I think I've made a terrible mistake!! :(

[Leahhhh]

I imported my coins from my paper wallet into my blockchain wallet & immediately tried to transfer some of them to another person for sale and some to a new paper wallet. I did this possibly before there were any confirmations of the original transfer & now after 2 hours the BTC still haven't been confirmed in my new paper wallet. What will happen? Have I lost them or will they eventually come back to my Blockchain wallet? Is there anything I can do?

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[GSpgh]

Has the first original transfer been confirmed by now or not? Would you be able to share the TX IDs? Don't do this if this can affect your privacy though.

Your coins will not disappear, just stay calm and don't throw away any paper wallets. If transactions are not confirmed (e.g. fees too low) the funds will return to your wallet, but I'm not sure how long it takes for that to happen in the Blockchain wallet.

[Leahhhh]

The original transfer from my paper wallet to my Blockchain account now has 6 confirmations but may not have had any or maybe just one when I tried to move the coins on to other addresses. What normally happens if a person does this? I hope you're right about them not disappearing....I too read online that they will come back to the Blockchain account.

[Leahhhh]

When I look into it in my Blockchain account, it says Output is unspent and has no children!

[Lafu]

So you see your coins already on your Blockchain.com wallet ?
If yes you dont have to be worry they just need more confirmations to be aviable.
Guess the minimum of fees was taken and this takes longer to be confirmed and it also depends how fast miners find blocks to confirm your transaction.

[Leahhhh]

but what I really want to know is if I tried to send them elsewhere before they were confirmed in the Blockchain wallet will the new transactions ever confirm or come back to me? (the original transfer from the paper wallet to the Blockchain wallet is confirmed but probably wasn't when I tried to spend them).

[Lafu]

but what I really want to know is if I tried to send them elsewhere before they were confirmed in the Blockchain wallet will they ever confirm or come back to me?

You cant spend them normaly before they not full aviable and confirmed on your wallet !
And if this possible (what i guess its not ) your coins going out to the adress your send them after they are confirmed on your blockchain wallet!

[Leahhhh]

well it is now almost 2 hours since I tried to move some from the Blockchain account to a different address and there are still no confirmations.

[Lafu]

well it is now almost 2 hours since I tried to move some from the Blockchain account to a different address and there are still no confirmations.

You put the lowest fees i guess on the transaction and thats why the transaction got stock in mempool !
So more transaction fee you use so earlyer your confirmation on the transaction.
I got this last week too from blockchain and i guess it was comfirmed fully after 4 Hours or something like that !

Dont worry it will comes true !

[Leahhhh]

Lafu, I hope so I'll just watch for a while and see what happens.

[GSpgh]

The original transfer from my paper wallet to my Blockchain account now has 6 confirmations but may not have had any or maybe just one when I tried to move the coins on to other addresses. What normally happens if a person does this? I hope you're right about them not disappearing....I too read online that they will come back to the Blockchain account.

It's ok to spend unconfirmed coins. The second transaction will be confirmed after the first one (or both in the same block).

When I look into it in my Blockchain account, it says Output is unspent and has no children!

When you log in to your Blockchain wallet, do you see the correct balance on the dashboard? And if you go into the BTC wallet, do you see the correct transactions? Confirmed or unconfirmed? As long as nothing is missing or incorrect, you just need to wait for confirmations.

[Leahhhh]

Thanks GSpgh, glad to know it's OK to spend unconfirmed coins and that the 2nd transaction will eventually be confirmed. Maybe it's for the best - the price is rising slightly while I am waiting

[coin-investor]

Thanks GSpgh, glad to know it's OK to spend unconfirmed coins and that the 2nd transaction will eventually be confirmed. Maybe it's for the best - the price is rising slightly while I am waiting

If it takes some time to confirm you can ask for help to people who can accelerate your transaction, I have a friend in telegram that I ask for acceleration for free, go to the service section to find one. the longest I've had was 24 hours.

[Leahhhh]

the transaction importing my coins to my blockchain wallet now has 11 confirmations but my 2nd transaction transferring them out still has none. What is telegram.....how/where can I contact them? Do you mean on here or on the Blockchain site? Thanks.

[DdmrDdmr]

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This is when you need to take a step back, relax, and avoid rushing to find the wrong support. I believe you wallet is on Blockchain.com. If so, they have a support page (https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us) and a request formulary (https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us/requests/new). The have social channels as can be seen at the foot of their site, but no Telegram channel.

The best is probably to go through the above, and avoid the possibility of being lured into false conversations by impersonators on social media channels.

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It probably won't hurt to query them now through their formulary, since they may take time getting back to you.

[Leahhhh]

Yes, I'd be very wary about giving anybody my details. Do you think I need to do anything or just wait? Original transaction now has 12 confirmations but follow up one still has none.

[Leahhhh]

I've just gone to the Blockchain support page & it says 'Blockchain has no control over if or when a transaction confirms. This is handled entirely by the bitcoin network of miners of which we are not a part of', so doesn't look like contacting them will help.

[ronaldo40]

I've just gone to the Blockchain support page & it says 'Blockchain has no control over if or when a transaction confirms. This is handled entirely by the bitcoin network of miners of which we are not a part of', so doesn't look like contacting them will help.

i think you can try the transaction accelerator https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
you can use the transaction accelerator above if you got lucky enough you will include in a few next blocks that mined from viabtc pool

[Leahhhh]

is there any security risk in entering my transaction ID on that site?

[o_e_l_e_o]

Why don't you share the unconfirmed transaction ID here first so we can take a look at it.

The mempool is currently pretty backed up, as you can see from this site: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#1,8h. You currently need fees of around 20 sats/byte to be within 1 MB from the tip and be confirmed in the next block. If you have selected a low fee of a few sats/byte, then it will like be several hours or more before the mempool empties enough to confirm your transaction.

If you have made the transaction and can see it on a block explorer, then contacting blockchain.com will be futile. There is nothing else they can do.

Free transaction accelerators are usually a waste of time. Just be patient. Provided you can see your transaction "unconfirmed" on a block explorer, and the addresses are correct, then your coins are quite safe.