Don't drink and bitcoin. (help needed - Solved)

[dhenson]

Went for sushi last night and had one too many saki bombs. Ended up telling a friend about AMC shares.  He gave me some cash so I redeemed some cold wallets I had encrypted in zipped pdf's on my phone and used the blockchain app to fund my we exchange account.  Only problem, somehow I didn't include a fee.

If any miner decides to process my 19.99 + .0005 btc transaction, the next round is on me!

Edit... Offering .25 btc reward for suggestion that actually lets me recover my 19.99 btc.

[dhenson]

Nobody has a similar drunken bitcoin experience?

Maybe I should seek help.

[Kazimir]

I've done plenty of transactions with 0.00005 BTC fees (i.e. one tenth of yours) and they all came through just fine.

[RodeoX]

Even without a fee I think it will go through. But it may take a while.

[dhenson]

I didn't include a fee, that's the problem.  The transaction has two outputs, one of which is under .01.

https://blockchain.info/tx/49bc932d55dc7aa902346f04cb1f2e9d750bcabed1e29d6c48d0baaf1413e20f?show_adv=false

When I originally sent the transaction, it complained about not having enough funds as I only had the two imported wallets as a balance.  I then adjusted my amount to accommodate a .0005 fee and it ended up sending without a fee and sent the change back to the wallet.  If I had just left the full 19.99 as the amount and sent without a transaction I would have been fine.

It's the change that is making this such a problem.  At this point, I'd be happy to lose the change if the transaction would just clear lol.

[dhenson]

Thanks.

I'm not worried that I'll lose the money.  The kicker is that I was trying to pick up some more AMC shares at .0005.

It was really good sushi/saki however so it might have been worth it.

[dhenson]

So it's been a couple days and the transaction is no closer to clearing than before.  In fact, Blockchain.info is showing that it  has 0% propagation.

https://blockchain.info/tx/49bc932d55dc7aa902346f04cb1f2e9d750bcabed1e29d6c48d0baaf1413e20f?show_adv=true

I found the following tool: http://blockchain.info/pushtx

I had assumed the 49b.....e20f was the input the tool needed (raw hex of the transaction?) but I'm getting an error.

Any words of wisdom to help me get this transaction committed?

[Eri]

What you need to do is resend the transaction. There are a few ways to do it so its something you should look into yourself since i dont know how to do it(i never needed to)

Dont quote me on this, i read this in passing. (make a backup first) i think you can either reload your wallet, or reload a recent version and resend the transaction (with a fee) and it should go through just fine.

If the transaction is dead then by resending the same one, it should use the same inputs. if it gets accepted by the network, even if the old one does eventually get seen by someone it will be ignored as a double spend since you already spent the money.


Maybe if someone else knows for sure they can comment on this.

[dhenson]

My current plan is to import my blockchain.info private key into my bitcoin-qt client.  I'll then use pywallet to delete the 0 confirm transactions and then i'll run bitcoin with the --rescan switch.

I'm posting it here to save myself .25 btc reward in case it works and someone else suggests it lol

Eri, the problem with your suggestion is that blockchain.info doesn't offer the ability to do that.  (the balance is gone so I can't resend the transaction)

[dhenson]

The above worked.

For those that stumble upon this issue and have had a similar problem.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=35214.0

I used the new Paper Wallet feature of blockchain.info to get my private key, then followed the above instructions.