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bitpay / copay-recovery

A simple client-side app to recover funds from all current and past Copay backups.
https://bitpay.github.io/copay-recovery/
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BIP45 Wallet Worked, Transaction in Limbo #117

Open shawnp0wers opened 6 years ago

shawnp0wers commented 6 years ago

I ran the copy-recovery on my old Copay wallet (BIP45), and it found BCH, created a transaction, and I thought all was well. Unfortunately, the transaction appears to "come and go", meaning the block explorer will say no such transaction, or show the transaction randomly.

Assuming the transaction is in fact valid, and in the mempool, I suspect the EXTREMELY low fee which was applied is the cause for it never confirming. So my questions:

1) Can the fee be increased, or scaled based on size of transaction? My transaction is 31K in size, but only included 0.00001BCH as a fee.

2) Do I need to wait 2 weeks for the transaction to get dropped from the mempool, and then try again? If so, that's fine, but I don't want to have the same thing happen in 2 weeks.

3) What's with the transaction "appearing" and "disappearing" constantly?

shawnp0wers commented 6 years ago

Ha! After several days, the transaction went through!

I actually got the raw transaction and published it on a few other blockchain monitor sites (trezor, btc.com) -- and for whatever reason it did finally get included in a block. That said, it is probably still worth changing the transaction fee.

Feel free to close this, I'm leaving it open so the devs see the fee issue.