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Warning! Something wrong with Blockchain.info wallet

Full disclosure: I work for Bitalo, so basically I'm a competitor, though I'm only posting that to warn others, not to discredit Blockchain.info, their service is otherwise superb.

There is something wrong with Blockchain.info transaction processing. Lately I noticed that more and more people have problems with their transactions not being confirmed for a very long time, even though they have appropriate fee and no strange inputs/outputs. Here is one of these posts:

Link to the transaction:

Notice that this transaction is unconfirmed from Feb 22nd! Now when I investigated it came out that this transaction actually doesn't exist on Bitcoin network, even though Blockchain.info says so. See for yourself on other, alternative block explorers:

When I dug a little more, I noticed that even though this transaction is unconfirmed (and it basically doesn't exist anywhere outside Blockchain.info), one of its outputs are already spent! This was probably the change of the transaction and it was spent by the Blockchain.info wallet as well. This created a pretty long chain of transactions, which, still, don't exist on Bitcoin network. Some examples (one from Blockchain.info, one from Blockr.io):

What this means that right now owners of these wallets could send you Bitcoin, you would see them on Blockchain.info and think you already got them, but in reality, you didn't get anything and you never will! Please be careful while Blockchain.info fixes this issue with their software.

Now if you own such wallet, what you can do to get your funds back is:

  • go to Import / Export section of your wallet
  • pick "Export Unencrypted"
  • copy the private key
  • import the private key to another Bitcoin wallet not on Blockchain.info. Multibit probably will be the best option here, but it's up to you.

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