BTC transaction pending, not confirmed, not found on blockchain:Multibit Classic

[mjtbtc]

Hi Guys,

I just found an old bitcoin wallet which has 3.75 coins in it, made on Multibit 5.18. I am now using 5.19 - Multibit Classic (HD screwed me over with failing passwords bug, so I don't go there). Result! I thought, but I have tried to send 2 transactions, one for 1.1btc and one for 0.18 btc to my exchange, my passwords are all correct and working and the transaction says pending. In multbit classic, this is the grey "triangle". The first transaction has been like this for a whole day. I did 0.0005 btc transaction fee, the most you can do in Multibit classic, works out at about $2, not great but should be ok. I did the same fee on the second transaction, which is stuck in the same state. The wallet was last used early 2016 and started in 2014, so the transactions on it go back quite a long way - I don't know if this makes a difference to the byte size of the transaction, hence the fee issue. I've reset the block chain transactions etc, to no avail.

I've read on Multibit that a square or triangle means the transaction is not broadcast to a bitcoind peer, could it be something to do with now running this off windows 10? Or a firewall thing? I need to get these coins off and sold, but I can't seem to make a transaction / get it to Blockchain. Worse still, if its not been broadcast, it seems to have knocked the amounts I tried to send off of my balance - have these been lost?

Has anyone got any ideas on what is going on, how I can free the coin, as it were. I really need these funds!

thanks, MJT

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[HI-TEC99]

Search for the addresses from your multibit wallet in these block explorers. If none of the block explorers show they recently sent coins then your transactions probably weren't broadcast.

https://blockchain.info/

https://live.blockcypher.com/

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC

If your transactions show as unconfirmed in those block explorers then try submitting the transaction IDs to this website exactly on the hour. If that website says successful then the viabtc mining pool will confirm your transactions in the next block it mines.

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

If your transactions weren't broadcast I suggest switching from using multibit classic to using electrum. Electrum can pay high enough fees to get fast confirmations.

There's instructions explaining how to switch to electrum without moving your coins at this link.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1922317.msg19181835#msg19181835

I would advise you not to use multibit classic because the network has so many unconfirmed transactions that multibi's highest fee isn't enough to get fast confirmations.