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Title: Unconfirmed parent
Post by: Btcnoob12 on February 01, 2017, 04:00:23 PM
Hello I'm having an unconfirmed parent message when I check the status of my transactions.
Please help
https://blockchain.info/tx/8ada74a1f3e7e37b54020de9adc1a89b88c779b79d33e503e774cc32c3cbf4fa


Title: Re: Unconfirmed parent
Post by: shorena on February 01, 2017, 05:13:51 PM
input was confirmed 23 blocks ago


Title: Re: Unconfirmed parent
Post by: Btcnoob12 on February 01, 2017, 05:32:15 PM
Hello, yes I made a transaction this morning and then tried to send them to another wallet but now it is saying unconfirmed parent. I don't know what to do I'm sorry for the noobish dialogue

8ada74a1f3e7e37b54020de9adc1a89b88c779b79d33e503e774cc32c3cbf4fa

1HXX4UNuKnikw7X5fn3hwej932Rgpp6zMH

This is the information I have


Title: Re: Unconfirmed parent
Post by: kolloh on February 01, 2017, 05:54:20 PM
Hello, yes I made a transaction this morning and then tried to send them to another wallet but now it is saying unconfirmed parent. I don't know what to do I'm sorry for the noobish dialogue

8ada74a1f3e7e37b54020de9adc1a89b88c779b79d33e503e774cc32c3cbf4fa

1HXX4UNuKnikw7X5fn3hwej932Rgpp6zMH

This is the information I have

The fee on this transaction is quite low so it could take quite some time to confirm as the recommended fees are about 100 satoshis/byte right now. I would recommend you use the Dynamic Fees option in Electrum in the future ( Enable it in Preferences ). This will give you a slider to control how fast you wish for a confirm and does a pretty good job at estimating accurate fees.


Title: Re: Unconfirmed parent
Post by: Btcnoob12 on February 01, 2017, 05:59:17 PM
Is there anything I can do now to maybe  help the process? I've never run into this type of issue with BTC. Do I need to worry about the funds? It's been about 5 hours... I'm just not sure what to do. I'm guessing there is no way to up the fees now? I'm very confused as to what my next step is.
Thank you very much for your help


Title: Re: Unconfirmed parent
Post by: kolloh on February 01, 2017, 07:53:10 PM
Is there anything I can do now to maybe  help the process? I've never run into this type of issue with BTC. Do I need to worry about the funds? It's been about 5 hours... I'm just not sure what to do. I'm guessing there is no way to up the fees now? I'm very confused as to what my next step is.
Thank you very much for your help

One thing you could try is the Via Transaction Accelerator at https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ . This can sometimes help speed up the process of confirmation.

Alternatively, if you have access to the change of that transaction, you can attempt to sped the change with a high fee and that will sometimes help prioritize the confirmation of the original transaction as well.