Topic: Unconfirmed Transaction (send). How to Return to Wallet? (Read 12780 times)

As far as I'm aware, there is no easy way to be able to identify which wallet/platform/site an address is linked to. That is to say, there is no "global directory" etc. At best you can put the address into Google and see if it pops up any results relating to a particular website (unlikely)... or you can try searching for that address on a block explorer and see if any of the transaction history triggers your memory as to what wallet/site it might be from.


This is impossible... there is no way to reverse transactions.

Using faucet hub i withdrew 2000 doge coins. Faucet hub being a micro wallet i had several different addresses per coin. My problem is now i cant find my 2000 doge coins? I dont know which platform or site that particular doge address is linked to. How can i find out where my doge address goes to or how to reverse the transaction?

I know everyone likes to vilify the miners and make them the "Bad Guys"™ but it is other BTC users driving up the fees, specifically the ones willing to pay more than you to get their transaction confirmed. The miners just take the highest fees on offer, can't blame them really...

if someone offered you $10 to do a job, and someone else offered $100 which would you take?

That did the job! Just had to: "shutdown Bitcoin Core, restart it from command prompt using the "-walletbroadcast=0" option...then right click the transaction and select "abandon transaction" from the popup menu. Shutdown, and restart Bitcoin Core WITHOUT the walletbroadcast option"
Those miners are killing Bitcoin. Now I am not sure what fee to put, thinking to exchange all my BTC to ETH or DASH or something...
Thank You very much!
edit: strange, after wallet restart I saw my btc back. closed wallet. started again after hour and same transaction with low fee was on again!
So I repeated same procedure  and now am waiting it to be dropped from mempool (again) 

No, wallet.dat is ONLY useful for Bitcoin Core (Bitcoin-QT)... as far as I'm aware, no other wallet will be able to read/write to wallet.dat without causing issues.

To abandon the transaction, you may need to shutdown Bitcoin Core, restart it using the "-walletbroadcast=0" option... and then you should be able to right click the transaction and select "abandon transaction" from the popup menu. Shutdown, and restart Bitcoin Core WITHOUT the walletbroadcast option

Thanks for reply!
How to abandon the transaction ( now I want to try one by one ) ?
Is it ok to use wallet.dat on a new wallet?

Unfortunately yes... Bitcoin fees have gone through the roof   The Bitcoin ecosystem is a LOT different to 4 years ago... long gone are the days of sending transactions for 1c

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ and https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx are both showing 500+ sats/byte...  Seems the number of unconfirmed transactions is still around 40,000+... which is down from the 100,000+ a week or two ago... but the "size" of the mempool is relatively stable at 120-130 megabytes... seems people are trying to push very large transactions through!

Transaction Count: https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-count?timespan=30days
Data Size: https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=30days

Ok I've recovered my transaction. But is this for real 20$ fee?

MultibitHD. I didn't know it wasnt supported anymore, I'm back in business after 4 years.

Were you trying to send from MultiBit Classic or MultiBit HD?

In any case, you should really read this: https://multibit.org/blog/2017/07/26/multibit-shutdown.html

And STOP USING MULTIBIT! It is old, outdated, full of bugs and there is no more development or support! Follow the YouTube videos to learn how to migrate your wallet to Electrum (https://electrum.org/#download).

Just make sure you get Electrum v3.0.5!

Yesterday I made a transaction and I got this error: Waiting for feedback about this transaction from the Bitcoin network

Now I have this situation:



And blockchain gives as there is no transaction: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/4cf13141498e7a31e769329323bb741df974c5afdedac7f46569930b3b432e04

What to do?

Your transaction is not showing on ANY blockexplorers that I can see (aside from chain.so)... so it looks like the transaction has been dropped by the majority of nodes. If this is the case, then you should be able to create a new transaction.

Can you abandon the transaction? If that doesn't work, try "-walletbroadcast=0"... if you still can't abandon the transaction...

