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I had a friend send me 100$ btc and it's been over an hour and it's still 0/3 confirmation. I normally get them instantly or 30 minutes tops. Is their an issue?

If you give us txid , we can tell you more on that transaction, but there's nothing un-usual with it taking more than 30 minutes.
The likely problem that could probably happen is if the fee included was small, but once again, without txid it's only speculation on our part.

the entire speed of the transaction depends on the fee you include. if you want to receive the coins within 30min i suggest you tell your friend to include a fee of atleast 10 cents with that transaction.

Anything lower would likely result in waiting hours for confirmations.

You said "0/3" confirmations which make me think you are using a third party service and not viewing the transaction in a blockchain explorer. If It's the case then there might be some problems with the service you are using , If you are not using any , then your friend probably didn't pay the recommended fees (post the TXID so we could help you more).

To the best of my understanding it should not take as long as that but sometimes its delayed because of the amount as miner's fee if its too low it could take forever but if its sufficient enough, it will deliver its just a matter of time. Give time time.

And how / where do I find this txid?? Sorry I'm newb at this

Anyone? It's been 3hrs and no coins. On block chain it says 0/6 and on Paxful it says 0/3

Where is this txid everyone is asking for, for my help?  ???

Really?! This is insane. What's the maximum time frame here?

If the transaction didn't confirm when someone sent you the coins it will not be accessible for you to spend.

OK, 3 hours isn't really what i would call normal now.

Once again i ask you - Give us TXID of the transaction, guessing is pointless here.

I asked where do I find the TXID??

depends how much big amount of money is sended i think and fees amount sended to miners i  think

If you can't find it or don't know what it is, just give us address where you're waiting for coins, or address that sent the coins (receiving or sending address)
and we will find txid ourselves.

You can see the transaction by viewing address on block explorer like blockchain.info
Example of my address https://blockchain.info/address/1MZvjgQFQdAUUx5n6Prxw4oGuRycVmaZYR

Every a bit bigger bump up/down pricewise leads to higher number of transactions, that's probably the reason why mempool is getting higher,
but none the less, i was sending some funds today and didn't note a lot of waiting time (dunno exactly , but it took no longer than ~1.5 hours), whereas OP claims to be waiting for more than 3 hrs.

Idk how to check TxID
Can someone do it for me? My address is :
3N6Jx9WBwx28tQ3a22CWqTfhNHxs13DNMk

https://blockchain.info/tx/2c26890172f3709eec3033c29a999594f72059875bff1afa416b5381f2f9f1bc this is your txid, and even tho fee looks somewhat small, it will be fine.

OP, relax and wait. I was afraid transaction was sent w/ zero fee, but it's obviously not the case. All you can do now is wait, there's a lot of unconfirmed transactions (https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions)


* The amount you're receiving seams to be 0.03 btc = ~ 20$  Unlike what you said that you're expecting (100$ per OP)

It will come through though right??

yes that is the main problem of bitcoin that some time transaction transformation take a lot of time that is really effecting the image of bitcoin, i think that this issue must be solve as soon a possible.

Don't see why not, even tho there's no exact way to know when (doubt it will be soon),but i would not take anything for granted without atleast one confirmation.
Right now there's nothing you can do but wait.



It really is anoying sometimes, but solutions are being developed tho.

Thanks everyone for the help. I was a little worried. But I'm reassured now for the most part. I'll be patient.

Most of the time the receiving time is for 20-30 mins. If it took longer than that, you'll receive it maybe in less than an hour. So far the longest time for me to receive a bitcoin is about 12 hours of waiting for it to be confirmed and that happened when bitcoin pumped to 780$ last time. I think you should have received it by now or not depending on the time for blockchain to confirm it.

Damn, 12 hours..  :o Its been over 4hrs now for me. I honestly can say I'm scared I don't get it. Now I'm obsessing over it refreshing the page every 5 minutes lol ...YES! Two confirmations now. It's coming! Woohoo

Well thats all about the fee, the bigger the fee the fast your transaction will get confirmed, or if there is more then one transaction to be done, at yobit i do moove my funds in less then 2 hours, i dont remember how much time has took for the transaction get confirmed.

I think it depends on how much money /btc send . if the bitcoin is large I think the confirmation is long to confirm and I think if the bitcoin is small the confirmation is short time only. Try to upgrade you miner fee to confirm your transaction faster and smooth.

It could be that the fee was smaller than the network average and thus its being pushed back, or there could be a block taking a REALLY long time to go through. It's happened to me on a few occasions and it wouldn't surprise me if it was happening again.

Yeah well, that's the bitcoin network--sometimes you gotta wait.  I think I waited most of the day when I sent bitcoin from my Mycelium wallet using the Low-Priority miner fee option.  Takes forever.  And sometimes the network is just clogged.  Be patient.

how much your setting is fee, if your setting fee is very lower so receive is very long time
its use standard fee ussualy receive only 20 minute

its fine if your friends waiting for 1 hours and i guess your friend using low fee, because as far as i know, if we send with low fee the confirmation will takes too long to complete. and for next transaction, i suggest your friend using normal or high fee transaction and see what will happen.

