Topic: Cannot find my transaction on blockchain / No confirmations after 48hours+! HELP (Read 5507 times)

Nevermind about the local bitcoins, that was just a mis-calculation. Just missing my 6bitcoins from my wallet balance.

Do you think maybe the wallet.dat is partially corrupted? If so, e.g. only a few priv. keys can no longer be accessed, it should show in the debug.log and restoring from a backup not too old could do the trick.

Odd.  I'm tempted to explore this a bit more to see if we can figure out what happened.


Yes, but I'm trying to decide what's the best next course of action to have the best chance of success without wasting time.

If you're willing to share the transaction ID with me for the transaction that you sent to localbitcoins, I'd dig into that a bit for you.  You could share it here or via PM if you prefer.  I have a GPG public key if you would prefer to send it encrypted.

If the transaction was confirmed and it was sent from this wallet, then the wallet should have found it in the blockchain after the zapwallettxes.

You could try shutting down the wallet and then re-starting it from the command line with the -rescan command line option.  This will force the wallet to scan the entire blockchain again looking for confirmed transactions that it doesn't know about.  I'd be really surprised if it finds it during a rescan after failing to find it during the zapwallettxes, but it won't hurt anything (aside from potentially wasting your time).

As jaydipmodhwadia has mentioned, you could try a -reindex as well. This will rebuild all the indexes from the current blk000??.dat files on your hard drive.  This is another step that won't hurt, but is likely to waste time since we don't have any indication yet that it would help.

" No information available about transaction (code -5) "

btw Danny, i do appreciate your support and your quality. So regardless i will be donating 1btc to that charity you proposed.

Is there anything else to do? :/

Yes I did read the entire thread and no not entertaining myself.

I had a similar issue to no matter what I did I had missing BTC on my local wallet, but the online blockchain explorer should the correct amount.  There was something wrong with the PC/Wallet cause I imported my private key to another wallet and everything showed correctly.

Good!  Don't give anyone your wallet.    Glad you didn't send it to them!

Are you sure that this is the correct wallet.dat?  And you have backups?

If you didn't make a typing error, then this is concerning.

If you sent the transaction from this wallet, then getrawtransaction should have returned information about the transaction.

Are you sure you used the correct transaction ID?  Are you sure that you spelled getrawtransaction correctly?  Can you try it without the space and 1 at the end?

In other words:
Where you replace TXID with the actual transaction ID


If you sent a transaction from the wallet and the transaction is confirmed, then getrawtransaction should return information about the transaction.  If it doesn't, then there is something wrong with the transaction list in the wallet.

OP: Has it finished the zapping process..? It may be that you have to run it more than once..? (also, keep your wallet.dat file as safe as possible and DO NOT give it to anyone who either DM's you asking for it... It could be a silly mistake you make. Also as a user has said, can you post the receiving addresses..? I'm happy however, if you do not want to provide them. (this is for the 6 btc which you have not received)

DannyHamilton: Do you think that he may need to reindex his whole blockchain again maybe because the old version did not correctly convert..?

Thanks,
Jay.

Did you even read this thread, or are you just entertaining yourself by jumping in the middle of a conversation and giving random advice in hopes of confusing the situation and making things worse?


Certainly this investigation would be much easier if the OP was willing to provide a list of all addresses in the wallet as well as the output of listunspent and all the transaction IDs from the wallet.

However, since the OP hasn't provided any of this information yet, I'm assuming that they prefer to maintain their privacy.  I'm doing what I can to walk them through the process of investigating it themselves.  In the process they are hopefully learning more about how bitcoin works in the first place (as will anyone else that takes the time to read and understand this thread).

This is a useless question.  In order to answer it, the OP would need to look up every address that the wallet has stored. This is what we are already doing with the listunspent and getrawtransaction commands.

If you do not see the 6 BTC in your wallet addresses online blockchain explorers, then they went somewhere go through the transaction history in the online block explorers and find out where the 6 BTC was sent, or post your BTC receiving addresses and I am sure people here will help.

It states i have 0BTC in my address, obviously thats not true... i had to make a fresh receiving address, so this is probably the reason why.

In regards to: 'getrawtransaction' -- Nothing has been listed.

I don't think my wallet is somewhat damaged, since other transactions are going in and out fine. It's been over 4days now since this has took place, so surely by now it should be returned to my wallet.

What does the online blockchain explorers show your wallet has in it?  If it is the amount you should have then you are good, you just need to play with your client to get whatever error is happening with your client corrected.

If the sum of the unspent outputs matches your wallet balance, then the next step is going to be figuring out which outputs are missing from the wallet.  You'll need to go through them to figure that out.  Once you know exactly which outputs are missing, we'll be able to see if they were spent in a transaction in the blockchain, or if there is something wrong with the wallet's UTXO set.


