Questions tagged [unconfirmed-transactions]
Transactions that have not yet been included in a block.
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Why is my transaction not getting confirmed and what can I do about it?
I sent a transaction
without (or with an exceptionally small) transaction fee
using extremely small or unconfirmed inputs
while the stars were not standing right.
For whatever reason, I have been ...
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How do transactions leave the memory pool?
How does my bitcoin core client know when to drop a transaction from the memory pool?
Is it as simple as a specific period of time?
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How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with blockchain.info?
I've sent a transaction from blockchain.info, but accidentally included too little fee. What can I do to cancel the transaction or speed up the transaction's confirmation?
This is a complementary ...
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Is it possible to cancel an unconfirmed transaction?
If you submit a transaction to the network but it hasn't yet be confirmed by a block, is it possible to cancel this transaction?
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How to unstuck a low-fee transaction with Electrum?
I've sent a transaction with Electrum, but accidentally included too little fee. What can I do to speed up the transaction's confirmation or to replace it?
This is a complementary question to Why is ...
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Is it possible to add a miner's fee after you send your bitcoins?
I accidentally sent a transaction without a miner's fee and I need it to clear as soon as possible. But, as far as I can tell it's going to take days if it goes through at all. Is there any way that I ...
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Do unconfirmed transactions expire?
Do they just sit there unconfirmed (e.g. when you be evil and don't pay a tx fee) forever? Or do they get deleted after a few days?
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Transactions seen by peers, but not confirming
I have an old MultiBit wallet (v. 05.16) and within the last month I have experienced delays when transferring bitcoin. Some transfers have been seen by 2 peers and some by 6 peers, but none have ...
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Do unconfirmed transactions expire after some time?
Sometimes confirmation process is very slow. I think that is because of the price of the fee. In that time, is it possible to cancel the unconfirmed transaction and re-send with higher transaction fee?...
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How do you apply "-zapwallettxes" on Windows?
On May 27 I tried to sell some Bitcoins(for the first time). Since that day the transaction is in the status "unconfirmed". The amount is booked from my wallet, but isn't booked to my bank account.
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Why doesn't the protocol allow unconfirmed transactions to expire at a given height?
Transactions with low fees may remain in the mempool for as long as 14 days. This indeterminism is a source of confusion for users and wallets. It's not possible to cause a transaction in the mempool ...
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How do I get rid of an unconfirmed transaction on Bitcoin Core 0.14.1?
Can somebody please help me? I have been trying to send .045 Bitcoins (approx $120 USD)
I am using Bitcoin Core.
I have tried to get rid of the unconfirmed transaction by using -zapwallettxes ...
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What happens if your transaction is never confirmed?
If I have a low amount and don't include a fee, the transaction takes forever to get confirmed. What happens if it never gets confirmed? Can the wallet that I sent it to still spend the money?
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Replace-by-Fee vs Child-pays-for-Parent?
Both RBF and CPFP attempt to solve the problem of transactions not confirming because of an insufficient fee. What are the pros/cons of using one vs the other?
Are both currently functional and ...
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who attaches dependent transactions? Sender or receiver
I am wondering who can attach dependent transactions to a transaction not confirmed and is in the Mempool.
Is that the sender or the receiver?
Assume Alice wants to send 20 BTC to Bob. Her transaction ...
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Can someone outline the full pros/cons of the various Replace-By-Fee proposals?
I've done some research myself, but I find that I'm either biased myself, or my sources themselves are biased. Does anyone have an objective analysis of the various proposals and their advantages/...
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Why is the transaction priority removed?
As far as I know, in the earlier version of Bitcoin, there was a mechanism about transaction priorities. However, it has been removed (or not being taken into account anymore) and now the only ...
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Is it possible to spend an output that hasn't yet been confirmed?
From something I noticed in this thread: Unconfirmed BTC
MtGox will send a transaction to spend one of the outputs of a transaction that hasn't yet been confirmed.
Is it possible for both of the ...
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Multibit HD 0.5.1 with Unconfirmed transactions for months now
Multibit HD 0.5.1
This is my wallet's transaction list and amount:
I am having the following issues:
I don't understand why do I have 0.07btc ~ 224.59$ unconfirmed for a month by now.
I have three ...
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How can I change the inputs and fee of an unconfirmed Bitcoin transaction?
I have a 3 days old unconfirmed Bitcoin transaction that has 13 inputs, 2 outputs and a low fee.
I want to remove the small value inputs because as it increases the size, it also increases the minimum ...
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Transaction still unconfirmed [duplicate]
I sent some money 3 hours ago my BTC client (Bitcoin Core) still says the payment is unconfirmed ?.
Any help much appriciated
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How to unstuck a low-fee transaction sent from MultiBit?
I've sent a transaction with MultiBit Classic or MultiBit HD, but accidentally included too little fee. What can I do to speed up the transaction's confirmation or to replace it?
This is a ...
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How confirm my own doublespend transaction got confirmed
Transactions in the testnet are right now almost always double spent with a new txid (possible due to tx malleability). This is actually quite nice for testing purposes.
So I'm wondering - when I ...
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Looking for a tool that gives a score based on the likely hood of a 0-confirm deposit being douple spent
I know there is gap600, but it's proprietary, closed source and most likely expensive. If there is an open source free solution then please let me know.
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Transaction unconfirmed for hours [duplicate]
I need any help you can provide me regarding the transaction ea36f903db582e5b87c3618208cae2b28957521b8567f5d7934fc8b47a663bd8
It has been unconfirmed for more than 6 hours and I don't know what to do....
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I think I found 241 Bitcoin [closed]
I have been having dreams for the past month about BTC and an old computer I had bought Bitcoin on a long, long time ago. I just found said computer in my grandmother's basement. Booted it up and lo ...
