abandontransaction

abandontransaction "txid" Mark in-wallet transaction <txid> as abandoned This will mark this transaction and all its in-wallet descendants as abandoned which will allow for their inputs to be respent. It can be used to replace "stuck" or evicted transactions. It only works on transactions which are not included in a block and are not currently in the mempool. It has no effect on transactions which are already abandoned. Arguments: 1. txid (string, required) The transaction id Result: null (json null) Examples: > bitcoin-cli abandontransaction "1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d" > curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "abandontransaction", "params": ["1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d"]}' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

Signature

abandontransaction(txid: string) → any

Code samples

curl --user "$RPC_USER:$RPC_PASS" \
  --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"docs","method":"abandontransaction","params":["\"<txid>\""]}' \
  -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
  http://127.0.0.1:8332/

bitcoin-cli abandontransaction "1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d"

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "abandontransaction", "params": ["1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d"]}' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

import requests
r = requests.post(
    "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
    auth=("$RPC_USER", "$RPC_PASS"),
    json={
        "jsonrpc": "1.0",
        "id": "docs",
        "method": "abandontransaction",
        "params": ["\"<txid>\""],
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(r.json())

const res = await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8332/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "authorization": "Basic " + btoa(`${process.env.RPC_USER}:${process.env.RPC_PASS}`),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    jsonrpc: "1.0",
    id: "docs",
    method: "abandontransaction",
    params: ["\"<txid>\""],
  }),
});
console.log(await res.json());

Parameters

Name	Type	Req.	Description
txid	`string`	yes	The transaction id

Result

Type: any

null (json null)

Source: services/core-node/bcore/src/wallet/rpc/transactions.cpp:858

C++ symbol: abandontransaction

Code samples

curl --user "$RPC_USER:$RPC_PASS" \
  --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"docs","method":"abandontransaction","params":["\"<txid>\""]}' \
  -H 'content-type: text/plain;' \
  http://127.0.0.1:8332/

bitcoin-cli abandontransaction "1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d"

curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "abandontransaction", "params": ["1075db55d416d3ca199f55b6084e2115b9345e16c5cf302fc80e9d5fbf5d48d"]}' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8332/

import requests
r = requests.post(
    "http://127.0.0.1:8332/",
    auth=("$RPC_USER", "$RPC_PASS"),
    json={
        "jsonrpc": "1.0",
        "id": "docs",
        "method": "abandontransaction",
        "params": ["\"<txid>\""],
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(r.json())

const res = await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8332/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "content-type": "application/json",
    "authorization": "Basic " + btoa(`${process.env.RPC_USER}:${process.env.RPC_PASS}`),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    jsonrpc: "1.0",
    id: "docs",
    method: "abandontransaction",
    params: ["\"<txid>\""],
  }),
});
console.log(await res.json());