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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Need help with expired transaction
by
ranochigo
on 29/12/2017, 05:51:09 UTC
Thanks.

Not in any hurry. If I could just even get it back to my blockchain wallet that would be fine until the fees settle down. No need for the funds right now or any time soon.

"If you're not in a hurry, you can just wait until the transaction is dropped and Electrum allows you to make a new transaction."

How long does that take? It has been 21 days and the block trail thing shows it removed /expired.
If someone else is rebroadcasting the transaction continuously, the chance of it getting removed from the mempool is zero. If not, it would be removed within 2 weeks, as per the specification of the reference implementation.

That being said, Blockchain.info seems to keep transactions in their mempool longer than other nodes do. You can try switching the Electrum server and hope that one of the servers has dropped your transaction already.