Sending BTC

[spazzdla]

If a TX is not confirmed by the network after 24 hours the nodes will "forget" the TX and the BTC will remain in the address that you tried to send it from.

That's not entirely true. I've had unconfirmed transactions (specifically, those sent without fee), that have been unconfirmed for 2-3 days, but eventually were confirmed. So I'm not sure what the hard-and-fast rules are here.

This may have been an exception to the rule. My understanding of the Bitcoin protocol is that nodes should delete unconfirmed TX after 24 hours. I looked on google to double check and couldn't find anything concrete. One thing you could do to take care of this issue would be to send a TX that uses at least one of the same inputs as the unconfirmed TX with a bigger fee and this should be confirmed by the network.

Different clients have different behaviour, some rebroadcast for a long time if it remains unconfirmed. Some stop broadcasting after a period of time.

Exactly.
Bitcoin-qt, for example, will keep re-broadcasting your unconfirmed tx.

It will...?  Didn't seem so..  Transaction number never showed up on blockchain.info soo.. I gave up and did what I did.

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[Soappa]

Bitcoin-qt, for example, will keep re-broadcasting your unconfirmed tx.

It will...?  Didn't seem so..  Transaction number never showed up on blockchain.info soo.. I gave up and did what I did.

Well, it should.
Also, if you have the same problem next time, you could use getrawtransaction <TxID> and then push the transaction on https://blockchain.info/pushtx and https://blockr.io/tx/push

[Soappa]

I've already re-sent the BTC and re-downloaded the blockchain.

It was synced with conections, I have a feeling it might of been because I closed the client before any confirms.

Is sounds like you are using bitcoin-qt, don't. Multibit is a lot faster and easier. Multibit should be default client.

Just for your reference:

http://www.coindesk.com/multibit-user-loss-high-need-bitcoin-wallets/

MultiBit’s response

Wetseals accused MultiBit’s main developer Jim Burton of responding generically to the request, and not addressing the issue.
Later, Burton commented on Reddit:
 “In the life of MultiBit (i.e from 2011) there’s probably a handful of cases like these. If there is damage to the private key bytes (for whatever reason) and there is no other copy available/backed up then you’ve lost access to the bitcoins.”

[spazzdla]

Bitcoin-qt, for example, will keep re-broadcasting your unconfirmed tx.

It will...?  Didn't seem so..  Transaction number never showed up on blockchain.info soo.. I gave up and did what I did.

Well, it should.
Also, if you have the same problem next time, you could use getrawtransaction <TxID> and then push the transaction on https://blockchain.info/pushtx and https://blockr.io/tx/push

Sweet, this is good info, thanks man!!

[Soappa]

Bitcoin-qt, for example, will keep re-broadcasting your unconfirmed tx.

It will...?  Didn't seem so..  Transaction number never showed up on blockchain.info soo.. I gave up and did what I did.

Well, it should.
Also, if you have the same problem next time, you could use getrawtransaction <TxID> and then push the transaction on https://blockchain.info/pushtx and https://blockr.io/tx/push

Sweet, this is good info, thanks man!!

No problem, and I hope you don't need to use that though.

[monsterbitty]

Did you checked the balance in the new address using blockchain.info/address/Youraddress.

so you can track the status.

[spazzdla]

Did you checked the balance in the new address using blockchain.info/address/Youraddress.

so you can track the status.

I have, I have also checked it on my seperate HD where my one wallet is located(well...I've also got it on 6-7 USB's but that is neither here or there). It is completely offline now though.