Then you may need to try the "-zapwallettxes, -rescan" method of removing the transaction from your wallet (-zapwallettxes will actually remove ALL txes from your wallet, so I'd suggest taking a backup of your wallet.dat first should you run into any issues with zapwallet and rescan)

Hi people
I have unconfirmed transaction from Core 14.0 for 30+ days. Low fee ( bad counting zeroes ).
3b7e650b41f8a156a222d788268a83eb7a1c8311cf563bbf246f798bf02d094c
Any help? How can I get it dropped or through (I was sending it to myself) ?

It could be anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks (or longer)... there is not set time for any node to drop a transaction from it's mempool... the default used to be 3 days (72 hours)... this was changed from around Bitcoin Core v13 or v14 to 14 days I believe... however, node owners are free to choose any value they like.

In addition, if the wallet (or anyone else) keeps rebroadcasting the transactions, theoretically, the transaction might never disappear.

If you're in contact with the online wallet people... tell them to start sending transactions with proper fees

Thks for reply
May i know how long does it take for blockchain to reject the tx n to return the  btc to sender?
Becos the online wallet replied saying that if is rejected by blockchain,i can apply for withdrawal again.

Your transaction is at the end of a VERY long chain of unconfirmed transactions... I gave up counting after I got to about 25-30

I'm not sure where you received these coins from, but whatever "online wallet" it was is pretty shit. Instead of batching up withdrawals and sending them all in one hit, they simply use previously unconfirmed outputs and to top it off... the average fee they seem to have used is about 80-90 sats/byte   When recommmended fees have been 500+ for like two weeks!

It is going to take a LONG time for that transaction to confirm... and unless you feel like doing a CPFP to cover every single one of those unconfirmed transactions (which is likely to cost you something like 1 BTC in fees ) then there is precisely ZERO you can do to get that transaction confirmed.

Seriously consider NEVER using that online service again... it is broken.

1cffa813d8e71925d1c97fb059e92b16f1d95f5a89c05597bb4ade86efcff104

This the hash of my tx. I m a receiver from a withdrawal of an online wallet. Been 9 days. Unconfirmed parents. Zero confirmation. Wad can I do. Need it desperately.

If it stays unconfirmed long enough... maybe up to 2 weeks to fully drop, assuming your wallet is not rebroadcasting the transaction. Then, effectively, the coins will "return" to your wallet.

With a fee that low... and currently 100,000+ unconfirmed transactions... it will take days if not weeks before your transaction is confirmed.


No. Don't worry, the transaction will confirm or the coins will come back... it could just take a long time.


Also, you should stop using MultiBit as it is no longer developed or supported... and it is very old and outdated and has a lot of potentially disastrous bugs. Please read: https://www.multibit.org and follow the link to the Blog post explaining your options.

I would recommend that you seriously consider migrating to Electrum (https://electrum.org/#download)


Your fees are at least 10 sats/byte, so you should be able to use ViaBTC Transaction accelerator... and/or confirmtx.com. Start with this one first: 4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d

Once it is confirmed, then try accelerating the other transaction.


EDIT: Ok... so I accelerated 4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d and it now has been confirmed... I'll try and accelerate your other one when I get a chance

you're welcome


EDIT2: and now 221980229e58bdd1a3d9ec3cf76d0b727cc5cab750a75f286fdd659d1ab38641 is accelerated... it should pick up a confirmation in an hour or 3

aaaaaaannnnnnnnnnd Confirmed!

hello i have this transaction unconfirmed cause low transaction fee.

can i have it back on my wallet?
how many days need to confirm or cancel the transaction?

i lose my money?

the tx id are:
221980229e58bdd1a3d9ec3cf76d0b727cc5cab750a75f286fdd659d1ab38641
4f4c534efbfdb53398d0d9cba461abde74e2c635a88a5ecee8f7cdb0d70c6f0d

thank u

Thank you very much Lady Royal,

This worked totally!!

