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Recently I've sent $20 for a trade but even after 48 hours its not confirmed yet. Are you guys too facing this issue with bitcoins?

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Not only you does experiencing this kind of problem but all of bitcoin users does really have delay confirmation times because as you can see on the unconfirmed transactions its almost 100k as of now which means miner will be slow enough to confirm to those transactions even you put high fees it would still take how many hours.

Waiting is virtue dude, I have also a transaction made 2 days ago and never confirms until now. And upon seeing the unconfirmed transactions, minutes from now it will reach 100k and this is really a disaster I guess. This is the first time I've ever seen since I entered this technology. I don't really know what happens to the network, if there's already transactions got confirmed.

This issue on delay in confirmation time is taking place for the second time. During the massive increase in price which happened just before the inspection on bitcoin exchange by PBOC the same problem happened. This time too it has taking more time even if increasd fee is placed.

I have this kind of problem too but I know it's just only the batch of transaction that has the problem. I recently have a 4 transaction in the past few days and I only have one transaction who is not confirmed yet until now. Ive sent it on February 21 in our time . But the transaction that I sent on Feb 22 takes only a minute in order to finish the transaction. Maybe it's just the batch of transaction who is being traffic.

The network is congested again, 100K of unconfirmed transactions is too much. This should be fixed immediately or new  bitcoin users will get frustrated waiting for their transactions to confirm.

https://blockchain.info/en/unconfirmed-transactions
fast confirmations are getting very expensive.

but it's "normal". every time bitcoin start to pump, people start to do way more transactions and that happens.

many of my friends who complain about the bitcoin confirmation that the longer especially wallet in blockchain, and while I have not done bitcoin transactions until there is good news about the longer of confirmation bitcoin

One of the factors that is holding bitcoin back the most in my opinion is the inability to process as many transactions necessary to facilitate it's own growth. If you send transaction with a low-fee, forget about it.. If you send it with a normal fee it has taken 2+ hours on average for me... I haven't even bothered with a high-fee because I'm not flossing like that.

i seriously doubt that there is anything normal at all about a 92,000 unconfirmed transaction. a normal growth would have been 20 to 30K tops. this number is unreal and a spam attack for sure.

yup probably spam attack

i hope bitcoin unlimited wins

2 days is a long period, didn't u pay higher transaction fee or maybe transaction fee is still considered low compared to the transfer size. But how long will this continue if we fail to accept segwit and LN? This does not encourage a regular daily transaction

First of all you need to paste your bitcoin adress from or for you made transaction .
It may be possible that you didn't pay sufficient transaction charge for your transaction amount .
Secondly it may be possible at the time of transaction the node in bitcoin ( block of the Bitcoin node ) were not all online .
So probably it may be possible your transaction is not involved in the block ( but this condition usually not observed by the most of the transactions)
Third possible reason is , may be some problem facing by the trading site , that didn't count your transactions .
So here I will suggest you to see the confirmation status if all thing is good then contact trading site .

Huge volumes are to be expected from here on in, especially because the price has seemed to stabilize at the four digit level, and there’s really no reason right now for the price to plummet suddenly. Patience and higher fees are our weapons for now, and for as long as the price keeps climbing, I think the price to pay for transactions can easily be offset. I will try to make another transaction one of these days and see for myself if I'll encounter the same thing that some of you had.

Yes, there some to be a lot of unconfirmed transactions currently haha I am actually waiting for a 35$ Bitcoin transfer for a day now ugh :( eh but its always when I wanna buy Bitcoin that this happens just my luck I guess  ???

Don't worry there are thousands of people experiencing this kind of thing.  The problem is the transaction fee.  I also experience this and took me more than 3 days before it confirmed.  It was dropped by blockchain.info so I need to check the status using other blockchain explorer.  Then eventually it was picked up by miner and confirmed.  I am glad i do not need to resend the transaction.

i too is experiencing this some kind of delay.. i am waiting for a payment from the task i made yet its been six hours and so already and it still pending. when i looked at it, the sender only put a smaller fee what is why it taking a lot of time to confirm. we dont have to worry mate beside its not only us who is experiencing this. thousands of us maybe. the price has been stable for weeks now for 4 digits. so the best thing to do now is just to wait (and pays a higher fees as well).. this might be over soon and all of our transactions will be confirmed. just have more patience mate.

