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I know my question will likely be marked as a duplicate, but I do not see how to apply that answer in the case of a Ledger Nano S wallet. Doesn't using the Bitcoin wallet software require downloading 200 GB? I cannot do this. I also ask a few more questions related to this situation.

5 centiBitcoin was sent to Coinbase December 12th and is still marked on their site as 'Pending'. However, their link to live.blockcypher.com says, "No transaction found with the hash [string of numbers and letters]".

It was sent from a Segwit-enabled Ledger Nano S that had received those funds from Coinbase. Their Chrome Bitcoin wallet app lists the transaction as 'unconfirmed', and its link to blockchain.info does show information about the transaction, including a 'received time'.

The fee is 14.781 sat/B, i.e. 57.5 microBitcoin. How many days must I wait for this transaction to be processed? Or, how long must I wait for the transaction to be rejected from the record so that I may respend? Or are the funds locked away forever?

The commonly referenced answer says,

expect it to be ignored for an unknown amount of time until a miner decides to process it and solves the block; this could be several days to several weeks, possibly never. Your wallet and any Bitcoin node will show it as unconfirmed, your transaction is stuck in limbo.

So then this 5 cBTC is now literally "buried in a mine" and may never be dug back out?

I contacted Coinbase but they merely said, "I’ll pass your message [of concern and support for BIP 148 / SegWit] along for consideration for the team." Are they implying my funds are frozen until they enable SegWit? Why wouldn't they have already enabled it?

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    Please provide the transaction id, would be easier to help. – Chak Dec 20 '17 at 23:19
  • @PieterWuille, the first paragraph explains how this question is not a duplicate of that one, although there is overlap. – Internet User Dec 21 '17 at 00:40
  • @Chak, what is the transaction ID used for, and why is it helpful to know it? (I am concerned about attempts to double-spend the coins before I can access them, so I am trying to provide sufficient information while keeping it anonymous.) – Internet User Dec 21 '17 at 00:41
  • Is impossible to double-spend without the private key. A transaction ID is like a publicly available id number for a bitcoin transaction. Example: This transaction where the random characters after /tx/ is the transaction id. – Chak Dec 21 '17 at 00:56

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