[Ethereum] Transaction out of gas – where are the ethers

out-of-gas

I sent 2 ethers to indahash for an ico and the Transaction ran out of gas. Indahash say they dont have them, they are not in my wallet and this happened 18 days ago.I'd like to get the ethers either to indahash or back to my wallet.

Best Answer

I believe there are only three possible outcomes:

  • Ether stayed in your wallet.
  • Ether got transferred to another account/contract. This can be split into two cases:
    • Sent to correct account/contract.
    • Sent to incorrect account/contract.

Ether cannot be stuck in limbo in the way you seem to think it might be. You can look at the transaction on the blockchain to figure out where there ethers ended up. I suppose there's a third (unlikely) outcome: you set a very high gas limit and/or price and a relatively small transaction and you spent all your ether on gas, so it went to the miners in the form of a transaction fee. But you should have seen that one a mile away with any of the mainstream wallet programs.

If you find your transaction ID/hash (the same thing) and search for it on https://etherscan.io, you can see what happened to the transaction.