I would surely want to see some evidence that this is a true statement, because this sounds a bit fishy to me. Yes, there are currently spam attacks and miners fees are higher than usual, but 48 hours sounds like a huge exaggeration to me. I have send tx's with much less fees, and it was confirmed.

Take a screen capture of the tx's and blank out the Bitcoin address, so that we can confirm this please.

Theres nothing connection on which web wallet would you use since they are just linked into the same blockchain and confirmation times nowadays would really be long and seeing on the network traffic its 100k which means it would be very long for your transaction to be confirmed.

I can confirm that confirmation now took a lot of time to happen I sent two one from coin.space wallet and the other through my electrum wallet and both transactions are not yet confirm and it's been over 24 hours,this is not the first time i experience this 20 months ago had the same issue but I eventually get it after 48 hours.

very often. I use blockchain wallet.. I sent at least 0.03 btc and I use fee 0.0003 btc. but within 2-3 days. I have not received one confirmation
I think it's been too annoying

Yes, Bitcoin confirmation times and rates has been the headache of many in recent weeks and I'm tempted to say that it is making our beloved cryptocurrency unpopular by the day and I hope the developers come up with something quick to remedy this situation so that the delays and monetization of Bitcoin will cease.

You're making a common mistake of not adjusting the fee.
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ As you can see here currently you need to set it to over 0.0008 / byte to be above the majority and get a fast confirmation. I used to send transactions with 0.0002 fee last year and they had no problems going through, but this year people started pumping the fees like crazy and the smallest fee is probably something above 0.0004, if you go below that you could be waiting 2-3 days for a confirmation.

My transaction too has not been confirmed for over 24 hours: https://blockchain.info/tx/85c97faeaae2889212a7adff521ef1d6d5ab9706a3c31214ae9363591d983dab

I don't know why a $7.5 transaction consumes 522 bytes, which means it would require minimum $0.55 as fee. It's almost 8% of the transaction amount which I would need to spend as a fee which makes bitcoins expensive and lose its value.

Using xapo/coinbase makes confirmations faster as they apply a 112 satoshi/byte fee else we need to spend 8% per transaction.

Even Coinbase is taking several hours, to not say half of a day, to complete a transaction. It's really bad currently and i am not agree to pay a 8 percent fees

yea we all are facing the problem of long time of confirmation if we pay less transaction fees. as because already there is a long que of about 40 to 80 thousand unconfirmed transactions and we are one among them so the one who pays high fees will get the transaction confirmed faster and don't worry it will get verified soon.

78 hours for me with blockchain ???

Probably due to recent price pumping that increases the number of transactions were made thus make the delay occur to the network. Pretty disappointed by the speed of confirmation nowaday honestly, but there's nothing I can do. The best way is just making your fee higher than usual, it's sure working.

This is why bitcoin SUCKS! Time to switch to something better  ;D

p.s im also in this mess of unconfirmed transactions with blockchain and its been nearly 48hrs. I made a payment this morning with another coin (not mentioning) and it took what 20 seconds?

Im frustrated with btc

Another thread with the same problem.. Guys please read threads before starting a new one. Everybody in this mess right now and finding a solution. Paying more fees will less your waiting time but that cannot be a permanent solution.  ::)

Paying more fees is NOT a solution, switching to another coin is the solution.!

All the other coins right now,does not have the same adoption and community support like what Bitcoin is now enjoying,tell me what coin do you have in mind that you can cashout without converting it first to bitcoin and what other crypto currency that has wide spread adoption like Bitcoin.

Well, just to make an example if you have a coinsbank account you can cashout LTC on your coinsbank credit card.
The problem is that all other coins are not as popular as bitcoin, but once we will have alternatives i think many will switch over to altcoins.

Seems that the blockchain do have a problem again on processing too many transactions, that is why many transactions are not yet confirmed since the last two days. Everyone is thinking that they have lost their bitcoin and would not receive it anymore because two days have already pass, yet they don't receive it.

