Topic: [free] help with your stuck transaction (Read 4909 times)

Question 1:
This transaction depends on an unconfirmed transaction, it can only be confirmed once the parent is also confirmed.
You can either pay for an acceleration service like viabtc.com, btc.com or f2pool.com, create a CPFP transaction paying the fees for the 3 transaction (the parent transaction, your transaction, and the CPFP transaction), wait it out while rebroadcasting the transaction, or demand that the exchange cleans up their mess.

Question 2:
Can't help you with the amount of information available, can you tell me if you're the sender/receiver and which wallet you used?

Question 3:
This is basically exactly the same problem as question 1, so the advice i gave this poster should also work for you

Question 4:
I saw that you posted right after my public service announcement, so i decided to move my public service announcement one post down and include your question to the final answer round, since the answer might also be interesting for other members

It's basically the other way around: a parent will never get stuck because it's child has a low fee... But if the parent has a low fee, and the child has a much higher fee (in sat/byte), the high-fee child might actually speed up the confirmation for the low-fee parent.
It's quite simple actually, a miner wants to maximise his revenue. He cannot add the high-fee child to his block if the parent is still unconfirmed. If he wants the big fee, he is forced to add both the child and the parent to his block... This is what is commonly known as a CPFP

It doesn't work the other way around: if the parent has a high fee, and the child has a small fee, a miner can just add the parent to his block, and he doesn't have to add the child... This way he maximises his income even more

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Since i'm providing a free selfhelp service in this thread (i'm not getting payed to do this, i have no affiliation with this forum, nor with any service i recommand, exept when i link to my own website), i'd like to have the weekend with my wife and kid, so i'll be locking this thread for NEW questions for at least a week.

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Hi,

Without a doubt, the stuck parent transaction is the reason the child isn't getting any confirmations.
Since the sweeping transaction still isn't confirmed.. I would personally try to double spend the unspent outputs that were funding your paper wallet in a transaction with a much higher fee... You could potentially fund bittrex'es deposit address directly, that way you only need to pay fees once.
In one of the previous questions, i showed how you can create raw transactions using bitcoin core, i also posted a link to a blogpost on how to create raw transactions using coinb.in

Let me know if you need any assistance!

You, sir are A hero. Indeed I understand that the child will not go through without the parent, but I thought that was just a question of waiting for the parent to be confirmed, then waiting for the child. Since bot have > 600 satoshi/B fee they should come through, right? My question is, are the processes linked in the sense that the first transaction hangs because the second is dependent on it. Meaning: would the first transaction have gone through by now if I wouldn't have performed the second one without waiting for confirmation?

I can wait for another 12 hours, no problem but if you tell me that it will probably never go through, I will go for the options you present. And please post an address where can tip you. Your help in invaluable.

Edit: Sorry, just read the fninshing of your post, will PM you now.

Edit2: Sorry, hitting some limit in posting so the PM is saved as draft. Will PM later.

Hello.

stuck transaction from local exchange to my ledger wallet(due low 286 sat/b fee).

Sender:  1JnMfpyco6VidXaCEGc5z9sQdg2Ur2wzZD
Receiver:    18TNiy7Cw9exJr8AC2vYSegsLNBWG2wq8q

Trans ID:  4d045b3127538d23e2de9c191a01ff28f346f594b892e7ab7d220081da13fe33

Who can help and confirm this transaction will be reworded good fee.

Thank you in advance.                       Regards

Hi

Any help on this one :

https://blockchain.info/fr/tx/24b4d3fb6c03e16842ae52d294efcd9309bb948343d7e5abb9600f403f4a7dd1


destination wallet :     3BEpzSwXf8sE1zbfEfYb4eygFn5JcJT611



Thanks a lot in advance

Hello.
 transaction from local exchange to my ledger nano s stuck.


https://blockchain.info/tx/4d045b3127538d23e2de9c191a01ff28f346f594b892e7ab7d220081da13fe33


 should i wait for exchange to act?
 
did transfer get dropped/back to exchange after 72 hours?

is it to soon to accelerate it by myself( costly) or wait more(how much)?


thank you in advance                         regards

I just woke up this morning, and saw a lot of unanswered emails, PM's, replies on my blogposts and questions in this thread... I'll try to answer the questions i got in my thread in this post.

