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Board Electrum
Re: 'Local' transaction, yet can be found on a block explorer
by
9Df00x
on 20/01/2024, 16:36:43 UTC
Thank you all.

Although, it will get dropped for good once any of its input is spent by another transaction.

I can't get my head around why the transaction would get "dropped for good once any of its input is spent by another transaction."

I am the sender, and I've tried re-sending that UTXO(?), after resyncing the SPV of the decentralized exchange I am withdrawing from. This attempt to re-send is pending (on the interface of the exchange), and can't be found on mempool.space. I imagine that the attempt to re-send is pending because the previous transaction (the one in question, that is inbound to the Electrum wallet) is still "in the network". That is why I struggle to understand how the transaction would get "dropped for good once its input is spent by another transaction".

I'm curious to understand what I am missing here.


Unfortunately, since it's inbound, you can't do anything to it but to contact the sender to increase the fee if it's possible in his wallet;

I am the sender and I can't increase the fee from the wallet of the exchange.

Or wait for it to be able to broadcast again then use CPFP to the transaction to bump its fee (right-click->"Child pays for parent"),

That's what I am most comfortable doing. I will try changing server now and then until the inbound transaction get "picked up" again, and CPFP.

I have a couple of precautionary questions: is it safe to:
- update Electrum
- receive and send other transactions
while I have this 'Local' transaction hanging?