Hey everyone, what’s up...
I'm dealing with a tough situation with my client's Bitcoin wallet. I’ve tried all the fixes mentioned in past threads about stuck transactions, but nothing’s worked so far. This has been dragging on for months since it started on February 18th, and these transactions are still not confirmed.
I would really appreciate any advice from those who know how to get these long-standing transactions confirmed. Thanks in advance for any help!
Import your seed phrase into Electrum or Bluewallet. You transaction would have been confirmed, but if not confirmed, it would have been dropped from mempool by now and you will be able to spend the coin.
You don't provide enough details to assist you or examine your options. Actually you don't provide any detail at all, except there's a stuck transaction for about 8-9 months. How is anyone supposed to help you with such a lack of information?
Who is rebroadcasting such a transaction over and over again to keep it alive for more than half a year?
Anyway, if you don't control any of the transaction's outputs, you can't use CPFP. If the transaction originated from a custodial wallet then you can't use RBF, because not your keys, not your coins' control.
Are you saying you can see your transaction on block explorers and it's shown as an unconfirmed transaction?
If you broadcasted a transaction on February 18, it's very unlikely that nodes still have your transaction in their mempool.
Of course, it's possible that someone rebroadcasted your transaction many times and made some nodes still have your transaction in their mempool.
Can you post your transaction ID? (Note that with sharing your transaction ID, you may harm your privacy)
i can't find the transactions on the blockchain by the way so could it be a fake transactions? i can only see it when i open the wallet from bitcoin.com app
I will advise you to import the seed phrase into Electrum or Bluewallet. You should be able to see your coins and spend it if it was dropped from the mempool. Or if the transaction was confirmed and successful, you will see it there on the history tab. You are the sender, so there is nothing fake about the transaction as you have your wallet seed phrase and keys.
i have did what you said to me electrum and bluewallet but none of the pending transactions showed up i only only see the pending transactions on the bitcoin.com wallet also i am not the sender i am the receiver
You are the receiver. It would be good if you can let us know your txid. You should be able to see the txid on bitcoin.com as you see pending. But that transaction would have been dropped from mempool. The sender can also use RBF to replace the transaction with another one to replace your address to his own. Just do not believe in an unconfirmed transaction, make sure a transaction is confirmed before accepting it as a successful transaction.
here is the link for one of the transactions when i click on see transactions on block explorer https://explorer.bitcoin.com/btc/tx/54559adfc79b04fa16864d3c7ba789aa771fce59d4763e5d7cabcf6f95138c70 but when i enter the link i get 404
I saw this: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/54559adfc79b04fa16864d3c7ba789aa771fce59d4763e5d7cabcf6f95138c70
If a transaction becomes invalid, it means it has been dropped from the mempool. I have checked other mempools blockchain explorer but nothing seen again. Not a successful transaction and you can not get the coins.
You got scammed.
The transaction you received was replaced by this transaction: 7b3f4a78671299347caac578fdc1bb4b137defc825268e16d334c6325142b4ec
Take note that there is no guarantee that an unconfirmed transaction will be finally confirmed and unless you completely trust the sender, you should never accept an unconfirmed transaction.
I meant blockchain explorer. Mempool is for checking the fee rate to be used in a transaction. Although, there is a site that is both a mempool site and has a blockchain explorer, https://mempool.space/, while experienced people may prefer to use https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,24h,weight which gives more information about the fee rate, but just a mempool.
how you were able to know this could you kindly tell me how because i have total pending transactions worth of 500k so i need to confirm that all those transactions has been manipulated
The pending transaction will be never confirmed and the balance displayed by your wallet is wrong.
Here is the transaction displayed in you wallet.
54559adfc79b04fa16864d3c7ba789aa771fce59d4763e5d7cabcf6f95138c70
From:
bc1ql865tdg9tjhrd5ec4tqs5jv4caaah06gujtpe9 0.02434293 BTC
bc1ql3r6y0anjyzz4zfvxwy8zfxfhj9jdz9hxz0um3 0.02027627 BTC
To:
17G4XNws9K3iZ632TK7nBvxi1MsXzmSb6x 0.04036433 BTC
bc1q4acc4qc20cgy4qsaapqpf263h4k3fgkgtgy4qy 0.00425273 BTC
One of the receiving addresses must be owned by you.
The same coins were used in the following transaction.
7b3f4a78671299347caac578fdc1bb4b137defc825268e16d334c6325142b4ec
From:
bc1ql865tdg9tjhrd5ec4tqs5jv4caaah06gujtpe9 0.02434293 BTC
bc1ql3r6y0anjyzz4zfvxwy8zfxfhj9jdz9hxz0um3 0.02027627 BTC
To:
bc1qergs08g635azsy6fnfggnpqs2hpme6k8vkzv0s 0.04459940 BTC
Since this transaction has been confirmed, the first one will be never confirmed.
yeah that address is mine 17G4XNws9K3iZ632TK7nBvxi1MsXzmSb6x
so this is the address of the scammer address bc1qergs08g635azsy6fnfggnpqs2hpme6k8vkzv0s right?
There is a chain of addresses/transaction after that address in a short time frame. It appears as though the person was trying to hide the transaction trail.
How did you end up in this situation, was the client trying to pay you for some goods or services?
no i am cybersecurity engineer and i was conducting a pen test for my client so he asked if i can help him in investigating this case so it's just a favor for my client, so how i can find the address that the scammer add to get the coins?
there is alot of transactions worth in total about 500k has the same condition so we need to get the final address that the scammer used
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You are right.
The scammer replaced the transaction that had been made to you with a new one and the address which received the fund in the replacement transaction is probably owned by the scammer.
As stated by Bitcoin_Arena, the fund was moved between many other addresses to make tracing the fund difficult.
500,000 dollars?
Such a chain of transactions in a short time frame which move coins from just 1 input to 1 output is barely hiding anything. For such a 1 input to 1 output transaction without using any change address there's quite some likelyhood that both input and output belong to the same individual. Such a simple coin movement chain just wastes coins in fees and only hides something for bitcoin noobs.
That sparked my interest, too, as I came to the same conclusion as hosseinimr93 in his post
I immediately saw that the Tx 54559adfc79b04fa16864d3c7ba789aa771fce59d4763e5d7cabcf6f95138c70 had RBF enabled and a very low transaction fee to keep the transaction as long as possible unconfirmed. This screamed for a later replacement transaction by the scammer that denied the coins for the OP. It's likely that the malicious individual did this trick multiple times, maybe even with the OP as when you follow the chain of transactions this actor topped up coins and likely did the RBF trick multiple times (I didn't analyse it 'til the end, gave up after some lengthy chain of transactions over multiple days).