I'll be updating this post and adding more and more answers, so please check back untill your question has been answered.

I'd like to note that, since i seem to get a couple hundred help requests each week, i won't be able to spoonfeed any answers... I'll try to give everybody a push in the general direction to help them solve their problems by themselfs.
I no longer have the opportunity to push any transactions to any accelerator, this is something you'll have to do for yourself:

https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/

Question 1:

It's confirmed... My help is no longer needed

Question 2:

Well, the sender seems to have cheaped out on the fee... Depending on the wallet you used to receive the BTC, you can do a CPFP... Could you tell me the wallet software you used to generate the receiving address?

Question 3:

Since you were using core, i can only assume you created the last couple of tx's while the fee was still in the ~400 sat/byte range, then closed your client? When you re-started your wallet, it didn't immediately knew the "correct" fee, so it used the last-known good fee, which was, at that point, to low...

To solve your problem, there are a couple of options:
1) wait it out and try to double spend the inputs of your stuck transaction... You already figured that out yourself . Since you're using core, you'll need to start up your core wallet. I just found out the wiki has a nice how-to: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fee_bumping#Bitcoin_Core_GUI (the first 9 steps are necessary for your wallet to stop broadcasting), i'd personally suggest to wait a couple of days after step 9 has been completed, that way your tx will have been pruned from the mempool of most nodes

2) It seems there was a change address.. That fact will allow you to do a CPFP:  you could potentially use the output funding your change address 1JpkfjEz1LsefQWayGHPFGfp1mnV1QjJLv  to create a new transaction with a fee that is high enough to pay the fee for both the stuck transaction (parent) and the CPFP transaction (child)

3) if you're really desperate, as a last resort, you can use the payed accelerator service of viabtc.com or btc.com or f2pool

4) do nothing but keep rebroadcasting the transaction... I really believe (but cannot know 100% sure) that at some point, the fee will once again drop. If you just keep rebroadcasting the transaction (with bitcoin core, just opening your wallet once a day should be sufficient), sooner or later it'll probably end up in a block without any interference

Question 4:

I have a hard time understanding your problem, but rebroadcasting is pretty simple and can even be done using online tools only
1) search your transaction on blockchain.info... Make sure the url is like this: https://blockchain.info/tx/c33be8f735d280826cd13dbdee0e286b6b7268c80998f7835537bf1e9a85ec96 (sample tx from an earlyer question)
2) add ?format=hex at the end of the url (sample: https://blockchain.info/tx/c33be8f735d280826cd13dbdee0e286b6b7268c80998f7835537bf1e9a85ec96?format=hex )
3) copy the raw transaction printed on the screen
4) google for "bitcoin transaction broadcast online", find a couple of nodes that offer a gui for transaction broadcasting. Timelord2067 even created a thread where he collects nodes that allow rebroadcasting transactions: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guide-broadcast-your-raw-transaction-btc-alts-coins-1938621
5) just open the web gui's from step 4, paste the raw tx from step 3, submit and you're done


Question 5:

Well, i don't have a lot of knowledge about breadwallet, if you succeed in switching to a wallet i know, like electrum, i can potentially guide you trough the next steps. I don't know if breadwallet uses a seed, if you can export your private keys, or your xprv... I'd personally try to find the answer to this question using google.

As for your second question, there are 3 pools that offer an legit paying txacceleration service (i've never used a payed service myself, but i've read positive things about these pools):
pushtx.btc.com
https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
f2pool (you can contact them on bitcointalk by talking to macbook-air, the owner, or quickseller, a member with push privileges)

Question 6:
As a receiver, you're more or less bound to a couple options:
1) waiting it out while regularly rebroadcasting the tx (see question 4 for a howto)
2) creating a CPFP, which is pretty hard to do from an online wallet... I think you can switch from blockchain to electrum somehow. From electrum you can actually do this pretty easily. If you are unhappy with option 1, please try to move to electrum and ask me how to create a cpfp afterwards

