Ok, admittedly this is only vaguely related to USDe, but this IS related to sending BTC to an exchange to buy USDe and the BTC community is proving itself to be useless.... I accidentally sent BTC to our .io exchange to buy USDe and while the transx showed up there, there were no confirmations. Checking the facts and the boards I asked "whats up" --
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/426587.0 -- and the issue is that the low amount of BTC didn't trigger an auto Transaction fee to go with it.
Fine. I get it.
So, now what? I can't pull the transx back to redo it, I can't add a TX fee to the transx already out there in limbo. What now? Either there is a course of action or I have to sit and wait until the transx is sent either to me or the intended recipient. Or does everyone who sends off a transx without a transx fee just lose their coin?
This doesn't make sense. Is there anything I can do to resolve the issue, or do I just have to wait a few days for everything to shake out?
never had a problem like this and I even transfered 0.005 BTC and didn't alter the fees, what's the tx id ? did you get in touch with the exchange ? they seem pretty responsive.
Had NOTHING to do with the exchange. Apparently it is a function of BTC itself, as related in my question thread by user DannyHamilton:
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It depends on the wallet.
Bitcoin-Qt will continue to re-transmit the transaction forever until it gets confirmed. Although it is likely that it will get confirmed eventually, there is no guarantee. In theory, it could remain as an unconfirmed transaction for decades.
https://blockchain.info/wallet will stop transmitting the transaction after a few days. At that point it will begin to be dropped from the memory pool of the peers on the network. Eventually the transaction will simply cease to exist. The bitcoins will then be back under the control of the person who sent the bitcoins.
As you can see behavior varies by wallet.
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So caution to all: do not send funds without the TX fee else they be lost in the ether
