Help! A payment is not processing on the network! Have I lost that money?

[BurtW]

Well I have calmed down a bit as checking the balances of the two addresses in that wallet on blockchain.info show the correct balance.  But the Multibit client is all WACKED.

 I am thinking of just sweeping those two address into another wallet. Something has got to be wrong with this multibit wallet!

I am not a multibit expert so I do not know how long a blockchain reset will take on multibit.  It may take a long time.  Let's give it a chance to recover from the reset and see what happens next.

Any multibit user/expert here who can tell us how long a blockchain reset will take?

[manoamano]

No, you never lost your money.
It will either proceed, or come back

[BurtW]

Transaction may  take  4 day but  you can still cancelit and waite 24 hours before sending that transaction again.
You can also addin a fee before sending the tranaction.

Welcome to Bitcoin with your very first post.

[darkshadowgirl]

You have to wait.
Transactions are not instant.

Transactions are instant. Confirmations aren't 

If the transaction wasn't sent with a miner's fee, it'll take a really long time for it to be added to a block.

We have never seen the transaction in question since it never got transmitted so we do not know what fee would have been added had it been transmitted.

Yeah I don't think it was ever sent.  The Multibit wallet was all screwed up. When I reset the Blockchain and transactions in Multibit it lost 4 BTC from the balance and that pending transaction disappeared. BUT Blockchain.info had the full correct balance recorded in my addresses including the balance of that pending transaction! I just swept the private key for the screwed up multibit addresses and got all my money back  and in one place! Phew...


I still don't understand how Multibit screwed up so bad.  I think I need another wallet client. I have lost trust in Multibit now.

Anyone have any suggestions for a more reliable wallet client?

[BurtW]

I use the standard bitcoin-qt and it works for me - be sure to encrypt it.  For web I use blockchain.info - be sure to use a unique very good password, for my phone I use the android bitcoin client - don't lose your phone.  While I am at it here, I use bitfinex for trading - don't trade on margin unless you really know what you are doing.

[zeppelined]

Will the transaction be much faster if i use the wallet on the blockchain or any online wallet compaired to  the  QT wallet on my computer?

I thought the  transfer's are instant and secure. (i am still learing)

[pand70]

You have to wait.
Transactions are not instant.

Transactions are instant. Confirmations aren't 

If the transaction wasn't sent with a miner's fee, it'll take a really long time for it to be added to a block.

To be added to a block. Not to be relayed + show up in the wallet. The second is instant.

[darkshadowgirl]

I found out what was happening.


https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_support_sentBitcoinFromMultibitButTheyAreStuck.html

[BurtW]

I found out what was happening.


https://multibit.org/en/help/v0.5/help_support_sentBitcoinFromMultibitButTheyAreStuck.html

Excellent.