Question 7:

Sorry to tell you, but it's basically the same answer as question 6... As a receiver, you can either wait it out while rebroadcasting a transaction, or do a CPFP, which is really hard to do from a web wallet... Is there a possibility to switch your wallet from the web wallet to electrum or core? I have no experience with those web wallets, so i don't know if it's an option

Question 8:

Sure, just for reference, in case anybody wants to try this at home, i'll give the necessary steps:
there is one input with a value of  2.2599 BTC :  "3c43248fb49c6041860610c32be5659039499bf3ccda43a28ccb2d47bf4353d4" vout 0
there are 2 outputs, funding addresses 1Nejxrk4Y9Q2eQ6YTd3hMi46uSnnN4Ghbn  and 3AbZaaKj4ZVomw4YKTTpraqQYbaesByTpJ
since the unspent output used for this tx is funding an address starting with 1, i can defenatly say it's not a segwit wallet without thinking twice
Some commercial interruption: i used my very own tool: https://www.mocacinno.com/page/feeestimate option 2, 1 input, 2 outputs, a "reasonable" fee is: 0.0017 BTC (it's not the best fee, but it should work)

So, we'll fund address 3AbZaaKj4ZVomw4YKTTpraqQYbaesByTpJ with 0.06418718 and we'll take the fee from the funding of address 1Nejxrk4Y9Q2eQ6YTd3hMi46uSnnN4Ghbn, so it should receive 2.2599 - (0.06418718  + 0.0017) = 2.19401282. I'm going to round this down to 2.194

From the command line

the resulting, raw, unsigned transaction is

Since i don't take responsability for any typos, you should run this unsigned tx trough a decoder before even attempting to sign it!
https://blockchain.info/decode-tx

In order to sign it with electrum, you should create an ascii file with a txn extension, and paste the following data into it:

Now, you should be able to go to tools => load transaction => from fille
Sign the transaction
Paste the transaction in a post and let me have a look before we broadcast

If this doesn't work, it might have something to do with the fact that i didn't try this procedure for quite a long time... It's possible you'll have to start up electrum in offline modus, but i can't remember from heart how to do this (info should be available in the electrum documentation, or questions can be asked in the electrum subforum)


Question 9:
Allways nice to see a followup, thanks for sharing

Question 10:

Well, the fee was reasonable, not really perfect i'm afraid... A fee this high gave you a good shot at getting a confirmation within a reasonable timeframe, but defenatly not a 95% chance... Calculating fees is maximising the odds of getting your transaction into the next x blocks... You had decent odds, but they were not optimal.

Question 11:
I can give you a few tips and pointers...
First of all, your transaction added a fee of 15 sat/byte while at this moment, a fee of >1000 sat/byte is optimal if you want a 95% chance of getting your tx in the next 3 blocks... So a transaction with this fee might take multiple months to confirm (if you keep rebroadcasting it).
Your non-technical options are rather limited
1) keep rebroadcasting the transaction (see question 4) and hope it'll *eventually* confirm
2) make sure the transaction is defenatly not rebroadcasted, wait a while, then try to restore your wallet on a different phone from backup and hope your wallet software "forgets" about the transaction. If it doesn't, it probably means that there is a record about this transaction stored in the backup, you can ask if there is a possibility to remove this record in the schildenbach wallet's subforum (i think it still exists).

The technical options could also work, but i don't know if they are possible using a mobile wallet... I think there is an option to export private keys from a schildenback wallet backup and import them into electrum or core... If you don't like the non-technical sollutions, i'd urge you to look into this option, as the technical sollutions actually need to be performed on a wallet i know (unless you find somebody else to help you with more intimate knowledge about the schildenbach wallet).
As a sender AND receiver, you can do the following things:
- double spend the inputs in a new transaction
- create a CPFP

Question 12:

