How to do a double-spend transaction with bitcoin core
How to do a double-spend transaction with bitcoin core I'm sure I did this wrong, and maybe what i'm trying to do isn't even possible. I sent a large transaction with a very small fee by accident. So I tried to follow the double-spend steps to increase the fee, and get my new transaction processed before the old one. Unfortunately, the new transaction doesn't seem to be accepted by the network. Here's what I did. I shutdown bitcoin core, delete the mempool.dat, started the core client with broadcasting turned off, abandoned the transaction, and then sent a new transaction with the correct fee. I then restarted the wallet with broadcasting turned back on.. However, the transaction did not appear in any other mempool than my own. So, I tried to rebroadcast, getting the raw transaction and then re-sending it. That also resulted in no other clients seeing the transaction. The original transaction is unconfirmed, and still showing in blockchain.info, but 0 confirmat...