Invalid bitcon transaction refundable?

philipma1957

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Quote from: pcasey7803 on April 28, 2017, 04:32:12 PM

I am new to bitcoin. I have sent 2 seperate bitcoin payments to one vendor and other to myself changing wallets. The vendor website shows the transaction as invalid, and shows unconfirmed in my wallet. I sent my remaining coins to myself in a new wallet, and this still has not been confirmed going on 2 days now. I was using blockchain as my wallet but read they are having major problems with confirmation. I contacted the vendor and asked what the steps were for having the bitcoins returned to me since they show it as invalid. I have not heard from them and wonder if anyone else has had this problem. I though bitcoin was suppose to be a easy safe way to send money. Seems to me to be very very insecure.

your post is basically worthless..

The answers given so far are not that helpful

Why Why Why?

post the btc addy :
https://blockchain.info/address/1JdC6Xg3ajT3rge3FgPNSYYFpmf53Vbtje

post the tx id :

https://blockchain.info/tx/a9e5ea6b63890d25d61b6e3a5f042f93f6d31c8b2237f608c3b2f523ff435bc1

you should have the info somewhere.

BTW blockchain.info does have some issues as it does not force you to pay fees that are high enough and transactions get stuck.

I could help speed your transactions for free If you posted the tx id.

nahtnam

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Going on top of what ^ they said, I would recommend BitPay wallet. It's very easy to use if you are new to bitcoin, but you still hold and control all of your bitcoin like blockchain.info.

cloverme

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I'm in agreement with achow101, blockchain.info is not a good provider to use as a wallet. Bitcoin itself is very secure, but often the appearance of insecurity is within its implementation of services around it (such as mt gox, etc). In general, you're better off with bitcoin-qt or trezor as a wallet.

Post some of the transaction information and the community might be able to help you out.

achow101

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The problem likely has to do with blockchain.info's poorly written wallet. They often have issues with accidental double spends and spending unconfirmed funds.

Can you please post the transaction ids of the transactions in question so that we can see what is wrong with them?

Quote from: pcasey7803 on April 28, 2017, 04:32:12 PM

I though bitcoin was suppose to be a easy safe way to send money. Seems to me to be very very insecure.

Bitcoin itself is not insecure. The insecurity lies with wallet providers and wallet developers when they make poorly written wallets, like blockchain.info. As I said earlier, blockchain.info frequently has issues that can be extremely confusing to their users. I highly recommend that you stop using them and switch to a desktop wallet such as Electrum, Multibit, Armory, or Bitcoin Core. Any wallet listed on https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet is considered reputable and won't have such issues as you are facing (notice how blockchain.info is not listed on that site).

pcasey7803

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I am new to bitcoin. I have sent 2 seperate bitcoin payments to one vendor and other to myself changing wallets. The vendor website shows the transaction as invalid, and shows unconfirmed in my wallet. I sent my remaining coins to myself in a new wallet, and this still has not been confirmed going on 2 days now. I was using blockchain as my wallet but read they are having major problems with confirmation. I contacted the vendor and asked what the steps were for having the bitcoins returned to me since they show it as invalid. I have not heard from them and wonder if anyone else has had this problem. I though bitcoin was suppose to be a easy safe way to send money. Seems to me to be very very insecure.

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