Ok, it seems to be an issue with the block explorers. Both Blockstream and Blockcypher were showing the transaction last night but not today, which led me to believe it had been dropped from the mempool. Now I've found it on blockchainDOTcom's explorer. Still no confirmations, which is fine. I know different explorers can have conflicting info based on different mempools but i didnt realise it could disappear once it was there.

Odd thing is that if i keep refreshing the tx page on blockstream's explorer, it will sometimes find the tx and sometimes won't.

Well, anyways. Guess now I just have to wait for the confirmations

Thx for the help guys, much appreciated.

Hello everyone,

I’ve been having trouble with a transaction I made yesterday. I set a 1sat/b fee, since I’m not at all in a hurry to have it confirmed. I woke up today and went to check and it is no longer anywhere to be found on a block explorer. The transaction doesn’t exist on any explorer and, naturally, the original output hasn’t been spent and the destination address hasn’t received anything either.

I imagine this means it dropped out of the mempool? This has never happened to me before and I’m not quite sure how it works. It had only been about 12 hours since I had made it. I thought it usually spent a lot longer in there before it dropped.

Anyway, here is where the problem starts: I’ve made the transaction using a Ledger Nano S. According to Ledger Live, the desktop software,  the transaction still exists, though it has no confirmations. There is a sync button in there that supposedly updates the info from the blockchain, but nothing happens when I press it. In the ledger support website, they suggest I clear the software’s cache which would allow it to solve any syncing issues but no luck. I’ve even reset all accounts from Ledger Live and paired the device again and still, nothing.

So, what now? I thought about doing a RBF but I suppose Ledger would try to spend it from the change address of the original transaction, which hasn’t been confirmed. There were no other outputs in the wallet. What happens then?

Would a Child-Pays-For-Parent work for this?

Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated!

waaaaay beyond my expertise. On the issues section of the github, the dev says it's planned for the future but unlikely to be implemented this month. Oh well, I suppose I'll recover it eventually.

Ok, so the recovery tool is quite simple but I ran into a wall. When asked to input a public adress, it was giving me this error: "An entered address is invalid (not a bitcoin p2pkh adress; version byte is 0x05)". Did some research and apparently this has to do with the fact that this was an segwit address, which uses a different format, and this recovery tool still doesn't support. This was the only address I had in this wallet.

Any ideas? Otherwise I guess I'll have to wait till they implement this.

Seems quite reasonable! I'll try to get this btcrecover working and I'll get back to you

Last 2 letters of one of the words are "re". The other word's last letter is "t" and I can sort of make out the letter before that, it's either an "r" or and "f"

Well, I had the words written down on a notebook. Don't quite recall why but some time ago I wrote something on the verse of the page and ripped that part off, not realizing the words were on the other side. Only noticed it today when looking for it. Either way, it has no BTC in it, I moved it a couple of months ago, but I could use it to recover some pocket change worth of BCD.

I do know the position of all the words, as well as the last 2 letters in one of the lost ones. I'll take a look at btcrecover and the python tutorials and see if I can figure it out.

Thanks a lot guys! I'll keep you posted.

Hello everyone.

I went through some of my older private keys and in one of them i've seem to have lost 3 out of the 24 words of my passphrase. I'll spare you the details of my idiocy  . There wasn't really that much money in there but I was wondering if bruteforcing these 3 words is possible since I have the other 21. I don't really know how this stuff works but if it is possible, how would I go about doing this?

thx in advance.