Inbound transactions only. No outbound. No pending balance. No receiving addresses(!!!)
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The three transactions show correctly in the transactions tab. The Transaction info gives an ID that does not show on the blockchain. The status on all 3 transactions is: Status: 0/unconfirmed, not in memory pool
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I've come to accept the fact that my wallet appears to be screwed, or something, and the coins will probably not be recoverable
Did you make a new backup of your wallet.dat before starting it, so you can try to recover from the "untouched" wallet?Quote
What I would at least like to know, is if anyone can give an explanation of what happened here. Back in 2013 transactions didn't take a long time to confirm. I can't understand how there are several days between the transactions but yet none of them are confirmed at all in the wallet. Zero shows in the available and the pending transactions.
We can only guess what happened. One way or another, the address didn't receive any confirmations. Are the received amounts the same on all 3 transactions?Quote
I find it even harder to believe that the first transaction wouldn't have been confirmed or rejected by the time that the third transaction had happened several days later!
As far as I know, Bitcoin Core doesn't drop transactions, unless you give a specific command to do so, even if they never confirm.