The wallet doesn't "subtract bitcoins" or "add bitcoins".  All it does is keep track of unspent outputs and then show you the sum of the value associated with those unspent outputs.

If there is a confirmed transaction that sent 2 BTC somewhere, then you should be able to look that transaction up with:


Where TXID is replaced with the transaction ID of the confirmed transaction.
(that's a space and a one after the TXID, not an elle)

The result will be all the information about that transaction.

There will be an array of inputs ("vin") to that transaction. Each of those inputs will be outputs that you had previously received in your wallet.  Each input will be identified with a transaction ID ("txid") and an index ("vout") that indicates which output from that previous transaction is being spent.

If your wallet "failed to subtract the 2 BTC" then those outputs that are listed in "vin" will still show up in the list that you generated with "listunspent".  If that has happened, then your wallet's UTXO set is damaged and we'll need to find a way to repair it.

If none of the "vin" that are listed when you run the "getrawtransaction" show up in your list from "listunspent", then the wallet has subtracted the 2 BTC from that transaction, and the 2 BTC that you think are still in your wallet are from something else.

The transaction that is listed when you run "getrawtransaction" will also have an array of outputs ("vout").  Most likely there will be two outputs.

One output will have the localbitcoins address that you sent to and will have a value of 2 BTC.

The other will have a new address that your wallet generated for you and kept hidden from you. This output will have been used to send the excess value from the transaction back into your wallet.  If you haven't spent this output yet, then it will show up in the results of when you ran "listunspent".  If it doesn't show up in that list, then the output has already been spent in another transaction.  You should be able to look up the transaction in a block explorer to find out what transactionID was responsible for spending the output.

They all add up to the standing balance in my bitcoin wallet. However I'm still missing the 6bitcoins from that list, and also a 2bitcoin withdrawal to localbitcoins.

So basically.. My wallet needs to subtract the 2btc from which i sent too localbitcoins (that has been confirmed) and it needs to add the 6bitcoins back into my wallet since it hasnt been sent anywhere.

Ok, lets start with this:

In the Console tab of the Debug window found under the Help menu enter:


This will list all the unspent outputs that your wallet thinks you have control over.

Each output will have (among other things):

• The transaction ID (txid) of the transaction that supplied that output to your wallet
• The address (address) that you have control over that received that output
• The value (amount) of the output

Add up all the amounts from all the outputs.  Do they add up to the amount that your wallet says you have, or do they add up to the amount that you are expecting your wallet to have?

If they add up to the amount that your wallet says you have (they probably will), then can yo find a transaction in that list that you aren't expecting to see, or can you identify any transactions that you think you received, that aren't in that list.

The wallet doesn't actually keep track of balances.  It keeps track of unspent outputs.  When you create a transaction, the wallet chooses some unspent outputs to spend, then it creates new outputs.  It creates one new output for each recipient of the transaction, and an additional output that assigns the remaining value back to your wallet under a new address that the wallet creates for you and keeps hidden from you (except that these hidden addresses will show up in this list).  Then the wallet should keep track of the sum of these outputs that the wallet controls.

So it isn't really possible to "lose bitcoins from a genuine and normal transaction", because bitcoins don't actually exist.  All that exists are lists of unspent outputs.  As long as the wallet created an output back to your wallet for the change, then the wallet should have the correct balance, since it will have that output.  If the transaction vanishes, then the outputs that originally funded the transaction will no longer be "spent" since they no longer show up as inputs to a transaction.  Therefore they will be available in your wallet again as unspent outputs.

Once we figure out if some of your outputs are missing, we can see if we can figure out what happened to them.

You cant. Im not entirely sure what went wrong though.

If you look at the transaction tab, does it show what you would expect? Same for the receiving addresses, are they still the same you had previously? The address you had received the 6 BTC on (or whatever more there was) does it still show the correct balance on a blockchain explorer?

Just completed this command and it's the same result. Wow, surely this isn't some flaw?? Find it pretty poor how you can lose bitcoins from a genuine and normal transacation.

Run the same command you are running with zapwallettxes but instead of having zapwallettxes there, change it to -rescan.

I have the wallet file. I've rescanned the bitcoin with zapwallet and my bitcoins are still not appearing.



The coins were confirmed in my wallet for months, when i sent the coins it created a transacation which stated "Conflicted" and had 0-confirmations for over 72hours. I don't know what to do now?

People keep messaging me saying they need my wallet.dat to fix this, well that's not going to happen.. im not dumb.

