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I don't ever remember a transaction taking so long. It has been 3+ hours, my VPN subscription payment is long overdue. Is anybody else having this issue?

If you're going to moan about how I should pay more fees, then please don't waste your time by posting

Honestly higher fees are just a workaround. What really needs to be done is we need a larger block and we need the Blockchain spamming to stop. Someone has an agenda to get their version of a larger block activated but I'm not sure who to blame.

Technically yes, you needed a higher fee but that's only because bitcoins as a whole right now are waiting for a solution. If the pissing contests could end we would already have a solution.

Thanks for your input. Do you know the average time for a transaction? I sent the same amount I have been using for a year by accident (around 42 cents in BTC)

What's  been placed as fee is quite low. On an average bitcoin transaction now really needs a bigger fee to get faster confirmation. Because as the price is peaking the buy nd sell orders have increased much which is the key factor for much lagging in the transaction on the network.

It really normal to take hours in making a transaction with so many transactions happening every split second maybe it's a valid reason to just be patient by the ways i have no issue in receiving i always receive any transaction but it take hours but that's fine. In my bitcoin wallet you can pay high fee for a fast transactions but i always take the fee even it take 12hours.

use a bitcoin wallet that is capable of suggesting a proper fee for you to get a fast transaction. stop using whatever you are using if it does not.
read more about how much fee is appropriate based on mempool size here: https://bitcoinfees.21.co/
blockcyphey also has a neat suggestion: https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/

Blockchain transaction's time depend on its fee and its amount. The lesser the amount of btc, the longer of time it would get confirmed and the larger the btc being processed, the shorter it would get confirmed since you will pay higher fees in larger amount of btc being transacted.

Use https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
And put your transaction id there to get confirmation faster if you like. But this doesn't ensure your transaction will be confirmed soon, you have to wait till viabtc will mine next block.

You are worried about 3 hours delay.But i sent 0.05 btc to my localbitcoins account witha transaction fees of 0.0007 btc.Three days have gone.Still it has not reached.I dont know how many more days i would have to wait for.Every day,atleast for ten times,i use to check up whether transaction has been completed or not.We should never lose hope in life.So i hope that atleast it would get confirmed today.

That tool actually doesn't really help that much, it's always full and when people are in the emergence of waiting for the confirmation and currently having the bills which are timed, then the tool will be useless.
The only way is to set up a fee and above current recommendation so it'll be included in the block ASAP overtaking the rest which has below fees.

This happens every time the bitcoin price goes up.
I think that this is a way to reduce speculation bubbles with the bitcoin price,but it isn`t
very convenient for the average user.

No doubt that fees in the bitcoin transaction is increases to about 10 times that was about one to two years ago because in the current time everyone has the competition to confirm his payment or transaction as much as possible so due to this reason they are paying high and no doubt that the miners gives the preference for the confirmation of the transaction that have high fee payment .
Now just forget anything , if you paid 0.0001btc for the transaction fee then don't worry . Just go at viabtc.com and out your transaction id and write the captcha words in the box and then click submit and now wait for 1 hours , surely 1 to  2 confirmation will done .
Best of luck .

No.

The amount of time it takes to receive a confirmation is directly related to the willingness of the user to compete with other users hoping to append the block chain in a timely fashion.

It will only take ages if you aren't very competitive.

You can always look at here https://bitcoinfees.21.co/. Same thing on where BurtW said, taking a look on those guidelines will surely help you up on what would be the recommended fees on each transaction you would wait.If you end up paying below then expect confirmation would really be long compared on paying up the average or even high.One thing that do affect slow confirmation times even you up high fees is the spam attack on the network which really piss me off.

One block of BTC about 10 minutes, but now there are many transactions waiting for the number of transactions increased rapidly, you want to confirm your transaction is early, you have to use a reasonable fee!

