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This question is related to this post explaining how to use bitcoin-qt to generate a transaction.
Once obtained, I'd like to dispatch it from my system which is running a non-synced node. When issuing sendrawtransaction the following happens:
./bitcoin-cli sendrawtransaction
error code: -26
error message:
non-final
I have two questions related to this
Am I right that this is caused by the fact that my node is not synced?
It certainly could be. The transaction could have a locktime that is in the past in reality, but is in the future from the perspective of the unsynced node.
Is there a way to dispatch the transaction to the BTC network anyway?
Use a node that is synchronized. It doesn't need to be your own; you won't have RPC access to other nodes, but you can use a tool like bitcoin-submittx, or websites like block explorers that permit submitting transactions (possibly though Tor).
