Quote from: LoyceV on December 09, 2017, 02:59:55 PM

Quote from: kcsunshine on December 09, 2017, 01:42:08 PM

To provide insite to this thread, I will add that the transaction was sent from a coinomi wallet, and if I am correct, they use shapeshift.

How did this happen exactly? Was it someone at your house, showing you his wallet? I've heard about fake banking apps (in the Netherlands), used to pretend to pay someone when buying goods. A fake Bitcoin app would be new to me.

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This transaction looked perfectly normal especially right after it was transmitted, because the negative balance did not show up until the next day!!!

The negative balance on blockchain.info only happened when they made the second payment (the real payment).

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One would have assumed that this would have eventually confirmed, but it was never going to!!!

With the current high fees I wouldn't assume it confirms before it's dropped from mempool. I have an outgoing unconfirmed transaction for 3 days now, I'm curious to see if it gets dropped (in which case I'll rebroadcast it) or that it just stays unconfirmed until it confirms.

It's a friend. He claims that he initiated the transaction from his coinomi wallet and that all of a sudden the funds appeared back in his wallet for some reason, and then he tried to send them out to a different address. to be clear, i did not get ripped off, and the only reason that I am wondering about this, is because I have never seen this before. I buy a lot of btc from strangers, and once i see the transaction coming, i check the fee, make sure it's unspent, and then i pay them without the tx getting confirmed. In this case I would have been burnt.

The second payment registers a day later. It is still unexplained why the funds came back, and as someone stated here as well, the first tx only shows up on blockchain.info. It no longer shows on any other block explorer and may never have, not sure.