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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Abandoning a transaction
by
evan79
on 03/01/2018, 13:19:37 UTC
Hi

Hoping someone can assist me, I have the below transaction which is unconfirmed, have tried broadcasting numerous times and others have too and accelerating it with no success and i understand it may never be confirmed due to the size vs fee, my questions are, if i abandon the transaction as per below steps and when my wallet (Bitcoin core Knots 0.15.1) restarts again as normal without the step 2 command so my wallet is broadcasting again that when my wallet re-syncs with the block chain the unconfirmed transaction will not re-appear in my wallet and that my wallet will not try to re-send the transaction again?

I don`t wish to advise my TX ID as i want to stop trying to broadcast it, i don`t wish to try to re-send with higher fee either i just want the BTC returned to my wallet, i understand this may take some time until all the nodes drop my TX from their mempools.

Total Inputs   0.03266100 BTC
Total Outputs   0.03166006 BTC
Fee   0.00100094 BTC
Fee / KB   0.00008436 BTC
Size   11,865 bytes

Abandon transaction steps
1 - Delete mempool file from bitcoin code directory
2 - Start bitcoin with -walletboradcast=0
3 - Once bitcoin started i right-click transaction and and i choose abandon transaction
4 - Turn wallet off and restart

Thanks in advance