Transaction not broadcasting!!! :(

[kashish948]

Hi

I sent 0.2 BTC to 1MzvNQgEvUXBoTP51aoFy7Emgt1Z3akBRJ but it did not even get broadcast. Im using Bitcoin Core v0.9.1.0.  Below are the details:

Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 6/16/2014 14:17
To: 1MzvNQgEvUXBoTP51aoFy7Emgt1Z3akBRJ
Debit: -0.20 BTC
Net amount: -0.20 BTC
Transaction ID: b4682d603797abded3033b16a746edd34b3555ce1527d63dce76ac2e37974ca2-000

Then, I sent in another 0.2 BTC and that is getting confirmed without any issues. TXID: fe90639cf18f4a23e37caa89741bce130e7a642e75997f54956fc59349b4dfd7-000

How can I get the first transaction to confirm? Whats going to happen with those coins?

PS: Its been about 1 hour since I sent it.

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[byt411]

Your transaction isn't confirming, it has broadcast to the network. Next time add a fee, I think that your coins weren't old enough. It'll confirm soon.

[rarkenin]

Blockchain.info has seen it and treats it as a "high priority" estimated confirmation, in spite of there not being a fee. A good number of nodes have seen and relayed it. Hopefully some miner will acknowledge it soon and insert it in a block. After about a week, nodes will start to drop it and you will see the amount back in your account.

[kashish948]

Blockchain.info has seen it and treats it as a "high priority" estimated confirmation, in spite of there not being a fee. A good number of nodes have seen and relayed it. Hopefully some miner will acknowledge it soon and insert it in a block. After about a week, nodes will start to drop it and you will see the amount back in your account.

It got confirmed! Just for knowledge sake though, what did you mean by after a week it will be back in my account? How would that happen?!

[rarkenin]

If the transaction was not picked up by a miner (malformed, fee too small), then eventually nodes would "forget" it by removing it from their memory pool. Your wallet would recognize this situation and would allow you to re-spend your coins, as otherwise once any coins are sent they would become unspendable by that wallet if they never got confirmed.

[DeathAndTaxes]

If the transaction was not picked up by a miner (malformed, fee too small), then eventually nodes would "forget" it by removing it from their memory pool. Your wallet would recognize this situation and would allow you to re-spend your coins, as otherwise once any coins are sent they would become unspendable by that wallet if they never got confirmed.

That is not correct for all wallets and certainly isn't correct for the OP wallet.

Bitcoin Core v0.9.1.0

The Bitcoin Core wallet will continually attempt to rebroadcast a transaction forever.  It doesn't allow tx which won't be relayed to be created and then assumes it will eventually be included in a block.  There are ways to double spend the original but they user intervention and third party utilities.

[rarkenin]

Apologies, I take that back then.