Hi all,
I am getting a bot confused. I have two btc transactions which were showing up on blockchain.info as being unconfirmed.
So I waited. After one of the transactions was 1 day old and the second transaction (sent to another address) was 2 days old, both of these transactions dossappeared from blockchain.info.
This only means that blockchain.info has decided not to show you the transactions anymore. Blockchain.info is not in control of bitcoin. There is nothing official about their block explorer. The transaction still exists and can still be confirmed if a miner decides to confirm it. The only way to make it impossible for a valid transactionto be confirmed is to get a replacement transaction confirmed that spends the same inputs.
To confuse me further, the source wallet has been used successfully to transfer btc in the past.
Then your wallet probably included a larger fee that time, or the fee requirements weren't as high.
So now I am wondering, where for art thy bitcoins?
Same place they always were. Bitcoins are nothing more than a record in THE BLOCKCHAIN. If there is no new confirmed record in the blockchain, then the old record is still confirmed and unspent.
Has the transactions been canned?
That depends on what you mean by "canned".
Some nodes (including blockchain.info) have decided to stop keeping track of the unconfirmed transaction. Any node can re-broadcast it if they want to, and any miner that hasn't decided to stop keeping track of the transaction can still confirm it.
If so how long would it be before my bitcoins arrive back in their source wallet?
They never left. Until the unconfirmed transaction is confirmed, your wallet still has the ability to control the bitcoins. If your wallet doesn't show that, then you may need to figure out how to better use the wallet software, or you may need to start using a new wallet program.
