diff --git a/wallet/wallet.go b/wallet/wallet.go
index e006fba..4f5330b 100644
--- a/wallet/wallet.go
+++ b/wallet/wallet.go
@@ -3385,7 +3385,7 @@ func (w *Wallet) publishTransaction(tx *wire.MsgTx) (*chainhash.Hash, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	txid, err := chainClient.SendRawTransaction(tx, false)
+	_, err = chainClient.SendRawTransaction(tx, false)
 
 	// Determine if this was an RPC error thrown due to the transaction
 	// already confirming.
@@ -3394,9 +3394,10 @@ func (w *Wallet) publishTransaction(tx *wire.MsgTx) (*chainhash.Hash, error) {
 		rpcTxConfirmed = rpcErr.Code == btcjson.ErrRPCTxAlreadyInChain
 	}
 
+	txid := tx.TxHash()
 	switch {
 	case err == nil:
-		return txid, nil
+		return &txid, nil
 
 	// Since we have different backends that can be used with the wallet,
 	// we'll need to check specific errors for each one.
@@ -3415,7 +3416,7 @@ func (w *Wallet) publishTransaction(tx *wire.MsgTx) (*chainhash.Hash, error) {
 	case strings.Contains(
 		strings.ToLower(err.Error()), "txn-already-in-mempool",
 	):
-		return txid, nil
+		return &txid, nil
 
 	// If the transaction has already confirmed, we can safely remove it
 	// from the unconfirmed store as it should already exist within the
@@ -3450,7 +3451,7 @@ func (w *Wallet) publishTransaction(tx *wire.MsgTx) (*chainhash.Hash, error) {
 				"from unconfirmed store: %v", tx.TxHash(), dbErr)
 		}
 
-		return txid, nil
+		return &txid, nil
 
 	// If the transaction was rejected for whatever other reason, then we'll
 	// remove it from the transaction store, as otherwise, we'll attempt to