But it is not true, they will receive it as soon as this problem will be fixed, and this is not the first time that this situation happens to the blockchain, the reason behind this is because of too many transactions by the rapidly growing of the bitcoin users population.

yes actually network is a bit too busy these days and hence I also faced this issue though I realized it next time and paid 0.0003 btc fees and it got confirmed in next 2 blocks. But bitcoins being 1100$ it feels pain paying 30 cents.

So I finally got an answer why my $15 transactions hasn't been confirm for the last  36 hours if I've known that there's an ongoing issue like this I would have set the fees to a much higher so i can get it even in two hours,but now with so many transactions going will I ever get my bitcoin..

You are not the only one. Bitcoin network is currently facing heavy transaction load. Around 93k transactions are currently unconfirmed.
https://blockchain.info/en/unconfirmed-transactions

You need to pay more than normal transaction fee to get faster confirmation, that is you need to pay higher fee if you want your transactions to get confirmed faster.

No, coinbase is adding a very high fee for transaction and same goes for Xapo. I noticed that they are paying 0.0009 btc for every transaction so that it gets confirmed soon (transactions take 5 minutes to get confirmed). But still it's not worth to pay such high fees for a transaction as low as 0.01 BTC.

Ya you are actually right I received some funds in the middle it was talking 10 min so I was like I'll use the funds and then go but 15 minutes passed away still nothing happened. When I came back after 30 min the transaction was still confirming, so I don't think you are the online person who is actually facing a delay for the transactions to confirm.

Bitcoin transaction is very slow, i send $20 of bitcoin to my another wallet and even after 2 days of waiting it doesn't seem that it gets confirmation and until now i'm waiting for that transaction to confirm because of my expenses that badly needed to pay as soon as possible.

This type of problem can be a factor why bitcoin is not getting the 100% of interest of other people since this confirmation time can be a downside and turn off for future investors, I hopes that this problem will be fix and the transactions will be faster than now.

So, Bitcoin doesn't seem to be the best platform to take advantage of the microtransaction markets at this time.  That application is what was appealing to a large number of bitcoin adopters.  At this point, the microtransactions seem to be bloating the system....Is anybody working out a solution....will this effect the remittance markets if transaction fees continue to increase?

Well that's good idea to pay more fee for your transactions but in this isue how if the transactions was sent and the sender didn't remember to add more fees. I think it was too late to add more fees to get faster transactions.

I heard first time that few users transaction take too much longer time as 78 hours or days but i do not faced like this any problem that transaction time take 78 hours and sometime I think just few users faced these problem and maximum users bitcoin transaction goes very smoothly in few minutes.

There is no assurance when sending bitcoin to other address or there is no exact time that your transaction will be confirm fast.
Increasing can help but sometimes it takes longer time. this is just what i experience..
Now i am now changing the process and use the bitcoin transaction speeder. where i found in this forum sometimes its not working but most of them are working when i am sending bitcoin in other address..
I dont need to pay more high amount of fee..  here is the address where we can speed up https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/

it's not that common for a tx to be stuck for 48 hours I've to say, I have one stuck for ~3 days but that was a website's fault for sending using low fees (and using unconfirmed funds), so it took time.

The blockchain is slow now, but that long is abnormal, what were the fees? and can you share the txid?

Bitcoin has had this problem for quite some time, but every time there is pump you can expect the problem to get even worse for the simple fact more people begin to move their coins around so they can get some profits.

The size of the mem pool is sometimes ten times as high as it is on other days.
I'm not sure if that is normal behaviour, some people suspect a spam effort behind this.
Personally, now I look up the size of the mem pool every time befor I make a transaction.
If the size is too high, I make the transaction on another day.

Sorry to hear that. I haven't been having any problems sending or receiving Bitcoin. Seems completely fine to me, but for the rest of you, it doesn't seem so fine.
What kind of fees have you guys been using? I normally use around 30k satoshis and it seems to work fine. Hopefully the problem gets solved soon though, don't want there to be a huge backlog.

The whole time I have been using Bitcoin, I have never waited for a transaction to take over a day. This really needs to get solved if Bitcoin wants a chance of going mainstream.

