My BTCs are lost?

[excepticons]

Hi. I sent some BTC using MultiBit HD and I get this message:

Low spendable balance detected. some of your bitcoins are tied up with ongoing transactions

Details of my transaction are:

Status: X Waiting for feedback about this transaction from the Bitcoin network
Type: Sending
Transaction ID: 19426f53d27b06918b874a4e34e467af7dd0e7278587746c04a7396d43ecd6e6
Status message: This transaction did not pay bitcoins to any payment request

Please, what happened? I have lost my BTCs? The receiver has not received the BTCs that I have sent to him. My wallet no longer has the value that I have sent.

Please, your comments and help to understand.

Thanks.

Gustavo

[WeaverTL]

@excepticons I've looked up your transaction on blockchain.info and I think your fee is probably to low (12sat/byte) thats why is isn't comming through . I don't know if Multibit allows you to raise the fee afterwards like Electrum does, but that should fix your stuck transaction.

Sites like https://bitcoinfees.21.co can give you a rough estimate of the fee to use so transactions won't get stuck.

[jeffcirceo]

I looked up your transaction and it looks like you're not going to see the coin anytime soon and will need to wait for bitcoin to stop trading so much.

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/19426f53d27b06918b874a4e34e467af7dd0e7278587746c04a7396d43ecd6e6

shows Total Inputs 0.00328895 BTC Total Outputs 0.00308895 BTC Fee 0.00020000 BTC Fee / KB 0.00012853 BTC Size 1,556 bytes Estimated Change 0.00008895 BTC

https://btc.com/ is currently showing the current best transaction fees to be 0.00308 BTC/KB

Sorry but I think you should create a new wallet and deposit more money if you need to send coin soon. Also choose a wallet that automatically calculates transaction fees so you don't end up in the same situation again.

exodus is a nice looking wallet that calculates fees for you but I haven't used it beyond installing it. (my coin is tied up by two small stupid transactions) https://www.exodus.io/

[WeaverTL]

@jeffcirceo There are ways of speeding up stuck transactions and some wallets will do this for you (Electrum for example).

[jeffcirceo]

@WeaverTL can you point me towards anything online on how to speed up a stuck transaction? I've downloaded and installed Electrum and am playing with wallet restore ideas from multibit and not getting anywhere.

[WeaverTL]

I don't have any experience with with speeding up transactions myself, Electrum has always taken care of that for me. This article however does seem to cover it quite extensively [https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/what-to-do-if-your-bitcoin-transaction-gets-stuck-1481042383/]