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Board Web Wallets
Re: blockchain.info wallet negative balance?
by
DarkRavenGamer
on 04/10/2015, 17:36:51 UTC
Something very strange happened today. blockchain.info let me send 1.48 BTC when I only had 0.6.  I had a incoming transaction of 1 BTC. For some reason it made the sending transaction twice (received and sent BTC in the same block) and it is displayed as unconfirmed and my balance is negative.

screenshot: https://i.gyazo.com/ea177ad2f4f3bd0ef39bb2be6500712a.png

Can I remove the unconfirmed transaction? Why did it send twice?

It did not send it twice, but the transaction you send (A) was modified along the way by a node. This create transaction B that spends the same coins and sends them to the same address as A, but has a different transaction ID. This is called a "malleabiltiy attack" and can be fixed by contacting blockchain.infos support. Only A or B can confirm never both.

More here -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1198032.0


I see. So there is someone doing this on purpose? For what reason?