Nope, if you realize and always watch the unconfirmed transaction on the blockchain at the same time with high traffic of the bitcoin network. and if you're sending your transaction through the exchange site with the fixed fees and you will get this problem.

lately it is often the length of bitcoin get 1confirm. I myself Samapa 12 hours have not signed into your account in order to quickly . solution is raising the delivery fee. This may occur because more and more are using bitcoin

Took 4 hours when I made a transaction several days ago, and I don't like it. Gave me a scare. I thought it was gonna be one of those that takes over a day to get confirmed.

I knew there might be trouble since there's an unprecedented high with the number of unconfirmed transactions.

Unfortunately, the funds were already in a coinbase wallet, so, I practically had no control on what fees to use. (There's no option to set and pay for your own fees) Nothing I could do but hope coinbase wouldn't fuck up with the fees. (like blockchain.info often do)

Immediately after, I went hunting for a better web wallet where I could set my own fees. (Definitely not blockchain.info though.)  :D

Most of us are having this probelm of tx not confirming on time. I am still waiting for my transaction to be confirmed for 4 days and still its not confirmed. Even i used the high fee using my electrum wallet but still something is wrong as it is taking too long to confirm.

I also have a friend same as happen into you, his waiting for confirmation for  more than 1day  so your not the only one experience it, But it's already confirm now .it's too hassle waiting for too long confirmation mostly when your In a emergency need it.

We are all facing the same situation right now. Because of the bitcoins price hit the $1200 per bitcoin, I am sure that many of us converted our bitcoins into fiat and send to our fiat wallet, resulting this many transactions that is being simultaneously being processed in the blockchain, that is why each transactions take some time to be confirmed.

But no worries, since it is only natural because it is not the first time this thing happen to all of us. This problem will be fix as soon as possible because it can't be like this forever, and there's no such thing like forever, so let's just be patience about this and we are going to received the money that we transferred to our fiat wallet and so on.

this time, bitcoin transactions do occur so slowly. knows what makes it even slower. might interest people using bitcoin is growing rapidly, so it is a lot of transactions that take place within a few minutes. it makes transactions happen so slowly. so, I think, a reasonable case for more than 48 hours.

due to high demand of bitcoin and lot of users , bitcoin transactions gets slow but I didn't experience yet having it confirmed on 2 days, though I remember I experienced it for 1 day.

This confirmations are getting slower and slower months after months but i think the reason why it is getting slow is the volume of the transactions and the network cannot confirm it all. If this problem will not be solve before the next halving then this will be the reason why bitcoin will fall in the future years.

Yes, this situation continues to occur, the current, the transaction is choked again, it was not handled quickly. I had to wait more than 18 hours for the transaction is confirmed, this is really bad sins. I'm wondering when this came last? Managers did not give the best measure

You should know, even before buying bitcoin and diving into such an adventure, that there is a way transactions are regulated. Fees are this regulation. Only so many transactions can be confirmed every 10 minutes, and depending on how much you pay, the higher your priority. Usually, the average fee is about 0.0001, but recently, it is around 0.0002-0.0003.

The monetary value of the transaction is irrelevant, if the size of the transaction is too big and the fee is too low it may take a lot of time to confirm the transaction if it gets confirmed at all.

I still not understand what you want to say here. If the size of transaction is bigger, we can expect that more transaction will be added to a block and more transaction will be confirmed.
Nowadays, we have witnessed a hundred thousand bitcoin transactions can not be confirmed. therefore, increasing the blocksize is the best idea

I had mine confirmed after 4 days I have to rebroadcast it,there were to many transactions in line I thought it's not going to confirm,but on Yobit I had my withdrawal in 2 hours only,maybe because the fee is high enough to get accepted in the blockchain,I hope it get fix we cannot go on like this the whole year.

Just another attack on Bitcoin with fees rising to the moon again and txs taking forever to confirm. Happens every once in a while, but the best you can do is to use your own node to get it processed quicker or try to put a higher fee on a transaction. It's a huge PITA but it just happens and for now not much is being done to stop it.

I think for the transaction will be faster when you just find a new transaction under 15k at least you will not wait too long to get confirmation
https://blockchain.info/id/unconfirmed-transactions