Yes, my recent transaction took almost 24 hours to get confirmed and that too after requesting that transaction to viaBTC transaction accelerator. I am against paying high fees because I believe that there should be a concrete long-term solution if we really want to address this critical issue. Bitcoin has a very good opportunity to grow in next few years but such things are kind of obstacles in the growth of bitcoin, imo.

Yeah the transaction confirmation and high fees is a problem nowadays core devs must do a solution regarding this problem now :/ or else bitcoin is the most slowest and expensive payment method in the world.

Here is my situation happened few days ago:
Few days ago, I sent 0.01 btc to bitvest (which I gamble most of the time) and pay a little fee I think it's 80 satoshi per byte and It took a day and a half to confirm my transaction with viabtc txaccelerator.

It's not about the price of bitcoin but about the users that keep making bitcoin transactions and the miners can't keep up with the amount so the transactions stack up causing a slow confirmation time.

Average time for a transaction to confirm is 46 minutes.
Source : https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

The mempool is bloating to a new record size (70 MB), probably due to spammers: https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=60days (https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-size?timespan=60days)

These days, it's probably wise to check this chart before sending any coin...

Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool
Date: 5/3/17 08:27
To: trezor 15ZW6Ah5bMrnTRbXeTTXPgKkQmn2dmQCDe
Debit: -0.59000000 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00231872 BTC
Net amount: -0.59231872 BTC
Transaction ID: dae8c826e2cc360fe2d819545ec81db98a7dc722a4e1b58efe72299c54b6ce54
Transaction total size: 3025 bytes
Output index: 0


its been two days alrady still no confirmation how please help.

I also use bitcoin back in the days and it is still fast but now it is not that fast and it takes a lot of time. I think its because of the volume of users that are keep increasing everyday because of the tons of news about bitcoin and a lot of people are also getting interested because of its high price so i think the network is overload now so that is why transactions took too long to confirm.

yes, agree, it is not moving. im using bitcoincore wallet.
what do i need to do. ?.
any suggestion would be highly appreciated.

Thank you

Just wait for it to appear in your wallet, theres nothing we can do about that, or if you want to appear much faster, pay the fee, and it can appear in less than 15-20mins. But i suggest you to just wait for it and not pay for the fee. Because before, i experienced i sent a small amount of bill, and pay the fee, i was shocked because the fee is much expensive than what i sent,  I'm totally pissed at that time, so im suggesting you not to pay the fee and use the free if you dont want it to experience.

I had a transaction the other day take 2 full days to confirm, and have another one currently on it's 2nd day. Beat that.

then are you have low fee for that right?

As I know, the time to confirm a transaction at this time is about 30 minutes for a fee of about $ 0.5. If the lower fee charge can take from 1 to 3 hours! Longer can be up to 1-3 days

thanks for the word of comfort guys, but hopefully this will go through...
but when you put low fee already on the transaction you cannot add new fee right ?

still nothing.


Status: 0/unconfirmed, in memory pool
Date: 5/5/17 23:19
To: trezor 15ZW6Ah5bMrnTRbXeTTXPgKkQmn2dmQCDe
Debit: -0.59000000 BTC
Transaction fee: -0.00231872 BTC
Net amount: -0.59231872 BTC
Transaction ID: dae8c826e2cc360fe2d819545ec81db98a7dc722a4e1b58efe72299c54b6ce54
Transaction total size: 3025 bytes
Output index: 0


any help how to do this 4 days now :(

I thought I was the only one facing this issue until now. Just few days back when I made a transaction, it took forever for it to confirm and stood 0 confirmation for several hours despite the fact that I even paid extremely high transaction fees. It got to a point that I was considering acceleration due to the reputation on the line as a result of the delay but the price I was told made the fees more expensive and my fear is if this should continue, I see abandonment of bitcoin gradually to a more cost friendly crypto.

I've read quite a bit about these complaints of transactions taking long to confirm.  I have to say, i have not encountered it at all in any of my transactions the past week, although it might be because my transactions are worth next to nothing  ;D ;D

It is not about amount you are sending, it is all about the size/fee ratio.

