I have a TX with 6928 confirmations but total balance is still pending - page 2.

DelivMan

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Well I tried "bitcoin-qt -rescan". It went from 1 % to 100% in 10 minutes or so. Not bad at all. But ...

No change in my pending total.

My new wallet has had an total activity of 3 Transaction. First two where transferring the old wallet balance. The third transaction was a test transaction of sending 0.05 BTC to a friends wallet.
The third transaction has 0 confirmations, it was offered to the network with a fee of 0.00000224 BTC. Obviously i was to greedy, because from 20 december up to now (28th of dec) nobody put it in a new blockchain. The transaction id of the third transaction can't be found anymore on Blockchain.info so i guess it is officially dead now.

My line of thinking was to create a new TX (a fourth one) with the option "Request replace by-fee" ticked, sending 0.05 to the same wallet of my friend. But helas... I have insufficient available balance te create a new TX of 0.05. ... Looks like a Catch 22...

My available balance is 0.0002 BTC (my pending balance is still 2. Cool

. Should i try to send my last available balance to get the third TX afloat ? Silently hoping that this will get al of my pending total back to available, or is it something else?

Thanks again! Humble waiting for advice Peter..

bob123

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Quote from: DelivMan on December 29, 2017, 07:55:10 AM

I prefer to understand what's going on.

Can it have anything to do with to transactions i've send from my old wallet (which was with Qt on windows 7) to my new wallet (which is on Linux Mint with Bitcoin Core) ?
On the same evening i started with sending 0.0002 BTC to my new wallet, to see if public keys were correct etc. This transactions has also more than 6000 confirmations. And this transaction is now shown as available balance !

You have quite a strange issue.
But this definetly did not happen because of a specific set-up (regarding sending-/recieving- wallet).
This is most certainly an issue with core. Since your transaction propagated correctly and already got confirmed it surely can't be because of your QT-client.
As LoyceV already mentioned the rescan-command should solve this issue.

LoyceV

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Quote from: DelivMan on December 29, 2017, 07:55:10 AM

I have a processed number of blocks of 501568 (looks like thats up to date (?) )

That is accurate indeed.

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But still there is a pending total of +/- 2.8 BTC
I can try to move the private key to Electrum (thanks for the suggestion!) But i rather do it as last resort.
I prefer to understand what's going on.

I've had some unexpected results too after an upgrade of Bitcoin Core in the past: New install, new version of Bitcoin Core, weird Pending amount [SOLVED].
In my case it wasn't a real transaction going into my wallet.
If 16u1VqPgTnGrAXQreLFBbVoUkgaATeHXKA is part of your receiving addresses, it should show up after a rescan.

I got recommended this:

Code:

bitcoin-qt -zapwallettxes

Full description:

Code:

-zapwallettxes=
   Delete all wallet transactions and only recover those parts of the
   blockchain through -rescan on startup (1 = keep tx meta data e.g.
   account owner and payment request information, 2 = drop tx meta
   data)

I think a rescan is enough, if not, you can always still use zapwallettxes on your wallet. Make a backup first though!

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Can it have anything to do with to transactions i've send from my old wallet (which was with Qt on windows 7) to my new wallet (which is on Linux Mint with Bitcoin Core) ?
On the same evening i started with sending 0.0002 BTC to my new wallet, to see if public keys were correct etc. This transactions has also more than 6000 confirmations. And this transaction is now shown as available balance ! (i would rather have it the other way around Wink

first TX pending second available)

I can't tell you the exact cause, but I've seen wallet.dat files mess up before.

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Final question: can i start rescan from the debug window? Or if that's impossible how do i start a rescan from a linux terminal?

Just do it from a terminal:

Code:

bitcoin -rescan

I'm not sure if "bitcoin" is the default name, or that I created that simlink on my own. You may need to use this:

Code:

bitcoin-qt -rescan

This may take a while Tongue

DelivMan

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Thanks for the answers and suggestions! It feels like a wam bath after a frustrating evening Wink

I have a processed number of blocks of 501568 (looks like thats up to date (?) )
But still there is a pending total of +/- 2.8 BTC
I can try to move the private key to Electrum (thanks for the suggestion!) But i rather do it as last resort.
I prefer to understand what's going on.

Can it have anything to do with to transactions i've send from my old wallet (which was with Qt on windows 7) to my new wallet (which is on Linux Mint with Bitcoin Core) ?
On the same evening i started with sending 0.0002 BTC to my new wallet, to see if public keys were correct etc. This transactions has also more than 6000 confirmations. And this transaction is now shown as available balance ! (i would rather have it the other way around Wink

first TX pending second available)

Final question: can i start rescan from the debug window? Or if that's impossible how do i start a rescan from a linux terminal?

Thanks for helping me out!

Peter

LoyceV

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Quote from: DelivMan on December 28, 2017, 06:47:15 PM

Has anyone ever encountered a situation where a transaction is confirmed (more than 6000 times) but the total balance is still pending?

I suggest you make a backup of your wallet.dat (you should of course have backups already, but make a new one anyway!), and start Bitcoin Core with the -rescan flag on it's command line. See if that makes Bitcoin Core realize it's confirmed already.

Code:

-rescan
Rescan the block chain for missing wallet transactions on startup

Cobalt9317

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I don't know if you can get the privatekey from bitcore and try to sync it in Electrum, it takes a long time to just sync the bitcoin-core qt.

P.S if you can access the funds in any wallet that should be available for spent.

HCP

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Are you sure your Bitcoin Core is fully synced (number of blocks >= 501491)? It should only show pending if it has not synced up to the block that this transaction was confirmed in. You can check the number on blocks in "Help -> Debug Window"

If it IS fully synced, then you probably need to either -rescan or -reindex the wallet... This is likely to take a while. Also, you should probably make a backup of your wallet.dat... -rescan and -reindex should not do anything "bad"™ but better safe than sorry Wink

DelivMan

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Hi,

Has anyone ever encountered a situation where a transaction is confirmed (more than 6000 times) but the total balance is still pending?
The problem occurs with TXid:633f05443310c5012c5a0360299c3627b8d838af1fbe4aa4a4ab20d74521d04b
and a Bitcoin core installation v015.01 64 bit
Could i get my balance to available? I need to pay a friend some BTC...
Bitcoin core blocks a new TX because of "exceeding available limits".

With kind regards,

Peter

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