Hi, I’m afraid I have blundered significantly in trying to learn about the new unified addresses. I sent a small transaction first, and I thought it worked and that I had an understanding.
and when I look at the transaction fee, I see an absolutely horrifying amount that I did NOT intend.
Unfortunately, my node has gone to “rescanning” for the past day and appears to have several more days (weeks) to complete before I can check my unified addresses.
I had been hoping it was something like that. So, I tried two explorers, blockchair and zcashblockexplorer. BOTH show the exorbitant fee, however one of the two transactions appears stuck in the mempool most likely for lack of fee!
I guess it’s possible my mind is running wild, since my node is stuck rescanning and I can’t verify the funds (they’re sourced from the sapling shielded pool).
Do you know of an explorer that displays fees correctly?
This shows the raw transaction and amount transferred across the pools. It is included in block 2294559 which has a fee of about 0.00250206 (if my math is right). Other txid does not appear to be valid and so may have expired.
The reason that you see this total amount is because it transferred from orchard to sapling or the other way around and the block Explorer does not parse that from being different from the fee. It’s a known issue
Pretty much. Since the transaction was not mined, the notes committed to it were never spent so it’s as though it never really happened.
If the balance is still incorrect after certain amount of time has passed like a few hours then you can perform a rescan or checkpoint rewind to fix that. It’s not common but I have heard of it occurring.
following up…Autotunafish nailed it…funds are SAFU.
I normally research unexpected results prior to posting, including in this case. I’m not sure what I would have turned up had I continued on my own. It was nice to have the ZEC community’s direct response in this matter.
