Transaction Would Not Confirm and then it Disappeared

Last week, I exported the private keys from my offline Electrum wallet to an Electron Cash wallet. In addition, I created two additional Electron Cash wallets: offline wallet and online “watch only”.

On the online computer, I sent some small amounts of BCH back and forth from the first Electron Cash wallet to the “watch only” wallet. These worked fine.

Then I tried to send the remaining balance from the first wallet to the “watch only” wallet. Both wallets showed the transaction, waiting for confirmation. I searched for the transaction ID on BlockExplorer and couldn’t find it.

Over 3 hours passed and there was still no confirmation. Maybe this is because I allocated only 1 sat/byte as fee. The transaction information window showed that the expected confirmation time is 25 blocks, transaction size is more than 950 bytes and fee is 9 cents.

I shut down Electron Cash and restarted. When the wallet windows appeared, the unconfirmed transaction appeared for a split-second and then disappeared. There is no trace of the transaction anywhere. Luckily the balance did not get deducted.

I found out, by changing servers, that the transaction re-appeared when I manually selected:

electrum-bch.adminsehow.com

I tried several other servers and the transaction did not appear. I tried electrum-bch.adminsehow.com again, and it would not connect.

What happened to the transaction? Did I do something wrong? Is it safe to submit this transaction again?

MINOR ISSUE

Before I did the above, I did the following. I exported the private keys from my offline Electrum wallet to an Electron Cash wallet and added a password to encrypt it. I copied the Electron Cash wallet to my online computer. When I tried to send some BCH, it prompted me for a password. I entered that password and it rejected it. I don’t know why.

So, I repeated the process from the beginning. I exported the private keys from my offline Electrum wallet to another Electron Cash wallet and added a password to encrypt it. I copied this second Electron Cash wallet to my online computer. When I tried to send some BCH, it sent it right away without asking for a password. I noticed that the padlock was unlocked. I don’t know why it was unlocked. I clicked it and added a password. I tried sending another transaction, it prompted me for the password, I entered it and it was accepted.

Do you think there is a bug?

IMPORTING PRIVATE KEYS VERSUS OPENING/CONVERTING ELECTRUM WALLETS

I followed the instructions from here (https://techhelpkb.com/claim-bitcoin-cash-from-electrum-to-an-spv-wallet/) to import private keys, but this does not let me create a watch-only wallet. Later, I found out that I could have simply opened and converted the Electrum wallets, and created a watch-only wallet. Can I delete the first wallet and use the converted wallet (with watch only) instead?

[curt0]

FYI: I used the Electrum wallet that I had opened and converted with Electron Cash, to send. I used the same (“second”) watch-only wallet that I created last week with Electron Cash, to receive. I used the same “receiving address” as before. Electron Cash selected electron.jns.im server. This time it worked and confirmed.

Thanks for your help!

[fyookball]

From which of the above wallets should I get the seed, to create a new wallet? The first one with the BCH balance imported from Electrum? Or, the new, second wallet?

Whichever wallet you are trying to send from. What I am saying is that if the TX appears and disappears intermmitantly, it may be a bad tx that wont get relayed because of fees or dust or whatever, so the solution is you just connect to a node that doesnt see it with a fresh wallet file.