Kind regards,

Miguel

Please next time try to use higher fee at least 450 satoshis/byte. You can try to add your transaction in ViaBtc accelarator. They add 100 transactions every hour but it get filled very quickly. The time ViaBtc using is UTC. So, Whenever the hour clicks try to add your transaction. Here is the link good luck.

If you are unable to add then email them it is paid service.

Hey Guys,

I have a similar problem. Due to my ignorance, I send coins to an adress without sufficient miners fee. My Multibit wallet classic only supported 0.0001 BTC and I didn't know better. Now I'm waiting for almost a week now. This is the block chain info: https://blockchain.info/tx-index/d22c630c662a0506fb8420723c15c9d1926fa34ec33e68af4583a10a75b0cdc5


Is there anyone that can help me. I thank you in advance! Kind regards, Miguel

Firstly, MultiBit Classic is old and outdated and no longer maintained or developed. It uses a "fixed limit" fee system that is no longer suitable for the current Bitcoin network. Current fees are well in excess of 200 sats/byte... Classic has a max possible fee of around 50 sats/byte I believe.

You should move to a more up to date wallet, preferably one that has "Dynamic Fees". DO NOT use MultiBit HD at the moment, it has a big bug that can prevent you from opening your wallet. I would recommend Electrum.

As for your current issue, your best bet is to export your private keys from MBClassic and then shut it down and don't open it again. Once your transaction has either confirmed (try ViaBTC TX Accelerator) or it has dropped from the network, then import your keys into Electrum, it should show your correct balance.

I have a transaction that is now 7 days unconfirmed and I'm pretty sure I upped the fee.    ON top of that the wallet I used, Multibit has the bulk of my btc unconfirmed and no matter how many times I repair my wallet it does not confirm my money.

I don't know if the two are related but I'm not kidding I'm on 7 days uncomfirmed.  The transaction by the seller has already been cancelled and I don't want it anymore.  At what point will someone say forget this, and let it get back to my wallet.

Between this and my wallet being stuck I can do nothing.

Thanks.

hi im having all sorts of issues i have 2 transactions one with a lower fee which has remained unconfirmed for 36 hours so far and 1 with a high fee still unconfirmed fired 12 hours. can any one shed some light on why these transactions are not going through and what i may be able to do. im sending them frm coinbin. the second transaction i had imported my wallet into blockchain then sent hoping that might produce a better result but it all seem to be stuck.

the first transactiion is:
https://blockchain.info/tx/232ae59ff6f10cfc973410075eba7140f2a6f22c835d2dbb0fd9fd648083e294

the second is
https://blockchain.info/tx/ecae717a26183b1d5609e29b927095a36bd4227c7614e7c70f5e310e56c80762
thanks

Welcome to the artificial fee “market” on a good [block space], with a perfectly inelastic supply curve... brought to you by Blockstream.

Tell your friends.

Yeah, I see it now. Took over 16 hours.   Now I have to deal with a refund..and ended up having to pay with a CC for a Newegg purchase.  There is no way they could of "held up" this transaction on purpose is there? (Bitpay) Now they have my money and will give me a gift card instead of cash back (newegg)..argh.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/732926b40f4368755c9b5492637cfddc5c64cd1979938e90670d7c92afbe1261

That link says its got 5 confirmations now so it seems like you won't have to go into the gory details of how to do a double spend or wait for days longer.

edit/

I checked again and it's now got six confirmations after being included in a block 17 minutes ago.

I have only experience with Bitcoin Core client, but it might be similar to multibit. If you want "cancel" transaction, do not ever run the wallet connected to internet, because your unconfirmed transactions are resend every hour or so. You need find way how to remove the unconfirmed transaction from multibit when your not connected to internet - check help cli commands. You need to hope your transaction not confirm, in few days it should be removed from most miner mempools - check on blockchain.info, they keep not rebroadcasted transactions 2 days only. There is chance the transaction can be added anytime in future if it happens some miner remember your transaction, so spend the inputs again (after unconfirmed transaction is removed from blockchain.info) to prevent this.

