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I lost 100 Thousand Sats Trying to Unstuck My Stuck Transaction in The Mempool

1110 sats \ 22 comments \ @piecover 27 Dec 2023 bitcoin_beginners

What happen to me was I tryed to be cheap sending a low fee bitcoin transaction and unfortunately it back fire on me, the tx got stuck in the mempool for 10 days, I panic because I could not do CPFP neither RBF on this tx, so I went and obey to this scammy website that promessed me to accelerate the tx for me asap, so I sent them 100k SATs they requested and close my two hands waiting for confirmation from the mempool but no I was wrong nothing was processed for two days now. The lesson from this don't use those accelerator services unless it's a reputable mining pool or a miner with a lot of hashrate that can organize their own block templates.

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24 sats \ 4 replies \ @OT 27 Dec 2023

I think mempool.space has an "accelerator"

There's also VIA BTC that do this too.

Maybe you should warn everyone on the one you used.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

It was some called bittools.net

3 sats \ 2 replies \ @Zenul_Abidin 28 Dec 2023

ViaBTC only has 100 free transaction requests that refresh exactly every hour, but they are used up so fast by bots (and ironically for low-paying Ordinals transactions nowadays) that there is almost no chance of filling a successful request in time.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 28 Dec 2023

Interesting

I haven't used it since 2017.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

True

4 sats \ 1 reply \ @0245bdaef2 27 Dec 2023

Hard lessons are the best lessons

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

Def

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @PRA3S3NT1A 28 Dec 2023

I don't even care if my transaction stuck in mempool for half a year😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

Lol

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 28 Dec 2023

Ouch, I'm sorry to hear you got scammed, man that's such a bummer, good that you're warning and I am sure more people are going to fall for this during this high fee times

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

Yeah

3 sats \ 3 replies \ @elysia 28 Dec 2023

How long would it theoretically sit before being kicked back to the original address if you did nothing?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

It could stay there forever if not properly accelerated since bitcoin tx are irreversible

3 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb 28 Dec 2023

they are irreversible when added to the blockchain, your transaction is stuck in the mempool it will be evicted at some point or you could import your seed on a wallet that has rbf (please be ware of malware), those utxo are still yours until they are included in a block. Unless you need your sats soon, i'd say it would be best to just wait.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @piecover OP 28 Dec 2023

Ok thank you

3 sats \ 4 replies \ @oliverweiss 27 Dec 2023

Sorry to hear that. I was in a similar situation two weeks ago, sent an on-chain transaction with low transaction fees that got stuck. Luckily, a self-transaction from a change address (address where the change went from the stuck transaction) to itself but with higher fees helped in my case. It worked this way because the transactions have to be ordered on blockchain, so the miners, seeing higher fees, “processed” the stuck transaction too. Not sure whether this solution works in general or I was just lucky.