Transactions take time to confirm, as they are interweaved into the whole system. I've seen some transaction confirmations take place in as little as a minute, and some take a couple hours. Be patient, it will clear... its not instantaneous (the blessing and the curse of having this be a decentralized system where no one server, no one clearinghouse is in charge of everything, and every transaction can be confirmed by multiple stations.

in the transaction some time take 24 hour as was happened in my case when block of blockchain was not working ( temporarily ) .
but it also depend whether you send brc from one wallet to another .
i mean if you will send from blockchain to zebpay then it will take more time then the simple time take at blockchain .

That is not an issue. Do not worry you will recieve your bitcoin for sure.  I am agree that may be the block of bloackchain was not working temporary. Or it is just so many people was send or make transaction with bitcoin in the same time. So it is like so any people have to stand in line to make the transaction done. I ever done my bitcoin transaction in 24 for hour too but I also ever done my bitcoin transaction in less that 1 second.

I had never experienced dealay of more than 10 minutes. Almost instantly i had transferred bitcoin many times especially while bugging online goods i don't have much patience so i count the seconds and it never turned to more than 3 to 4 minutes. So regarding goopy situation, it is taking lot of time because May be he had given less transaction fees or could be delay due to large que.

one day i send 30$ of btc to a friend from blockchain to zebpay . buy even after 1 hour he said that he didn't not received  but when i see the transaction there was nothing at blockchain also but after 3 hours the payment get done successfully by receive the sms .
so i think you should wait . may be another problem also so i will suggest you to contact to support of bitcoin wallet from which you send .

actually here the problem is very complicated from all simple transaction from wallet to wallet or other wallet . so i think no one can help him here , so i will advice him take technical support from.the blockchain soon . because the time that has been spent by him is enough to confirm one confirmation

In most cases of your transaction not "hitting" the blockchain comes either due to your client not being up to date with downloading the latest blocks, or that the node from the explorer that you used simply "ignores" your transaction. That's why you should look at various block explorers.

blockr.io
blocktrail.com

These are great explorers that you can use when blockchain.info freaks out, and in the times it doesn't show your transactions.

Is most likely your transaction fees paid less  So make your trading was delayed

But don't worry, as long as there is plenty of time Your trading will receive finally

Even more delay has happened with me couple of times in recieving even 1 confirmation for my bitcoin transaction.I think upto 12-16 hours i have waited once getting 1 confirmation but you doesnt need to worry about it,it only happens sometimes and should get confirmed at some time.

Yes, it is common, the number of transactions is way above capacity, long confirmation time is an inevitability.

You can use off-chain services, like Coinbase or Xapo, or other currencies like litecoin, if you need fast transactions.

This  kind of transactions times  are  just  normal  regarding  on transfering  funds  to another wallet because  it  depends on  the fee you  put  on  on  transferring the   funds the  smaller  the  longer of waiting  times   the  bigger the fee  the  fast  of   transaction  would it be.

Few months ago happens that someone send transfer without fee and transaction was waiting 3 days in queue.. after three days come back to the wallet.

Standard fee is 10k satoshi. If someone want be sure that transaction will be realised faster is better to pay more than 10k satoshi fee..

Mainly The Speed Of Transaction Depends Upon Two Factors:-
1) If the Sender Pay Low Fees than the Recommend Fee then Also the transaction Will be Slower....
3) Or if the Bitcoin Network is Not Strong then It Takes Time For Confirming Transaction......

Its  just a commonsense thing that we  should  pay even  more satoshi  in able to  transfer  a way more  faster  rather than  putting  up only a small amount. This  case  may really depend  on the  user,  if  hes  on the rush  on  transferring  the  bitcoin  then  he  should add  up transaction fee in able for bitcoin  transfers  would  be  fasten and if  hes not on the rush then any fee would  do. There are really times that  confirmations would  really be  long .

Bitcoin transactions are Mainly Confirmed Within 20-60 Minutes But If Your Transaction is Taking More time then There May Be the Following Reasons:-
1) If You Pay Low Feeds For the Transaction then it Needs More time to Confirm Your Transaction.......
2) Or If the Bitcoin Network is Weak Then Your Transaction Becomes Slower.......

Sometimes it takes long to receive your bitcoin and  I think by now you have received your coins. Even if it took 1 week the longest I experience always remember that it will arrive. It will always arrive and just trust blockchain. The speed of the transaction is dependent on the fees included to it and of course the current state of the blockchain and hashing power of miners.

Actually the bitcoin transactions can be faster if you don't mind to additional the transactions fees. But sometimes the confirmation of transactions is long time enough and we should wait it patiently.

At times it could be slow internet network which can delay the transaction also at times the blockchsin network could be too busy,a lot of traffic with s little you will get the money

It depends on the confirmations on the block chain! There are times that it will only takes around five minutes or less and there are also times that it will takes a few days before you can receive it on your bitcoin wallet.

That's right, it actually depend on fees you pay for a transaction but sometimes even if you pay the minimum required fees you transaction still does not take much time and sometimes even after paying more fees than normal makes it confirmed after a long time, so it happens in bitcoin network quite often these days because of the load maybe.

Its Not Possible to Predict that How Much a Transaction needs time to be confirmed, There May Be Two Reasons Behind this:-
1) If the Sender Pay Low Fees then the Transaction Needs More Time To Confirm Sometimes it takes 24-48 Hours to Confirmed.....
2) Or If the Bitcoin Network is Slow then its Not Possible that the Transaction Will Confirmed Faster.......