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Board Electrum
Re: Advanced: cancel (double-spend) a non-electrum transaction?
by
nc50lc
on 23/01/2025, 04:52:11 UTC
Is there a way to use Electrum to double-spend a transaction that is not RBF enabled?
The transaction was made by another wallet that has no RBF support.
Currently, there's no way through Electrum client alone. (at least without using tricky workarounds)
That option relies on the opt-in RBF flag in the transaction for the "cancel (double-spend)" option to be available in its right-click menu.

However, there's an issue related to it that could enable rbf-related wallet options even if the transactions don't signal RBF replaceability.
Link: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/8821
Even if the server doesn't explicitly allows full-rbf, the user could export the signed "cancel" raw transaction and broadcast it elsewhere where full-rbf is supported.