Mycelium messed up, since this fee is defenatly not enough to have a decent chance of getting into any blocks the next couple of days/weeks... It's sufficient to get a confirmation *sometimes* tough, just don't hold your breath for it being any time soon.
Since the receiver is an exchange, the only thing you can do is from the sender point of view:
- there seems to be a change address, so you can attempt a CPFP
- you can double spend the unspent outputs used as an input for your transaction
- the tx isn't opt-in RBF, so you can't do that
- you can keep rebroadcasting the transaction and hope it'll *eventually* confirm
- you can stop rebroadcasting, save the raw tx (see question 4) "just in case", then try to restore your wallet in a couple of days, and hope mycelium will no longer show the stuck transaction and allows you to use the same unspent outputs to create a brand new transaction

In order to do a double spend or a CPFP, i think you'll need a decent desktop wallet... I don't think i can help you create one of these transactions using mycelium. Can you look into moving your wallet from mycelium to electrum or core?

Question 13:
I don't have time to wait for viabtc's tool to allow the next 100 free accelerations. I posted the link at the top of this post.
If you want more advice, please give me the information i need to put you on the right track (read the very first post of this thread)

Question 14:
I don't have time to wait for viabtc's tool to allow the next 100 free accelerations. I posted the link at the top of this post.
If you want more advice, please give me the information i need to put you on the right track (read the very first post of this thread)

Question 15:
I haven't had time to go trough your tutorial (yet), but any help i get is greatly appreciated :-)

Question 16:
If you want my advice, i'll need a little bit more info: like which wallet you used.
If you're willing to pay for an acceleration: the link you posted to viabtc also includes information about their payed acceleration service, btc.com and f2pool.com are also known to accept and execute payed accelerations.

Good luck!

Question 17:
I don't have time to wait for viabtc's tool to allow the next 100 free accelerations. I posted the link at the top of this post.
If you want more advice, please give me the information i need to put you on the right track (read the very first post of this thread)

Question 18:
I'm happy to help you out
There are several roads you can take:
1) wait it out, keep rebroadcasting the transaction by opening your wallet once in a while.. But with a 30 sat/byte fee, it *might* take weeks before the transaction finally confirms (it might even take months... It's all about odds, and right now, the odds of ending up in a block with a 30 sat/byte fee are really low)
2) you were on the right track with abandoning your transaction, you did forget a couple of steps that might explain why it didn't work. I stopped explaining the problem in my own words, since the guys of the wiki did a far better job than i ever could: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fee_bumping#Bitcoin_Core_GUI . You need the first 9 steps to abandon the tx, but since you were sending to Bitpay, i'd suggest also spending at least one of the unspent outputs again, funding one of your own addresses... That way the "stuck" transaction will no longer be valid
3) a more nuclear option would be to stop your wallet, and restart it with the -zapwallettxes option, this will force a full rescan of all the blocks, and it will only add confirmed transactions to your wallet.
4) since you are the sender, but it looks like a change address was used, you could also attempt a CPFP by spending the unspent output from the stuck transaction that funds your change address in a new transaction whose fee is big enough to cover both the fee of the stuck transaction AND the CPFP transaction. Let me know if you need help

On a sidenote: i would contact bitpay before attempting step 1 or 4, i'd try to find out if they are still honoring the payment first

Question 19:
Hi, could you add the extra info, as stipulated in the very first post of this thread?

Question 20:
There are a couple of problems with this transaction... The wallet used for sending was just a 'normal' (non-segwit) wallet, so (like you assumed correctly), the 400 sat/byte fee wasn't sufficient (it could have been sufficient if you were sending from a segwit wallet tough). But this isn't your main concern.
A 400 sat/byte fee will *eventually* confirm. I can only take a wild guess here, but i don't think it'll take weeks to confirm, as long as you keep rebroadcasting it.
The main problem is that this transaction uses an unspent output from an UNCONFIRMED transaction as it's input. Your transaction cannot confirm before transaction 472bc48974906b8727163c52d401d8a4b3f23c71c73e6ae6db6787108f273e61 confirms. Sadly, this parent transaction has a 24 sat/byte fee, so chances of THIS one confirming are not that good at the moment i'm afraid.
Could you tell me something about this stuck parent transaction, since this is the root problem?

