Bitcoin Q&A: Orphaned Blocks and Stuck Transactions

Описание: What happens to transactions in an orphaned block? How can I fix stuck transactions? How do replace-by-fee (RBF) and child-pays-for-parent (CPFP) work?

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0:00 What happens to transactions in stale shares or orphaned blocks that end up on a minority chain?
1:29 I submitted a small transaction to send BTC to another address. It has been pending for over a week. I was testing to see if I could send a transaction for the lowest fee of one satoshi per byte. I'm afraid the transaction is stuck and cannot be double-spent with a higher fee; the wallet gives me an error that says the transaction is already in the mempool.
Is there anything I can do to cancel my transaction, or will I have to wait until it drops off the mempool in order to resend it with a higher fee?
3:27 My wallet gives me two ways to un-stick transactions (RBF and CPFP)
6:35 Back to your question: you are afraid the transaction is stuck and cannot be double-spent with a higher fee...

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