Dumb question to the experts in the thread.....
Just recently had a BTC transaction pending for exceptionally long time. I even accelerated it and still didn't get picked up by the mempool for a long long time (it finally cleared).
I've never had this happen before, especially after accelerating it. I guess the traffic was picking up quite a bit as I entered the pool and got caught with too low a fee/+acceleration.
Anyway, I've read that the transaction would have eventually just "died" and dropped out of the pending mempool if I waited long enough (days). Is this true and if not, what would you do with a transaction stuck in pending?