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Title: Payment/transfer question Post by: zethreal on June 17, 2011, 05:23:02 PM I've been playing around with bitcoins for a couple of months and was wondering how long after a payment is made should it show up? I was told a payment was made roughly an hour ago but it isn't showing up in my wallet (not even as an unconfirmed transaction). Luckily this was a small payment (~$5 USD) so I'm not terribly worried. I was just wondering how long it may take to show up. Yes, my bitcoin wallet is up to date & has all current blocks.
Title: Re: Payment/transfer question Post by: kw71 on June 17, 2011, 05:26:30 PM Please tell more details. What is the status of your bitcoin client and how do you know a transaction was issued?
Sometimes, for instance, a website may not automatically issue the transaction but add it to some kind of queue for batch processing or manual review. Title: Re: Payment/transfer question Post by: zethreal on June 17, 2011, 05:33:58 PM Notification on the website states that the payment has been issued. My bitcoin client is running with 131460 blocks (which matches the bitcoins charts website) - not sure what else you mean.
I have one other transaction from when I first started using bitcoins that's currently showing something around 16,000 confirmations. I just sent a payment to myself & saw it instantly (although it says 0/unconfirmed - which I'm sure will change shortly) |