Topic: Sent A Few Btc Accidentally with no Trnsaction fee Attached - page 2. (Read 3577 times)

Something  you are saying doesn't make sense.

You claim that you are running


But then you say

abandontransaction didn't exist until 0.12.0

Did you upgrade after sending your transaction, or were you actually running the very recent 0.12.0 and not the 0.8.3 that you thought you were running?

Assuming that you are running some version of Bitcoin Core, it will not "drop out of the memory pool at some point and return to my wallet" on its own.  Bitcoin Core is designed to remember the transactions that you have sent and re-braodcast them regularly to remind the rest of the network if they drop the transaction from their memory pool.

If you want your Bitcoin Core to drop the transaction from it's memory pool, you'll need to tell it to do so.

Once option is to run the wallet with the -zapwallettxes command line option.

Another option is to broadcast a different transaction that uses at least one of the same inputs and pays a high enough fee to get confirmed.  Once the new transaction becomes confirmed, your old one will become invalid so your wallet will drop it.

If you want to broadcast a different transaction that uses at least one of the same inputs, I can help you build and broadcast it.  You'll just need to provide the raw transaction.

You can get the raw transaction by running the following in the console:

looking at the details of the transaction:

Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool
Date: 8/29/2016 20:35
To: 1LpZAeJthyUueRwZMjv7K471L7Vyg4Abqv
Debit: -2.90900000 BTC
Net amount: -2.90900000 BTC
Transaction ID: 417b1e741a30571bf27138a965864c27d5bb99c617a7b5864a3d3a24c959b928
Output index: 0

i see that it is in the memory pool. will it drop out of the memory pool at some point and return to my wallet?

sorry, bitkilo. i tried to post it after i realized i hadn't but being a newbie i had to wait 360 seconds to repost and i got lost trying to research it in another thread.

the transaction code is: 417b1e741a30571bf27138a965864c27d5bb99c617a7b5864a3d3a24c959b928

i tried to use the code
in the help>console, but it came back: Invalid or non-wallet transaction id (code -5)

so i'm stumped at this point.

Showing us the transaction might get you the help you need a little quicker.

long story but the short of it is:

i had a very old wallet (0.8.3 i think) and sent a few Btc with what i later discovered to be a o.o transaction fee. it is now stuck i believe. how do i get it unstuck? all help will be greatly appreciated.

also, i am kind of a noob so not sure i will understand tech speak so if it could be explained like i am a five year old, that would be greatly appreciated as well.

TYIA