More than 10 hours ago I sent $93 worth of BTC to an exchange wallet. I included fee of 0.0009816 BTC which was $1.52 USD at the time of sending.

Are we trying to break Guinness word record in number of unconfirmed transactions? Because I checked and we have like 150k pending TX.

This is ridiculous, it has been over 24 hours, I still have 0 confirmations. If only I knew, ugh. I would pay for my VPN again with the fee provided, but I already have the transaction in progress. I'm frustrated because of how helpless I am, it's ironic that one of Bitcoin's many selling points was "NO TAXES"

This shit's got to stop  >:( >:( >:(

Time is a commodity or, moreover, a [not-so] hidden tax when it comes to awaiting confirmations.

That is deep, I think you really just changed my perspective  :o :o

just skyrocket the price of bitcoin and spam stop ... because it's too expensive.





it's an antiSPAM.
a real one.
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so, pay the fees and ... http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img922/990/RNIjfO.gif

For the first time I have been waiting more than 14 hours for a tx, and counting...

Have you seen this chart? This is happening right now:

http://fotos.subefotos.com/db825372472e0a0a7f62291824b14bc3o.jpg

Distraction.

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Real data.

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Well, I ever wait for more than 12 hours to get a single small transaction (0.05BTC) to be confirmed when bitcoin reach ATH at $1300 few months ago. It's normal since we don't have bigger block size which simply cannot afford so much transaction within seconds and now unconfirmed transaction just reach 142K, so, you're among those people who waiting.

I think this is always happening if you are paying a default or a fee that you are using before not a good idea if the price is increasing.. its always happening to me that every time the price was increase there is the possibility that they will ask for higher fee.

Like the other chart shown above i also check most people are paying higher fee if you can see the chart in blockchain starting from april 30 . the chart acting to increase and  jump more high .. means i think we should go to pay for higher fee if we don't want to wait for a long time..

That's the tactic for wallets to earn also since bitcoin value now increases, for us to verify or confirm our transaction we need to pay ,which there's no need since some of my transactions were not that urgent to add some additional payment.

wallet with a "default fee" must die.
variable fee is what Bitcoin network ask.

Bitcoin Core do this perfectly ... and congestion period is nothing.

May have to queue because many are using it :D :D :D :D

Did you try to use viabtc tx accelerator? Just copy your txid there and viabtc will include your transaction in their block that they found. Or try to rebroadcast the transaction so the nodes don't drop your transaction aside that, there is nothing we can do with your problem.Next time use a higher fee to confirm your transaction faster next time.

In the past few days the average transaction fees you need to broadcast has increased and one of my transaction is rejected by the node because of lower transaction fees after a few days and have to rebroadcast with a higher fees,i think you need to re broadcast with a higher transaction fees if you want it to be confirmed.

I am trying to use Viabtc accelerator for the past few days and it says that the submission are beyond limit,there is nothing you can do if you are providing lower fees.

It does takes so long for some transctions to be confirmed. Only way to get your transaction through the number of unconfirmed transactions is to pay an over sized fee. Before a 90 sats per byte is already fast but now it requires 200+ sats per byte more if you don't want to wait for hours or worse days.

Yes, the costs are too high and one of the purposes to use bitcoin is to escape the high fees from banks. Now it's the same thing, high fees everywhere. I agree with you, before it was 90 sats per byte, now 200 sats.
What will come next? It's becoming more expensive each new day, many bitcoin users are sad because of this situation.

Fees are getting higher, transaction times are taking longer.
The weakness of the current setup is finally being exposed and (hopefully) people realize that Bitcoin will never be the universal payment system to free the masses from the shackles of the oppressors.
Its still a way for rich people to get richer and buy things they probably don't need on the internet.
No one in Africa is going to be sending micropayments with fees like this. A lot of work needs to be done to achieve the dream.

