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Re: negaitve balance BTC??
by
jackg
on 08/02/2018, 11:42:14 UTC
What schould we do if we have negative blance BTC ?
Is there anybody as collector ? ))
If it's on bitcoin core then no one can enforce anything as it's not actually negative. It just looks like it is from that part.

If it's on an exchange then it's unlikely but possible they might try something to resolve it.
Hello,

I sometimes see addresses with negative balance..  like -0.05 BTC
I don't understand how it possible.
Where can I read about this features?

Thanks.

Can we get a screenshot of this?

I found similar thread at 2014..
Please see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=749108.0

I agree that is double spend transaction.


Was the bug not resolved as the double spend was though?

Resolved. Electrum use double spend for increase fees.
blockchain.info showed old transactions.. After confirmation new TX with higer fees, balance is ok.

Ahh. So it's just buggy blockchain.info again. Presumably due to both txs being in the mempool at the same time?

It is programmed to only use the transactions in the mempool and the mempool should only have the transaction with the highest fee and kick the other one from it (that somehow didn't happen with blockchain.info here).