i can see BTC on wallet GUI but when i see it on explorer, the balance is NIL

[Chandu141]

i can see BTC on wallet GUI but when i see it on explorer, the balance is NIL



How is it possible ?

and i am unable to send the funds to any wallet address.. i had to wait and wait then abandon the tx because it always shows not in mempool ....

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[jackg]

Can you post the txid or address and a screenshot of what the wallet says?

You haven't given much info, are the funds confirmed or unconfirmed in the wallet?

[pooya87]

you also didn't mention what wallet you are using. depending on the type, it could be a variety of reasons. a custodial wallet or web wallets may have been bugged or they simply hadn't credited your account, in Electrum you may have clicked the wrong button and stored the tx locally instead of broadcasting it, in bitcoin core you may be out of sync/having network problems,...

[nc50lc]

You still haven't replied to your other thread.
But based from this, you likely have used missing or already spent inputs for that transaction.
It's best if you can manually send it to your own mempool to see what error message you'll get.

What you need to do is to answer these questions:
Where did your balance came from?
What error did you get when you tried to send it to your mempool using these instructions:

You can use the console command sendrawtransaction to broadcast it ('Window->Console' to open console).
Just get that particular txn's "RAW transaction" using the right click menu and paste that after the command.
eg:

Code:

sendrawtransaction "raw_transaction_in_hex"

"Right-click menu" is the menu when you right-clicked the transaction in the 'Transactions' tab.

[Chandu141]

You still haven't replied to your other thread.
But based from this, you likely have used missing or already spent inputs for that transaction.
It's best if you can manually send it to your own mempool to see what error message you'll get.

What you need to do is to answer these questions:
Where did your balance came from?
What error did you get when you tried to send it to your mempool using these instructions:

You can use the console command sendrawtransaction to broadcast it ('Window->Console' to open console).
Just get that particular txn's "RAW transaction" using the right click menu and paste that after the command.
eg:

Code:

sendrawtransaction "raw_transaction_in_hex"

"Right-click menu" is the menu when you right-clicked the transaction in the 'Transactions' tab.

my balance came from exchanges and it was there from 2018
when i send  , i get Status: 0/unconfirmed, not in memory pool  // after waiting hours, i had to abandon the tx

i am using bitcoin core wallet

my wallet is fully synced and working fine. using latest version 0.20.1

i see my available balance on fully synced wallet.. but when i check funds on explorer i see final balance as zero.. how is it possible ?


https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3BPJgrAHwQQ85YhMAFQct3XnqwebHsfhSc


i tried raw tx... i got error : Missing inputs (code -25)

[nc50lc]

my balance came from exchanges and it was there from 2018
when i send  , i get Status: 0/unconfirmed, not in memory pool  // after waiting hours, i had to abandon the tx
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i see my available balance on fully synced wallet.. but when i check funds on explorer i see final balance as zero.. how is it possible ?
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3BPJgrAHwQQ85YhMAFQct3XnqwebHsfhSc

That transaction from 2018 was saved in your wallet.dat but probably have been offline after the input was spent in 2019
and somehow failed to fetch the latest transaction that spent the "missing (spent) input" during your last sync.

Running Bitcoin core with -rescan (don't if you're using a pruned node) will 'fix' the issue but that won't recover the already spent inputs.
It will just show your real balance which may be 0BTC if you do not have other addresses with balance.
Does your transaction has more than one inputs?
Because if at least one of them is invalid, it will result with the same error, in that case -rescan will also eliminate the missing input(s).

Do you recognize this transaction from 2019, because it spent your balance from 2018?
313cb0b28d23f6e8afdb9f93bf047d41360745881ecdd9e387e10f067cd1bc8a

[bob123]

To me it also seems like you don't really own the BTC you think you do.

Using -rescan as mentioned by nc50lc should afterwards show you the true balance.
But if multiple blockchain explorers show no balance for an address you believe to have BTC, then there are no BTC associated to it.