This transaction is not in the MEMpool RULES.
You must leave the program open to regular emit this transaction.
Explanation with a TRUE example of this case : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1868604.0


http://btc.blockr.io/ don't see your TX.
https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin don't see your TX.
https://insight.bitpay.com/ don't see your TX.


You use WRONG fees policy on the Bitcoin network (or your program).
Stop open thread when you emit from a depreciate program or virtual wallet ...

fees are VARIABLE.
Depend of Network AND number of transactions in the emitted transaction AND the date of old transactions.

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You guys really like to agitate the situation. Transactions never takes ages... You just need to learn how much fee you gotta pay for the transaction to take place without delay. If you're not putting enough fee, there is no reason to complain on.

Then you don't know how transactions work. It's not the amount of BTC that you are transacting, it's the total size of your data/transaction (Inputs and Outputs) and transaction fees that really matter to the miners. You can transact hundreds of Bitcoin with a fee like 0.002BTC and it gets confirmed fast enough (of course there are many other factors that would delay the transaction being confirmed), if your data size is less than 1kb.
Mate, your transaction fees are low (pretty low if you consider the spam attack on the blockchain). Your transaction size is about 2.95kb which requires a total fee ranging between 0.003BTC-0.005BTC to get confirmed. This has been caused because you re-used your address with many lower transactions that caused the huge size of inputs.

On topic, And what should we do? That's why we are begging the developers to get a consensus fast to solve this matter, which keeps anyone away from Bitcoin because it's really annoying, at the moment.

Yeah nothing is happening... just keep cool and watch how everybody else but is having problems.
Fees are already killing micropayments and people are still saying.. just pay a higher fee.

Why the hell should I pay a higher than 50 cents fee for paying 8$ for a vpn?
Just label bitcoin as investment only coin not to be used for under 1000$ payments and be done with.

Today i have withdrawn BTC from mercatox and still its pending. Also i cant able to use Viabtcaccelerate . God knows when the transaction will be confirmed!!

I think taking a long duration against any transactions are becoming a common problem at all. Last couple days I'm noticing it so high, sometimes it takes 10 to 12 hrs for getting one confirmation. It's completely don't depends on your transfer fees, it's must be a problem on the block network.

I had a terrible time getting my BTC confirmed the last couple of days and had to put two through the accelerator process. I am always paying advanced fees as well so am not stingy with the miner fees either sigh.  :'(. I hope the scaling problem is sorted out very soon otherwise other alts will take the place of Bitcoin for smaller transactions.

LoL! You are talking about 3+ hours, let me welcome you to 3 days league. System recommended fees has reached its all time high and as far as I remember touched $0.82 to get transaction confirmed in 10 minutes. Last 5 of my transactions had taken around 2 days to confirm.
Time to say goodbye to Bitcoin for daily transactions, switch to Ethereum, the best alternative.  ;)

Technically you need to pay higher fees to have your bitcoin transaction confirmed faster so why not talk about that? However, You may want to use some bitcoin transaction accelerator like Viabtc or Pushtx. You may find it useful for your transactions.

I think you receive a lot of small transaction and then you send out a big amount. That is the major reason for your higher fees but it will help you to make your transaction faster.  

i have also issue with the delay and the bad thing added up is the problem with resync of ccex wallet i have some btc there which already been hanging for past 3 days now and still showing waiting for confirmation, yobit withdraw took 2 days now ccex wallet took 3 days + to confirmed my deposited btc.

I could also join the club, have three transactions that are not confirned for more then 36 hours. Some say that the fee should be at least 0.0006 BTC to get confirmed in reasonable time. Is this some kind of miners blackmail? I used Viabtc but this haven't helped because they are so overloaded with requests and the transactions just can't be submitted.

Viabtc is not some magical tool that suddenly  confirms your transactions.
They will just include your transaction in their block (if they mine one) and if (they have enough space for yours also).

