Help Needed Regarding Electrum

[stardog1993]

Bitcoin was showing up as unconfirmed so I used replace-by-fee to try and speed the process up however after doing this my balance is now showing zero. Does anyone know how to correct this? Thanks in advance!

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[MintDice]

This post might be of assistance: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/51847/low-fee-electrum-wallet-transaction-disappeared-now-when-i-increase-the-fee-it

The first transaction was likely unconfirmed and the following one might have been seen as a double spent attempt.

[pooya87]

you need to provide more information!
start with how exactly did you use "used replace-by-fee"?
when we say RBF you need to have set it already on your transaction before sending it, if you haven't already then you can not use RBF anymore. and if you have then using it is as simple as going to your history tab and using the bump fee option by right clicking on the unconfirmed transaction to increase its fee

are you sure you used RBF and not create a new transaction and send bitcoin twice?

when you say your balance is zero now, how much should it have been?
when you increase your fee you use your other funds to cover the fees. if you had a huge transaction but a small leftover in your wallet and increased the fee a lot you might have spent all of it. or it is possible that you had a small amount and after increasing the fee your leftover was smaller than dust limit so it was spent as fee also.

[stardog1993]

you need to provide more information!
start with how exactly did you use "used replace-by-fee"?
when we say RBF you need to have set it already on your transaction before sending it, if you haven't already then you can not use RBF anymore. and if you have then using it is as simple as going to your history tab and using the bump fee option by right clicking on the unconfirmed transaction to increase its fee

are you sure you used RBF and not create a new transaction and send bitcoin twice?

when you say your balance is zero now, how much should it have been?
when you increase your fee you use your other funds to cover the fees. if you had a huge transaction but a small leftover in your wallet and increased the fee a lot you might have spent all of it. or it is possible that you had a small amount and after increasing the fee your leftover was smaller than dust limit so it was spent as fee also.

Okay no problem! I used the RBF function as you have mentioned, I right clicked on the transaction then replace-by-fee and dragged the fee tool to max, would this have spent the full amount? The balance had been showing around 80 euro worth of btc which was 'Unconfirmed'. The balance had been zero prior to this. I don't think I created a new transaction however after looking on Blockcypher it says "This transaction had an attempted double-spent but was still confirmed". I have sent the transaction to ViaBTC accelerator as mentioned in the post above. Very grateful for the help!

[bob123]

I don't think I created a new transaction however after looking on Blockcypher it says "This transaction had an attempted double-spent but was still confirmed". I have sent the transaction to ViaBTC accelerator as mentioned in the post above. Very grateful for the help!

Which one did confirm? The first one?
In this case, the second one should get dropped from the mempool. Is it viewable in a block explorer?

Mind giving us both transaction id's ?

[bob123]

53ea3fa68bcf523b666ae674dad61f392df7a2bf0ef2d33230228546661eb52d 1st Transaction

a4612a1d1d35c0f79f0053291baef5d81e0a21114255d38cb0feee70afe0eda3 2nd Transaction

It was the second transaction confirmed, I think.

Both are confirmed.


The first transaction has sent ~0.0128 BTC to address 1PL3KVKfTonsPBPPD6rfmpSeZ2STZKUR65 (and to 5 other addresses, did you do a 'pay-to-many' transaction ? )

The second transaction has used this input from above to send it to the address 1KtiqmtVBcL7BDmMMimQD5D9kcviHQChQu


The second transaction is NOT a Replace-by-fee TX.
It may be a Child-pays-for-Parent (if the 1st one was unconfirmed when sending the second one).
Do you recognize the address 1KtiqmtVBcL7BDmMMimQD5D9kcviHQChQu ? Is it yours ?

What was the actual transaction you wanted to send, ~0.128 BTC to 1KtiqmtVBcL7BDmMMimQD5D9kcviHQChQu ??

[Abdussamad]

the a4 transaction is unrelated to your wallet. it is one of the recipients of the first transaction spending their bitcoins.

most likely when you rbfed to the max you spent your whole balance. another possibility is that you have a 2fa wallet and you sent fees to trusted coin but i don't see any such outputs in the 53e transaction so perhaps it happened in another transaction. was there another transaction from your wallet? you can find them all on the history tab.