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Re: Orphaned Transaction?
by
Coef
on 12/07/2015, 13:07:44 UTC
i wonder why your transaction is in "High Priority" status yet the transaction fee is only .00001 satoshi. btw, there is still 9k+ unconfirmed transaction so maybe your transaction is in the last coz of the transaction fee you paid for the miners

9k unconfirmed transaction? There are 76k as shown on http://bitcoinexchangerate.org/fees.

With so many transactions waiting to be included in the blocks, in which many of them are paying a much higher fee rate than OP's transaction, I don't see OP's transaction getting confirmed in the near future.
IMO the best option would be to create a double-spend transaction with a higher fee.
If you use bitcoin core, you could refer to this old thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=231309.0 for a step-by-step tutorial.
That is quite old and now, reference clients do not relay double spend transactions. They will reject any transactions with inputs matching other transaction in their mempool, whether you pay more fees or not. You have to find a miner which would accept your other transaction or if the miner has already forgotten about your tranaction.

At the beginning, yes, your peer nodes will reject your double-spend transaction because they have your original transaction already in their mempools. But as times goes by, they will drop your original transaction after a few days. So, you should continue rebroadcasting your new transaction until then using https://blockchain.info/pushtx or https://insight.bitpay.com/tx/send.
Or, you could use use -zapwallettxes on your original wallet to create the double-spend transaction, rather than creating a new empty wallet, and it will keep rebroadcasting the new transaction.