplorers that I can see (aside from chain.so)... so it looks like the transaction has been dropped by the majority of nodes. If this is the case, then you should be able to create a new transaction.

Can you abandon the transaction? If that doesn't work, try "-walletbroadcast=0"... if you still can't abandon the transaction...

Then you may need to try the "-zapwallettxes, -rescan" method of removing the transaction from your wallet (-zapwallettxes will actually remove ALL txes from your wallet, so I'd suggest taking a backup of your wallet.dat first should you run into any issues with zapwallet and rescan)

[Degolep]

Yesterday I made a transaction and I got this error: Waiting for feedback about this transaction from the Bitcoin network

Now I have this situation:



And blockchain gives as there is no transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4cf13141498e7a31e769329323bb741df974c5afdedac7f46569930b3b432e04

What to do?

[HCP]

Were you trying to send from MultiBit Classic or MultiBit HD?

In any case, you should really read this: https://multibit.org/blog/2017/07/26/multibit-shutdown.html

And STOP USING MULTIBIT! It is old, outdated, full of bugs and there is no more development or support! Follow the YouTube videos to learn how to migrate your wallet to Electrum (https://electrum.org/#download).

Just make sure you get Electrum v3.0.5!

[Degolep]

MultibitHD. I didn't know it wasnt supported anymore, I'm back in business after 4 years.

[Degolep]

Ok I've recovered my transaction. But is this for real 20$ fee?

[HCP]

Unfortunately yes... Bitcoin fees have gone through the roof   The Bitcoin ecosystem is a LOT different to 4 years ago... long gone are the days of sending transactions for 1c

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ and https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx are both showing 500+ sats/byte...  Seems the number of unconfirmed transactions is still around 40,000+... which is down from the 100,000+ a week or two ago... but the "size" of the mempool is relatively stable at 120-130 megabytes... seems people are trying to push very large transactions through!

Transaction Count: https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-count?timespan=30days
Data Size: https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=30days

[AzzAz]

Your transaction is not showing on ANY blockexplorers that I can see (aside from chain.so)... so it looks like the transaction has been dropped by the majority of nodes. If this is the case, then you should be able to create a new transaction.

Can you abandon the transaction? If that doesn't work, try "-walletbroadcast=0"... if you still can't abandon the transaction...

Then you may need to try the "-zapwallettxes, -rescan" method of removing the transaction from your wallet (-zapwallettxes will actually remove ALL txes from your wallet, so I'd suggest taking a backup of your wallet.dat first should you run into any issues with zapwallet and rescan)

Thanks for reply!
How to abandon the transaction ( now I want to try one by one ) ?
Is it ok to use wallet.dat on a new wallet?

[HCP]

No, wallet.dat is ONLY useful for Bitcoin Core (Bitcoin-QT)... as far as I'm aware, no other wallet will be able to read/write to wallet.dat without causing issues.

To abandon the transaction, you may need to shutdown Bitcoin Core, restart it using the "-walletbroadcast=0" option... and then you should be able to right click the transaction and select "abandon transaction" from the popup menu. Shutdown, and restart Bitcoin Core WITHOUT the walletbroadcast option

[AzzAz]

No, wallet.dat is ONLY useful for Bitcoin Core (Bitcoin-QT)... as far as I'm aware, no other wallet will be able to read/write to wallet.dat without causing issues.

To abandon the transaction, you may need to shutdown Bitcoin Core, restart it using the "-walletbroadcast=0" option... and then you should be able to right click the transaction and select "abandon transaction" from the popup menu. Shutdown, and restart Bitcoin Core WITHOUT the walletbroadcast option

That did the job! Just had to: "shutdown Bitcoin Core, restart it from command prompt using the "-walletbroadcast=0" option...then right click the transaction and select "abandon transaction" from the popup menu. Shutdown, and restart Bitcoin Core WITHOUT the walletbroadcast option"
Those miners are killing Bitcoin. Now I am not sure what fee to put, thinking to exchange all my BTC to ETH or DASH or something...
Thank You very much!
edit: strange, after wallet restart I saw my btc back. closed wallet. started again after hour and same transaction with low fee was on again!
So I repeated same procedure  and now am waiting it to be dropped from mempool (again) 

[HCP]

Those miners are killing Bitcoin.

I know everyone likes to vilify the miners and make them the "Bad Guys"™ but it is other BTC users driving up the fees, specifically the ones willing to pay more than you to get their transaction confirmed. The miners just take the highest fees on offer, can't blame them really...

if someone offered you $10 to do a job, and someone else offered $100 which would you take?