Were the coin you used confirmed before you issued the transaction or did you quickly create a transaction after you received them? I ask because -zapwallettxes removed all unconfirmed transactions, received and created, from your wallet. It does not remove confirmed transactions or private keys/addresses.

Your Bitcoin is safe as long as you have that wallet file.

It should be rescanning the blockchain now to see how much Bitcoin you have. You might have to restart Bitcoin Core with the rescan option.

Wow. I've just finished syncing my wallet, and then did zapwallet...it's removed my conflicted transaction from the transaction page, and my 6bitcoins have NOT been put back in my wallet. Have i lost my bitcoins for ever? Surely this should not be possible?!?! All i did was send 6 bitcoins to my BTC-E wallet, and i get all this hassle and the loss of 6bitcoins because of this! What do i do? If anyone can get my 6btc back, a 1BTC bounty will be handed out. 

that amount is crazy hopefully u dindt used any hotwallet service instead of the qt for this.

regards
BTC LOVER

Don't worry about it.  I'm glad to help.  If you really want to spend some bitcoins in thanks, then find a charity that accepts bitcoins and make a donation.  This will reward the charity for choosing to accept bitcoins and will encourage other charities to do the same to increase their revenue sources.  This increased economic activity will demonstrate to merchants that bitcoin is a viable payment system and more merchants will consider adding it.  The increased adoption of bitcoin will benefit all of us.

Yes.  That is a very good sign that your wallet.dat is probably fine and that you will see all of your bitcoins back in your wallet when the rescan (or redownload) is done.

Once the scan is done, you'll want to run with the -zapwallettxes as shorena has indicated.  This will remove all transactions from the wallet.dat, and will rescan the blockchain to find only transactions that have actually confirmed.  When the scan is done, all the confirmed transactions will have been found in the blockchain and will therefore be returned to your wallet, but any unconfirmed transactions will have vanished from the wallet.  Since the unconfirmed transactions will no longer exist, the bitcoins associated with them will show up in your balance again so that you can re-send them.

Appreciate the in-depth reply, quality user, now i have a full understanding of where im at. Please PM your BTC address.

The newer versions of the software use a different database (blockchain) structure than the older versions.  The first time you run with the new version, it should convert it for you.

If you then run the old version, it may not have recognized the updated blockchain and it might therefore have thought that the blockchain was damaged.  It may therefore have removed the blockchain so it could re-download it.

Then when you started the new version again, it sees that the blockchain is gone and it starts downloading it.

3 years and 50 weeks is not the amount of time that you'll need to wait.  That's just telling you that the most recent block that the wallet has processed is the one from 3 years and 50 weeks ago.  The wallet will process all the blocks in order until it gets caught up to the most recently created block.  The amount of time that this takes will depend on the hardware that you are running with (how much RAM, how fast of a hard drive, how much CPU power, etc). It could take a few hours or if your hardware is slow enough it could take several days.

As the wallet processes blocks, it will look to see if the block included any transactions that sent bitcoins to you.  If so it will update the balance so that you'll know how many bitcoins you have.  Therefore the balance that the wallet is showing you is likely to be incorrect until it is done synchronizing the blockchain.

Once the wallet is done with the synchronization, you can run with the -zapwallettxes option as shorena has indicated.  This will not re-download the entire blockchain, but it will re-scan the blockchain that you already have.  That process could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.  When the scan is done you should have all of your bitcoins back (including the 6 that you tried to send to BTC-e).  You'll then be able to create a new transaction to send to BTC-e if you want.

In the future, I'd suggest not letting yourself fall so far behind in software versions.  New versions generally include very useful new features, and more importantly they include fixes to bugs.  Not having those fixes can lead to these sort of delays and frustrations as you try to work around what the old version did.

Yeah i made sure i had a copy of my wallet.dat... dont want to be losing 54 bitcoins lol. So im guessing i just confused it, since its rescanning.. ill have to wait for this to sync which by the looks of things, will take a while.

The good thing is that if i go into my transaction directory, all my transactions are listed, so that's a good thing?

First things first: make sure you have a backup of your wallet.dat file.

If you say you have the .exe files. Do you have them in seperate folders? Because usually if you install a new version of bitcoin core it just installs over the old version. So there should be no old .exe to click on.

The way newer versions handle the blockchain differently as they can store it out of order (block 7443 before block 435). Thus if you start the old .exe file it would probably get confused by the data and try to rescan from scratch.

If there is no TXID, your bitcoins haven't moved so no need to "get them back."

  Try quitting Bitcoin core and relaunching with the -zapwallet parameter.

Then resend with the recommended fees.

Edit:  the old thread had more info.  Backup wallet.dat.  So, run the current version.  If it is behind, let it resync. Try re-sending once it does.