And right now they are also at maximum capacity.

If things continue this way we might soon pass over 1$ fee for transaction.



No , it's just that there are people paying more than you do:).
And if we continue a financial fee battle over 1 mega of space every 10 minutes we'll pretty much have to pay fees that exceed the ones the banks have right now.

Just to add that I have put 0.0004 fee for 0.002 transaction and this is not low fee and I still can't get the transaction confirmed. And of course that Viabtc doesn't have some magic powers so I'm afraid there is nothing I could do but just sit and wait that my transactions will get confirmed soon.

To be accepted in the mainstream realm to purchase goods and service a transaction has to be confirmed instantaneously, the same as a credit or debit card transaction. If you
want to replace the current paradigm then you must meet or exceed it.

I am not a coin developer so looking from the outside in, is it possible to develop a protocol to verify the coins in a btc account ahead of time so when they are spent, the transaction is verified instantly?

I used to face this issue earlier. Inspite of adding the correct fee, it used to take 6+ hours to get 1 confirmation and as I need to wait for 3 confirmations, 8 hours was the minimum wait. Honestly, earlier transactions with 30-50 sats/byte used to confirm within an hour but now it takes days. Viabtc can help to confirm the transaction within 24 hours but still it's not used if transactions need to be confirmed on an urgent basis. You just need to pray that a miner accepts your transactions.

Not really i see many transaction just take almost an hour but it's really depend on how much fee you pay if you pay high fee that gonna be a fast transaction for you if you dont pay fee it will take 12hours to confirm.

Yup this is clearly a real big issue, The reason bitcoin became popular was because of almost no transaction fees, Micro transactions are a myth now.. Devs really need to solve this problem, Or Bitcoin can't be the solution for the masses. It will become a tool for Elites.

As for the other guy who said that for 0.59 BTC the user must send around 0.003 - 0.005 BTC that is not what BTC was meant to be. Tell me why shouldn't i paypal some one instead of using btc if i am going to give $5-$8 in transaction fee. I can transfer for free via Friend and Family. Doesn't makes sense for me.

Bitcoin needs a solution or something else will replace it.

It is a serious situation,the price of bitcoin is reaching at an all time high situation and look at the transaction fees we are giving out and compare it to fees we were providing when bitcoin started or six months back,in an economic stand point ,the transaction fees we are giving out now are not fare considering the core concept of bitcoin.

Nope, it takes forever to confirm. I already paid 240 sats per byte and it is already 24hrs since and still unconfirmed. How much more fee do you want me to pay? No one benefits this fee hike but the miners.

Are you serious that with a fees with 240 sats per byte takes more than 24 hours to confirm ,i am sending coins for the past few days and i am using 240 sats per byte fees and it got confirmed in a couple of hours,the only transaction which is delayed is when i entered a lower fees as it is still pending.Transaction fees are increasing and miners will be happy to collect more fees.

precisely sometimes using high fees does not imply that your transaction will get confirmed super fast like in your case its over 24 hers and not confirmed

You could try to accelerate it through viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/

It seems that the ViaBTC accelerator may have worked. I have no reason to believe that it was the accelerator that made my transaction go through though, it could just have been the time period, I'll never know.

Thank your friendly neighborhood core devs, who thought full blocks and a 'healthy fee market' was a great idea. 

Time for bigger blocks.  Maybe segwit later...but bigger blocks now to buy us time..otherwise bitcoin will just lose to alts. no one will put up with this shit for long.

Sad to hear this, try some alt coins in making transaction if needed an urgent confirmation. Bitcoin now can't tolerate the number of transaction since of its value increase. I have heard some alt coins worked well now.

Yeah I agree that we need bigger blocks because 1MB block can't handle 250k-350k transactions per day but we should try segwit first because I think it's right thing to do at the moment and LTC has gained more because of segwit. If segwit doesn't work, then hard fork will do.

