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So I had 1 bitcoin in a paper wallet. I swept the funds into my blockchain.info account, then I sent it off to my mycelium phone wallet. That was 40 minutes ago. There are people waiting on me RIGHT NOW to do a transaction and my coins are not confirmed. What should I do???

Did sweeping the coins cause some delay or something??

Sweeping coins should not cause any delay.

Do you see your transaction from your blockchain address to your mycelium address?

Are you asking about a problem with waiting for a single confirmation?

Yes my wallet says it is receiving from block chain. I just need one confirmation and it has been way over 10 minutes. If it doesnt confirm soon I am screwed.

Um, what the heck?  Watch https://blockchain.info/.  Give us a clue, e.g. Bitcoin address of source or destination.

143gQ8WnHPNyqaYDAke3PXsfCNuQNtd8FB

That is the destination.

Did you configure the transaction with a transaction fee or not?  Heck even with one it can take an hour or more for a block to be mined.  10 minutes is just the target average.

https://blockchain.info/address/143gQ8WnHPNyqaYDAke3PXsfCNuQNtd8FB

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chaoman

Sometimes a long confirmation (eg, one hour, happens more often than you would think) can happen.  It is usually best to put some "slack" into your plans, do not assume that everything will go "as it should or normally does".

blockchain.info is sometimes slow to update without refreshing the page too.

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Also, NEVER EVER take any BTC on any boats.  They say that there is much heartbreak among many owners of Bitcoin who have lost them in boating accidents.

Why that happens to owners of precious metals even more!  They take their shiny with them, knowing that it is safer with them rather than in some dark hiding place at home.  Until disaster strikes...

;)

https://blockchain.info/tx/005777305d6058fbb52f78793d9c2a7c299cc47c52cd11640d90962793f9c2f8 --> it did include a fee; good, it's more likely to get committed sooner.

10 mins isnt that long...
I have done many, many transfers between BlockChain wallet and MyCelium and have never had any issues ever.

Just like David Rabahy said, make sure you have something set for a transaction fee- this greatly speeds up the transaction times at least in my experience.

https://blockchain.info/address/1KvmcX8VqrVxkabVgGiWV2yMZXanVKZfqu --> ah, there are large transactions that are clogging up the works in front of your transaction.  A miner can't mine your transaction into a block until the inputs are themselves confirmed (or at best they have to be mined together).  Getting those big transactions, e.g. 35KB, into a block will come eventually.

Well it needs to confirm now or this deal is going to fall through.

If that last transaction is unconfirmed then how was I able to send the coins? I own both addresses.

write TX transaction and receive adress ... instead of crying  ::)

You only have to wait,anyway don't worry becuase your coins are not going to be lost anyway

@Chaoman you tried to spend a unconfirmed transaction
https://blockchain.info/address/1KvmcX8VqrVxkabVgGiWV2yMZXanVKZfqu (You can see input and output transaction here)

So this transaction needs to get confirmed first
https://blockchain.info/tx/66a06c54deaad937b56ce0750f72c2f0d4a061a9e131b3198b523691eeb13305?show_adv=true

which will gonna take some time (Approx 15 minutes or more) because there are mutliple small inputs in both transactions.

I wonder if those large transactions are pool block reward distributions.

and need 100 confirmations for pool reward ...  ;D

You can send unconfirmed transactions from blockchain.info wallet.

https://blockchain.info/es/tx/66a06c54deaad937b56ce0750f72c2f0d4a061a9e131b3198b523691eeb13305

The problem is that transaction, it is to be confirmed in next 6 blocks, and after that the next one will get confirmed

To avoid these sorts of delays I suppose one could enter the private key into the wallet instead of sweeping.

There we go -- assuming it isn't orphaned, mined into block 355566 https://blockchain.info/block-index/878113.

... and with https://blockchain.info/block-height/355567 sitting on top of the original commit we're essentially golden.

Yes, the bigger TX inputs had been confirmed for ages. This one was probably the one that was swept from the paper wallet.

Anyway...

The easiest way to do what you want is to just grab your private keys off the paper wallet you had and import it into blockchain.info
I primarily use electrum for my BTC transactions but have backups of my important privkeys on blockchain.info in case electrum bugs out (often)

I suggest re-trying to sweep your keys.. But make sure you are on the real blockchain.info site.. lest you lose you coins to phishers,.

ok well it got through. I think this highlights an issue with bitcoin though. If the 20mb blocksize can be changed why not faster confirms too?

Relax man.
You included a fee so it'll be confirmed.
Just explain it to the person you're making the deal with, good things come to those who wait.
Why is it so urgent that the deal is closed immediately?
Explain the situation, it shouldn't take much longer.

Edit - Deal went through as I was typing this - Doh!
I was right though wasn't I :D
The one word that fits to bitcoin like a glove - PATIENCE :D

well I had him meet me at a del taco and he had stuff to do so he couldn't be sitting around all day.

You have a substance abuse issue.

what happens when you make assumptions?

Its not that easy. Faster confirmations come at the cost of lower security.

For the next time, here are two tips:

1. Import the paper wallet directly into Mycelium instead of going through blockchain.info.
2. Confirmations are not instant. Plan ahead.

If you use localBitcoins.com as your "escrow agent", then you won't have this problem, because transactions are instant.

You make an ass out of u and me. :)

Next time just go to the "cold storage" option in your phone's Mycelium wallet. Save you the headache, and it's cleaner.

stupid "why does bitcoin take so long to confirm?" shill post.. just saying.

As far as I know if you are using the blockcahin.info the fee is always paid.
So i doubt it was a fee thing.
Probably just took a little longer for a block to be found that includes his transaction.

just try to extract your privates keys, and import them into a lightweigt client , ie: electrum or multibit..

Blockchain.info has not implemented the new variable fee system yet as it seems.   Even though it should suggest a fee to make your tx a high priority, it still just suggests the standard fee.

Are you sure? I once swept a lot of inputs and I put a custom fee. Blockchain.info gave a warning saying it is not recommended/enough fee.*

* Not exact sentence.

I think there are two way's to send they have the regular, it pays it automatically.   Then I believe there is "custom" i think they called other one and you can select fee on it.  I do think it warns on to low when using custom, i don't think it warned if you did a little high (don't know what happens if you do insane high amount) but I could be wrong it's been a while since used it. 

Cold storage :)

Found a soaked cellphone at the beach once.

The disaster on precious metals is their lack of replication-ability. Try to backup a goldbar (gold wire 3D printer anyone?). If the usual precautions are applied on your wallet.dat like on any other valueable data, it should be undestroyable, unbreakable.