Bitcoin Core v0.10 and above is not compatible with older versions due to the headers-first synchronization. Hence, it may be trying to reindex again.

I have my old bitcoin.exe, and the new upgraded bitcoin.exe, when i upgraded my wallet and ran the application it was upgraded and it displayed everything correctly (still missing the 6btc however).
Then i closed that, and i accidental clicked the old bitcoin.exe, and then closed that to open my new one and now i need to wait 3 years and 50 weeks.. is there anything i can do?

I was assuming he reset it?

That does not sound right. An update to the latest version should not remove the blockchain data.

It's resetting the blockchain, you will have your BTC back once it is finished but it won't take 4 years, that's just the time frame in the blockchain it's at.

Omg.. i just upgraded my wallet, ran the application and it displayed my current stats, etc. Just closed it and then re-opened and it saids i need to wait 4years and i have 0BTC balance?

1st sorry for reporting your post to be moved here. I understood it so that you could not withdraw from BTC-E.

To remove the conflicted transaction from your wallet you need to:

#1 close bitcoin core
#2 restart it with -zapwallettxes
#2.1 e.g. for windows you open run (press Win + R), enter: c:\Program Files\Bitcoin\bitcoin-qt.exe -zapwallettxes (modify path if needed) and confirm with ok
#2.2. for linux / mac you open a terminal and enter bitcoin-qt -zapwallettxes. That should work in most cases, if not let us know the error message
#3 wait a bit, the TX will be gone once the wallet has done its thing.

Yeah but you didnt loose the coins, i think just reset the blockchain will help and you will the coins back in your wallet.

Status: conflicted
Date: 16/12/2015 15:39
To: 1PzcBCFY3pYkTFH23A7577QuwseF7yQBa2
Debit: -6.00000000 BTC
Net amount: -6.00000000 BTC
Transaction ID: 9eeb7c94efab8eb8da97ca3f5ce02bf1b264e53ea561ffc04483e44a64643429-000

I just upgraded my wallet, and it saids conflicted now?

I think he needs to reset the blockchain and he will have his coins back

Try upgrading to a newer version, the older version may be producing a high S value transactions which is considered non standard.
Before that, make a new backup of the wallet just in case.

I already have, it's located in my OP (the image) and in a post. Here it is again:

Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 16/12/2015 15:39
To: 1PzcBCFY3pYkTFH23A7577QuwseF7yQBa2
Debit: -6.00 BTC
Net amount: -6.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 9eeb7c94efab8eb8da97ca3f5ce02bf1b264e53ea561ffc04483e44a64643429

https://gyazo.com/ede0a26841ca9a2cee1d369d318a6b80.png

Ok goto transactions, right click on the transaction, past ALL info that it gives you

I'm using: https://gyazo.com/bf90e40c8ac60ba79494d5ef6118468e.png


I have alot of sending addresses, is there a recent order for my latest sends? Thanks guys.

What is the bitcoin wallet software you used to send the BTC? Or is it a online wallet?

He has sent the BTC from his wallet so BTC-E should not have any records. What sending address did you use?

I sent the bitcoins from my bitcoin wallet to my BTC-E wallet, however there is no record of it reaching that wallet, let alone of it being confirmed on blockchain, etc.
This is all i have:

Status: 0/unconfirmed
Date: 16/12/2015 15:39
To: 1PzcBCFY3pYkTFH23A7577QuwseF7yQBa2
Debit: -6.00 BTC
Net amount: -6.00 BTC
Transaction ID: 9eeb7c94efab8eb8da97ca3f5ce02bf1b264e53ea561ffc04483e44a64643429

I don't know how to get the TX.

For BTC-E wallet i dont know... find the transaction details and past everything you have here

how do i do that buddy? thanks.

Indeed the transaction can not be found, also the receiving address never got the 6 BTC: https://blockchain.info/address/1PzcBCFY3pYkTFH23A7577QuwseF7yQBa2

Is there any way you can post TX?

I sent a total of 6 bitcoins 2 days ago to my BTC-E wallet, however, there are no confirmations in the wallet & i cannot find the transaction on blockchain using the transaction ID it generated after sending.

Here is the IMAGE: https://gyazo.com/e770eb7d779f2a4854b7f21c69706d65.png

Transaction ID: 9eeb7c94efab8eb8da97ca3f5ce02bf1b264e53ea561ffc04483e44a64643429

https://blockchain.info/search/9eeb7c94efab8eb8da97ca3f5ce02bf1b264e53ea561ffc04483e44a64643429
"Sorry we could not find any blocks or transactions matching this hash"

Please can someone help me? How do i get my bitcoins back??

Thank you!