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April 20, 2013, 10:42:30 PM |
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[1 bitcoin reward offered for solution to this]
Hi! I realize this may be the wrong forum for this post and all but seeing as my account is new I don't have privileges to post anywhere else than here, I'm hoping somebody with the sufficient expertise will find this thread anyways!
So here's my problem;
Early morning 13 apr I tried sending bitcoins to two addresses, I sent it from my bitcoin-qt client version 0.7.1 and I shut down the client shortly afterwards, later I noticed that neither of the transactions went through and confirmed and it also seems they were not sent through any nodes nor do they show up at all on the blockchain. However the bitcoins are not available in my wallet any more and since they were never really sent I'm thinking I should be able to recover them somehow.
Here's the transactions' information from bitcoin-qt:
Status: 0/obekräftade <-- obekräftade is Swedish for unconfirmed Datum: 2013-04-13 03:24 <-- date Till: 1FskeHkysUY1YSmhiwSZV4mwEd4qZ4VEtC <-- receiving address Belasta: -3.965 BTC <-- amount sent Transaktionsavgift: -0.0001 BTC <-- txn fee Nettobelopp: -3.9651 BTC <-- total btc amount sent Transaktions-ID: d2396299d605df2ebb756e2f22c22aa5989dbc9279eee10fc566de936cae55af <-- txn ID
Status: 0/obekräftade Datum: 2013-04-13 03:25 Till: 13bQgatMQVSJEFYiqnKWoM1Fbe9yokp2YD Belasta: -14.885 BTC Transaktionsavgift: -0.0005 BTC Nettobelopp: -14.8855 BTC Transaktions-ID: 39eebfbacb35f29368e1e47c269bd451be7fae2f1d554d1f9e446a8839500801
If you try searching for the transaction IDs on blockchain or blockexplorer, they do not show at all.
I do not have any early backup of this wallet file that still has these coins on it, only recent ones made after this.. Here's what I have tried to get my bitcoins back:
I encountered a thread with somebody having a similar issue, though I can't seem to find it again. A user had him try input "getrawtransaction *insert txn id*" and then "sendrawtransaction *insert output from getrawtransaction*" in the console, and I did this with both transactions and they were immediately rejected with the message "TX rejected (code -22)".
I also installed the latest bitcoin-qt client (0.8.1) and downloaded the blockchain from scratch, moved the wallet-file to the new client but no cigar there. I've also tried running the client with the -rescan parameter and this did not help either.
Now I'm at a total loss of what to do next and that's quite a few bitcoins just floating around.. So I'm issuing a reward of 1 btc to the person that first helps me get this resolved.
I'm really hoping the coins are not lost in cyberspace and I'd appreciate any help with this. I can send the 1 btc reward to a moderator up front to hold if somebody's doubtful I'll pay up.
Thanks for your time
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theBigBadWolf
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April 21, 2013, 12:12:14 AM |
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Hi, This is a bit strange, but most likely tx's just didn't get broadcasted to the network. bitcoin-qt rebroadcasts it once in awhile, so I'd leave it running. You could also have a look in the debug.log in the data directory. The location will depend on operating system More info here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory
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April 21, 2013, 12:15:28 AM |
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- snip - I've also tried running the client with the -rescan parameter and this did not help either. - snip -
You can also force it to rebroadcast by doing --rescan of the blockchain.
That doesn't sound like it's going to be very helpful advice.
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April 21, 2013, 12:16:39 AM |
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Hey gweedo,
I thought --rescan just re-reads the blockchain with respect to the current block and sendrawtransaction $(getrawtransaction $TXID) is what can be used to re-broadcast the tx?
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April 21, 2013, 12:17:38 AM |
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- snip - try input "getrawtransaction *insert txn id*" and then "sendrawtransaction *insert output from getrawtransaction*" in the console, and I did this with both transactions and they were immediately rejected with the message "TX rejected (code -22)". - snip -
- snip - bitcoin-qt rebroadcasts it once in awhile, so I'd leave it running. - snip -
From what the OP has said, I suspect that the client is unable to send these transactions for some reason. It probably wouldn't hurt to leave it running for a couple of hours, but I suspect more help than that is going to be needed.
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April 21, 2013, 12:19:46 AM |
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backup your wallet, Load up pywallet, delete the transactions from your wallet
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DannyHamilton
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April 21, 2013, 12:23:21 AM |
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Depending on your technical skill, you could try looking into pywallet and seeing if you can remove the offending transactions from your wallet with that.
You could also try creating a new wallet and importing all the private keys from your old wallet into the new wallet.
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April 21, 2013, 12:23:53 AM |
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I was always under the impression that wallet.dat stored private keys and blockchain was where the tx log resided
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April 21, 2013, 12:24:54 AM |
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I was always under the impression that wallet.dat stored private keys and blockchain was where the tx log resided
wallet.dat also stores the transactions that your wallet sent which haven't yet made it into the blockchain.
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April 21, 2013, 12:27:29 AM |
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I was always under the impression that wallet.dat stored private keys and blockchain was where the tx log resided
wallet.dat also stores the transactions that your wallet sent which haven't yet made it into the blockchain. Learning something new everyday. I think this must be a new feature. Last client I used was 0.3.14. This is going to be interesting to catch up with all the development
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April 24, 2013, 08:35:34 PM |
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backup your wallet, Load up pywallet, delete the transactions from your wallet
Depending on your technical skill, you could try looking into pywallet and seeing if you can remove the offending transactions from your wallet with that.
You could also try creating a new wallet and importing all the private keys from your old wallet into the new wallet.
I did try and remove those 2 particular transactions with pywallet and did a -rescan but it did not work, however when I deleted all of the transactions in the wallet and redownloaded the entire blockchain, voilà, it worked! I'll split the promised 1 bitcoin between you guys, post your addresses here and I'll have it sent ASAP. Thanks for helping me out guys, you're lifesavers ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
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April 24, 2013, 08:49:29 PM |
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- snip - I'll split the promised 1 bitcoin between you guys, post your addresses here and I'll have it sent ASAP. Thanks for helping me out guys, you're lifesavers ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) Send my share to Jackjack: 19QkqAza7BHFTuoz9N8UQkryP4E9jHo4N3 It's his pywallet that saved the day (and does so repeatedly for so many people). We need to make sure we provide enough incentive for him to keep it up to date and usable.
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April 24, 2013, 11:37:00 PM |
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address is in signature
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April 24, 2013, 11:40:21 PM |
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I love stories with a happy ending.
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April 25, 2013, 08:04:39 AM |
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- snip - I'll split the promised 1 bitcoin between you guys, post your addresses here and I'll have it sent ASAP. Thanks for helping me out guys, you're lifesavers ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) Send my share to Jackjack: 19QkqAza7BHFTuoz9N8UQkryP4E9jHo4N3 It's his pywallet that saved the day (and does so repeatedly for so many people). We need to make sure we provide enough incentive for him to keep it up to date and usable. Thanks, that's very gentle and respectable and I totally agree with you. At these exchange rates, that's quite a few bitcoins to lose and having a semi easy-to-use tool like this available when crap go haywire is fabulous ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) jackjack and drakahn got their 0.5 coinz, thanks once again. This was a very pleasant first experience of the forum ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) Love your Tardis btw, Danny. lol
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