Better wallet is a good solution, Electrum is a wallet just like MUltibit 0.5.19 but which has many addresses to use by default, also another feature of Electrum is it automatically adjust fees to the best recommended so it will confirm in max 3-4 hours nowadays , but usually within 30 min time. Its also very easy to use and as secure as Multibit if not more.

Can I see my "satoshi per byte" before I send somehow? There is a slider in multibit wallet which was set to "Default" transaction fee for this transaction.  I did increase it now, but do not understand exactly what I am doing.  Maybe recommend a better wallet or any other help would be appreciated.  As for the transaction, I will "wait and see".  Looks like it will work itself out either way.

Your transaction was 1701 bytes, your fee was 20,000 satoshi, this works out to 11.76 satoshi/byte. A few weeks ago this would have confirmed, maybe not immediately, but it would confirm.

Now, we're looking at blocks that have 40 to 100 satoshi/byte... so there's a chance this'll never confirm. After 72 hours it will be dropped from the mempool and you can try again with 6X the fees...

You may consider using a wallet that is better able to outbid the others that are trying to use Bitcoin.

I have been able to re send by deleting my wallet.dat and uploading a back up.  I use core though.

I just want to also point out that even when taking hours to confirm, I have yet to have made a transaction that *never* confirmed. I don't think it is something to worry about if using any of the big clients that automatically include fees.

I had several transactions get stuck for hours using the Bitcoin Core client. Seems like it calculate fees badly, assuming higher amount transactions will get processed in the queue quicker. But I don't see any reason for miners to care about anything other than the actual size in kb and fees!

double spend will be hard, unless you have a tool to do a double spend.
your best bet would be to contact bitpay support
the TX will probably confirm in a few more hours and then they will have to send it back to you.

if it doesn't confrim for days the TX will be dropped by the network and it will be as tho you never sent it

Wait until your TX goes through if it doesn't it will be canceled in a few days. Sometimes these things happens.

It was sent last night around 9:25 PM (May 26th). So it has been about 14 hours. 

Its weird but still dont confirm yet.. how many hours do you send it just to confirmware if the time there is the same as the time here its may 27 but here in my may 28..
Better to wait more 3 hours and it should be have  confirmation even 1 confirmation..
and also theres no gui or way to recover back the bitcoin in your wallet if its not confirm bitcoin will not stay there it will back to your wallet..

How exactly do I setup the double spend transaction?  I am a bit confused on this operation.  There are three fields I fill out during a send 1) Amount, 2) label, 3) address .  The transaction fee is injected by Multibit.  How exactly should I populate the double spend ? Also, do I need to send from the same computer or any computer with a copy of my wallet? (one runs multibit .5.18, the other is running version .5.19)

0.0002 Btc fee is enough, give it some time to process.

Or, do a double spend, easiest with the private key.

I send a payment , which was received, but never confirmed.  It is still in the unconfirmed state for whatever reason and looks like it will never go through.  I  have heard there is a method of sending the same amount to yourself to get it be realized in your wallet again.  Could someone tell me specifically how to do this?  Here it is on the block chain:

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/732926b40f4368755c9b5492637cfddc5c64cd1979938e90670d7c92afbe1261  or here:
https://blockexplorer.com/tx/732926b40f4368755c9b5492637cfddc5c64cd1979938e90670d7c92afbe1261

The exact amount sent was .576352 BTC

I have never had this happen before, and obviously want it back in my wallet since I ended up having to pay using a CC instead.  This was a bitpay transaction to Newegg.
I used multibit classic .5.19 which should work, but it was the first time I had tried to send from a particular computer.

Any help would be appreciated.  I have read that in the worst case, even though there is no "expiration" but eventually it may come back to my wallet  ?