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Is it possible to view unconfirmed transactions with the bitcoin client?
This site shows you unconfirmed bitcoin transactions:
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
As I understand it, these unconfirmed transactions are received and rebroadcast by every bitcoin ...
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What happens to transactions in the mempool when their parent transaction expires?
I was just reading the Coin Metrics Newsletter #53, and it included a section about the recent mempool congestion. After mentioning transactions that got evicted due to the network's queue of ...
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How does an SPV node verify an unconfirmed transaction?
Alice pays Bob 1 BTC with a simple pay-to-address type transaction. Three seconds after Alice broadcasts her transaction, Bob's Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) wallet displays a message saying ...
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Unconfirmed transaction for 2 days despite network fees, rescans and redownload
I made a transaction 2 days ago, (using BitcoinQT 0.8.1-beta on MacOS X) that didn't propagate. I can't find the transaction on blockexplorer or blockchain.info (or anywhere else for that matter) yet. ...
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bitcoind getrawmempool without downloading the full blockchain
I'm running bitcoind from a small virtual machine on digitialocean.
I'm interested only in looking at the new transactions in bitcoind getrawmempool
Is there a way to get these transactions without ...
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Can transaction inputs reference outputs of pending transactions?
The inputs of a transaction reference outputs of previous transactions. These previous transactions
must already be present in the block chain, or
can also be pending transactions?
I don't know if ...
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How does a wallet use unconfirmed outputs as inputs after unconfirmed transactions?
I have 10 btc on address A.
Using raw transaction, I send 5btc from A to B and set the change address as A itself. Now because the transaction from A to B is not confirmed I can't spend the remaining ...
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Coinbase to Block Chain Transfer Delay
I recently sent a friend of mine around $950 in BTC from Coinbase to his BTC wallet on BlockChain.info.
The transaction is showing up as completed in my account, but he claims he has not received the ...
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Does descendant size affect transaction fees?
While calculating the transaction fee miners usually take ancestor size into the account. But does the descendant/output also affect the transaction fee calculation? Is descendant count correlated to ...
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Why is the wtxid considered malleable?
Why is the wtxid considered malleable since the transaction is unconfirmed?
How can a third-party modify it?
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Any way to delete unconfirmed transaction? [duplicate]
Recently I sent some bitcoins without adding a fee and now, it's been taking too long. Is there any way I can recover my bitcoins? I want to delete my unconfirmed transactions from Blockchain.info?
I ...
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Sent bitcoin with no fee, waited and bitcoins disappeared
I sent about $425 to an adress from my bitcoin-qt wallet and forgot to include a fee. So I googled and googled and waited around for 4 or 5 days for it to stop broadcasting but I get on my computer ...
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Found an old wallet with transaction history with coins (unconfirmed), but no balance [duplicate]
I have found an old bitcoin wallet in my files. I can see there are old transactions but they aren't confirmed. But there should be more BTC received than was sent, so there should be a balance. Is ...
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Why can’t lightning tx’s be signed with sighash single to allow for fee updates?
Are out-of-band fee payments to confirm a lightning closing transaction the only way to manage a situation where the sat/kw of a previously signed commitment tx are simply below market?
If additional ...
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Spending unconfirmed output from a change address
Consider a custom program which will occasionally need to send out bitcoin to users to whom I owe money.
Let's say I have 100 unspent BTC at address ADDR_A.
UserX demands payment of 1 BTC to ADDR_X. ...
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Stuck transactions [duplicate]
I tried to send some bitcoins 2 days ago and they have sat there 0 confirmations - I guess because of 'dust' from faucets included in there.
I think I specified default transaction fee but obviously ...
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Do we put all the transactions in the memory pool?
I wonder if orphan transactions are also stored in the memory pool? If yes, how do the Bitcoin client distinguish between the orphan and non-orphan transactions?
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How did these zero-transaction fee transactions make it into the Bitcoin network?
I thought someone said in this forum that the Bitcoin network screens out zero transaction fee-transactions because they are "dust" transactions and if anyone could submit zero-transaction-fee ...
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I sent out a payment over a day ago and it's still not confirmed [duplicate]
https://blockchain.info/tx/3b047ef34fcd283ce57868dedb80eb239970ded1aeb10c0fe3a39360dc822056
https://blockchain.info/tx/2a774b4a29a498f95aeb8fd256c36404118fce1157aea976a3fcfe0f29a6918c
Electrum won't ...
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Found old Bitcoin wallet of mine, but has unconfirmed transactions from 2013
I found one of my old wallets.dat from way back, so I loaded it up and see that I had transactions but they never got confirmed. I can't remember if I just never let them run? But how would it be ...
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Do all block explorers show all unconfirmed transactions?
If I want to show someone that I just made a transaction without showing them my wallet, could I expect that it would be recorded on a block explorer immediately?
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Transferring bitcoins out of an old multibit wallet
A few years ago I bought bitcoins and I've kept it in a Multibit 0.5.15 (Mac OSX) wallet. Now I want to either sell thes bitcoins or send it to a different wallet. I already made a transfer but since ...
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Is it possible to confirm a specific transaction with your own miner?
I sent a Bitcoin transaction a few days ago and it still doesn't have any confirmations.
I actually have a ASIC miner.
Is it possible to confirm a specific transaction, in this case mine, with my ...
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Unconfirmed BTC [duplicate]
Can anyone tell me how to fix BTC that seems stuck as unconfirmed?
Here is the blockchain info:
https://blockchain.info/tx/37ffff757d1735a8c4fe96a0ee63a7d797e9bc5a858b7a60f81eaf935bee5709?show_adv=...
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