sendrawtransaction on a non-synced node

Question

This question is related to this post explaining how to use bitcoin-qt to generate a transaction.

Once obtained, I'd like to dispatch it from my system which is running a non-synced node. When issuing sendrawtransaction the following happens:

./bitcoin-cli sendrawtransaction
error code: -26
error message:
non-final

I have two questions related to this

1. Am I right that this is caused by the fact that my node is not synced?
2. Is there a way to dispatch the transaction to the BTC network anyway?

Answer 1

Am I right that this is caused by the fact that my node is not synced?

It certainly could be. The transaction could have a locktime that is in the past in reality, but is in the future from the perspective of the unsynced node.

Is there a way to dispatch the transaction to the BTC network anyway?

Use a node that is synchronized. It doesn't need to be your own; you won't have RPC access to other nodes, but you can use a tool like bitcoin-submittx, or websites like block explorers that permit submitting transactions (possibly though Tor).