Being new to Multibit and Bitcoin I sent a transaction with a low fee before I'd even heard of setting your own fees. I assumed that was all handled automatically as in a credit card transaction. This was my first send from my Multibit Wallet. How a huge big red flag warning wasn't built into this software to avoid this issue escapes me. Obviously I have now reset the fee slider so this theoretically won't occur again.
This then resulted in a transaction that seemed to be taking ages, which I'd never seen before, and assumed a wallet error. So I used the Repair Wallet feature and the unconfirmed amount doubled. At this point I started researching the topic and found the appalling truth about the current state of the bitcoin network.
So now I'm thinking I have a double spend with both spends having the default low fee Multibit HD 0.5.1 installs with.
The transaction is:
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/89ba2ff1729a5716697a6c267bc4e491b943614dca5c0b9330a981cc6af096b3I came across:
https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ But never got anything other than 'Submissions are beyond limit. Please try later.' I think I've read double spends are not coped with anyway.
Questions I have:
1. Have I actually done what I think I've done as outlined above?
2. Can I send the remaining balance somewhere else or is my wallet effectively locked?
3. Is there anything I can do about this situation?
4. Why is there a 'Delete request' button greyed out on the payments page? Sounds exactly like what's needed.
5. Should I leave my wallet open as much as possible? Or keep it closed.
I've just tried rebuilding the wallet from scratch but it's just as it was with this unconfirmed transaction still being sent.
Any clues/help would be greatly appreciated.