Segwit is one of the best solution that we have in option and i think the segwit on litecoin is just a trial and if it becomes successful then bitcoin will try it also and we will have a bigger blocks and have a more efficient transactions. The another good thing about segwit is, it will help the price to get higher because a lot of investors will treat segwit as a good tool for bitcoin and they will invest more.

It has nothing to do with price...
It has to do with competition for the space in the new block.

If people would stop using bitcoin for 2 hours I doubt the price would go down by more than 1 cents but the mempool will get cleared and cheaper or even free transactions will go through.

Even a 25% capacity increase in the network would solve these problems.... for now.

well it might be a problem with the amount of fess you are putting up for the transaction, i once put a small amount and it took 10+ hours to confirm

I can feel what you feel and I have been suffering from huge miner fees this days. Before I am just paying 1k satoshi to 20k satoshi but today the minimum miner fee is 20k satoshi and it is increasing to 200k satoshi. With this huge miner fees I am no longer doing small bitcoin transactions and that is causing me some delays but still I love bitcon and I find ways so I can save from the huge miner fees.

Theres many transaction also is not yet confirm its because I think the price of bitcoin is very high as of now.  Thats my friend said to me last night and I think the priority if low and high . And I think the transaction fees if the fees are high I think you need to wait only 30 minutes to 1hour only while the low fees 2 hours and up . Last 3 days ago My transaction not confirmed I wait 2 days before its confirmed. I hope all transaction confirmed.

Transaction delays another major factor of using bitcoin Most of the time it is attributed to miner fees I think It.s high time authorities consigned should do something about it because it may cause mistrust between a sender and a receiver of bitcoin, transaction should not be allowed to exceed at most 30 minutes.

Guys, I just tried ViaBTC's free "bitcoin transaction accelerator" and it appeared to work for me. (Google). Try it at the top of the hour b/c it has a manual request queue that fills up quickly.

My little story is here. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1743011.msg18915866#msg18915866

It is really difficult to use bitcoin now a days to send small amount of coins because of the increased transaction fees and even with the price of bitcoin at an all time high and with 0.002 means $2 it is not possible to send those without providing a higher fees which is really ridiculous and something has to be done to counter this as bitcoin is becoming the coin for the elite and the wealthy.

There's no way to change this but to activate segwit. All other scaling methods have been ruled out as stupid by all experts in the field. So if miners that are still not signaling segwit don't get with the board, you can forget about such tiny transaction. We will have to resort to LTC. Ultimately all coins will fail to deliver microtransactions onchain if they pick any notable traction, which is why LTC with segwit and LN will shine.

Viabtc accelerator always works but we have to beat other people in requesting the transaction to be pushed since it only allow 100 transaction per hour to be processed.  

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Transaction does not take ages to confirm, it is now tx fee based, the higher your transaction fee per bytes, the faster it will confirmed (this does not mean if you have high fee it will be confirmed asap since we need to consider how big the bytes of the transaction is).  I had my transaction's first confirmation within 10 min range, if lucky I got it in less than  2 minutes (time of finding block).  Meaning I had it confirmed on the next block found by simply adjusting the fee ( I have electrum wallet and set it to dynamic option).

I also experienced like that I send my earning in trading site to my online wallet but as of now its not yet confirm. The miner fee is good I send 0.035 and the fee is 0.0006 and I think is good amount to confirm the transaction fastly. 24 hours or 1 day . I hope my transaction confirm soon I can use my bitcoin to buy altcoin. I hope also the transaction of other confirm also because many people as of experienced like this .

Maybe you can checked the blockchain record so that you will be worried about the transaction if you can see the blockchain record even it is not confirmed it is surely go in your account.

It will go in our account for a couple of hours or more, but it guarantees that it will be transferred since it was already deducted on us upon clicking the confirmation to proceed. We just need to wait which is hard to do when were on urgent transactions.

Thanks a lot guys. At this stage a lot of information is being repeated so I consider this matter resolved.