Question 21:

Hi, i can give you a push in the right direction if i get more information about the problem (see the OP)

Question 22:

Hi,

Without a doubt, the stuck parent transaction is the reason the child isn't getting any confirmations.
Since the sweeping transaction still isn't confirmed.. I would personally try to double spend the unspent outputs that were funding your paper wallet in a transaction with a much higher fee... You could potentially fund bittrex'es deposit address directly, that way you only need to pay fees once.
In one of the previous questions, i showed how you can create raw transactions using bitcoin core, i also posted a link to a blogpost on how to create raw transactions using coinb.in

Let me know if you need any assistance!

Hi, first of all, you are being most generous, thank you.

But before enlisting your help, I have a question. Yesterday I imported a paper wallet:
https://blockexplorer.com/tx/39f9ddbb24897f6dabd3394a2e7de0e7253e0d996d96236ff7ca95f94e156eb3
Or blockchain.info link (shows fees are 611.224 sat/B ):
https://blockchain.info/tx/39f9ddbb24897f6dabd3394a2e7de0e7253e0d996d96236ff7ca95f94e156eb3

The transaction is stuck although I believe with ~600 satoshi/byte I added enough fee to at least have it confirmed in a couple of hours (it has been 21 hours now).

My question is: I next preceded to transfer the btc to Bittrex:
https://blockexplorer.com/tx/812c46b909d4ab88abf7c8c2f2d7c2de6133b84c35788e4da96449fd2cf694dd

This is of course dependent on the first transaction because the wallet does not contain enough BTC if the first transaction is not confirmed.

Can the fact that I spend unconfirmed BTC be the cause of the delay of the first transaction? I can add fee to the second transaction in my Android wallet, but not to the first.

Thank you for your help, I might later on ask for help confirming transaction 1. If you want I can tip you, what would you think is appropriate? If I decide to do so, I will fill out a post properly for you.

Highest regards.

https://blockchain.info/fr/tx/24b4d3fb6c03e16842ae52d294efcd9309bb948343d7e5abb9600f403f4a7dd1






This one's stuck.

Can someone please help to make it goes through ?

Stuck for 4++ days
transaction id: 39cc8d672044cbb9ee41a52b8f96bc92eb02a0cdfb2025adf3996bfea21c0958
sender/receiver: sender and receiver
addresses: 1LuZrawmn1RPk3obpWJuaTr9H1erVUJAmV is my sending address, 3FSDSU7Rk99SL1xdXCR88VavUF76hFVdRd is my receiving address, at ledger nano S SEGWIT address
mempool: yes, it shows in the mempool
something strange: nothing strange, except that I'm sending from my legacy address to segwit.
rectified situation: I already used dynamic fee, I even adjusted to quite over 400 sat/bytes but even that seems not enough (need over 700 sat now). Next time, I'll double that.
tip: I cannot tip via BTC right now but I will tip 10$ via Bitcoin Cash if you can push it through and if you accept BCH.

Hello,
 If someone could help me with my stuck transaction i will tip them of course.
Im a new member and so far im very surprised how helpful this community is.

My trans ID: be3914bc7560ee348ccdc75ced6d901fc1cfbaf1dc53265058bd20b4d5cadf9f


Thank You!

mocacinno If you can help me I'll tip you 20 USD worth after tx fees drop. This is my first stuck transaction in over 6 years. I should have learned how to deal with this long ago but never had to.
I was in a rush and did't wait for my client to fully sync before sending. Now its 12 days later and I'm not sure if Bitpay will honor my transaction or what.

I'm Sending https://blockchain.info/tx/0f10b1790a018fcc8a7ff44dbee327bba99e75c4eb8b967d95bd283612255da9

Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool
Date: 12/9/2017 22:38
To: egifter  15kv9LiLNHzGtT3qqbvM5SnyuCoYj4qxcb
Debit: -0.15032700 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00006746 BTC
Net amount: -0.15039446 BTC
Transaction ID: 0f10b1790a018fcc8a7ff44dbee327bba99e75c4eb8b967d95bd283612255da9
Transaction total size: 224 bytes
Output index: 1

Using Bitcoin Core. I was going to use "abandon Transaction" or 'resend with fee" but they were both grayed out.

