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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Stuck transaction with descendants - help!
by
erikmollink
on 06/03/2021, 15:40:07 UTC
Yesterday I made a stupid mistake. I wanted to get rid of a received dust transaction of 547 sat and tried to send it to a another address with a very low fee of only 336 sat.
This isn't helping you now, but for next time:
Here is a guide showing how to dump the dust if you use Electrum: https://gist.github.com/ncstdc/90fe6209a0b3ae815a6eaa2aef53524c

The transaction sends the 547 sats to a miner. The benefit of the OP_RETURN is that it doesn't create a UTXO that will never be spent. It works with hardware wallets, too.

But, wouldn't that not also stuck any other transactions being done after the dump of the dust, as they would be a child of this dust dump transaction?
I would have to wait first for this transaction to get confirmed before I can do any other transactions?