Hello, thanks a lot for your advice... I tried using the code and broadcast it to blockchain website & viabtc but both gave me errors. any other suggestion bro?
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Hi,
Because the transaction was only shown on chain.so's block explorer, i missed the fact that this transaction seems to have unconfirmed parents.
As a matter of fact, the person paying you created a long chain of unconfirmed transactions, each of those transactions is using the change of the previous unconfirmed transaction to create a new transaction.
None of the pending transactions have a decent fee... As a matter of fact, all of them are having a fee that's so low they won't get into a block without the receivers intervention.
Your options at this point are really, really, really limited...
1) open the transaction in chain.so, click on "raw data", save the "tx hex". Go back to chain.so's tx overview, click on the "<"-symbol next to the sending address, in the next screen ensure that the previous tx in the chain is unconfirmed and save it's tx hex, repeat untill you find a parent transaction that IS confirmed...
Now, you need to re-broadcast all transactions in the chain, starting with the parent, and working your way up the chain...
As soon as the complete chain is broadcasted, you can use the unconfirmed unspent output in a new transaction with a fee of at least:
(number of unconfirmed parent transactions) * 400 bytes * 380 satoshi's.
Chain.so blocked my ip due to to many requests, but i got to 12 unconfirmed parents before they blocked me... So whoever sent you these funds is going to cost you at VERY least 12 * 400 * 380 sat =~ 0.018 BTC =~ $340
IF there were even more parents, the cost will be even higher
The second option is:
2) contact the sender, tell him to fix his mistake, give him a deadline, expose him as a scammer if he refuses