Please someone help me !

It's been stuck for nearly two days, I'm new to all of this

https://blockchain.info/tx/376697eebc1d93e3250aaf1c4838aded19eec825171c743a022e1192c8f9bafa

Hello everyone, so I am new to this and I had used a low feed on a transaction and it's 3 days and still unconfirmed.
I regret that I did not put a bigger feed but if somehow it is possible for anyone to make this transaction work I would even pay just to have it confirmed.

I tried: https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ but with no success it's impossible to get one slot.

This is the transaction from 19 december: d4ca7ba3702754406af052ed52b87ed575964fc2fce2df8c55022dd40921746e

https://blockchain.info/tx/d4ca7ba3702754406af052ed52b87ed575964fc2fce2df8c55022dd40921746e

Again if anyone is able to make this transaction work, I would even pay if requested!!!

Thank you!

I made a quick guide on how to double spend using electrum....  this should help you, and those that need the transactions to go through if OP is not online:

https://mylbcguy1.wixsite.com/fixmybitcointx

This one also is stuck for more then three days now  . Maybe you can help:

Trx ID: 5399f72435717465a891af49f23ade956e434500ba89a671c1cf059cfcfad53f

can you please help :

92fedc84404843ff4d46c385aefb75b46e179668941107bcbfac795680b2af63

Pls accelerate

5b3155f1a991724028e995864be3a1d49db3d3f636d56fa85e111619453ca47f

Hi,
I got my transaction stuck for almost 2 days now, 0 confirmation...
I would really appreciate some help


-transaction id: d81402c8a26f232075e73cc528e4974cb5cccd7d15d79e40fae9931beccb70c7

-RAW: 01000000022cacc3b5794a5d5ea08dd333e80ca046d54d651bb2fe482148bcebcf668767fe00000 0006a473044022000f4b9e1c010d4a301737c0aa516ca4864b6da3dbdb21cb2d2a6c4de6f4a8b10 02201e112ccec88c5e881f92e11420c1b3644c567a20167c6d3f43fa2f4b65b83ef301210228c19 9867415562baa6d2530876783d3fb8cbbf440b0385d414ebaf7e1d416bdffffffff8138fcca88e7 ddedcaf5d65a049ad42d3286492817cb8179de2ffb98228d84053d0000006a47304402200ecd6a2 0633c595fb9c92c608b76bc790c328a6a2a5cc002b1d6aeb6ad7b73be022039ebe800f4b7a5b4a9 f053a5f5241962a8eefd8e9c290ffc2a3363383968127501210228c199867415562baa6d2530876 783d3fb8cbbf440b0385d414ebaf7e1d416bdffffffff0370170000000000001976a9149ffff887 8f74fe50a8e6441ea5f67079c3648f5f88ac0000000000000000096a0743430215002053c41e070 0000000001976a9142cbee95d593bf6a5d14890c14b1c1eecaa03386988ac00000000

-Sender and receiver (from mycelium wallet to Bitflip exchange)

-My wallet adress: 155bSDATZkQDVyCDQr6m6dTsqbywBekgmN

-Using Mycelium

-Transaction in mempool

-Nothing strange going on, just stuck

-I will increase fee in the futur, I actually put low (11$) fee because in mycelium transaction menu it said "low fee = 2 hours" and it seems ok

transaction id: 6eebbdf83ba79c92484279331efdbec5cfcbbcfd2c3004c04fa817bc454f63e3
sender/receiver: sender and receiver
addresses:  16HwCumQ7jqSZMqqKj9zZ5NqU8E2KBQqWg (the sender address is combination of few address , im not sure which is the core address)
wallet software: bitcoin wallet (bitcoin wallet developer) in apps store
mempool: yes, i have checked http://www.mocacinno.com/page/getraw, entered my transaction id, and i was shown the raw transaction.

could you help me accelerate my tx? its been over 16days 😭

if it wasn't obvious, I'm trying to send BTC (not receive). 

So with a reasonable transaction fee - why wouldn't this have gone through three days ago like my other transactions?  Any ideas?  Is something else at play here?