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it's almost been 24 hours for me, sent through armory to betcoin.. says STILL pending. I used the usual fee that armory recommends.

https://blockchain.info/tx/16f39584638c642ea93cfc3b21ed20d44b91ad77b2596ec0a21240943a202fc0


this is status tracker right here and i only remember sending .0075 ...... the 3.68 USD looks like it went back into my wallet

Longest in my case is 12 hours. I always use the highest recommended fee to avoid ny transaction being stuck. I've seen some people took longer than a week to get their transactions confirmed. To avoid these cases you should consider the fee you use first specially these days.

I have known someone that takes 1 week and his transaction was not confirmed then it just return to his wallet so don't worry that much, all you need to do is wait then make another transaction again but try to add higher fee so it would be confirm immediately,

You paid 38.76 sat/B for this... what do you expect?
Check http://bitcoinfees.21.co/ your transaction is right now among 16k others with the same small fee.. and below thousands of others with a lot higher fees per byte.

There are chances you transaction might be even dropped and the amount will appear back in your wallet.

We are going through a tough period now, with all of the spam attacks and the scaling problems because of that. We will just have to push

through this BS and hope things will be a bit better after the 1st of Aug 2017, when the first phase of the scaling solution are put into place. The

harm that are being done by this situation that are being created by selfish people are not clear, but I think it is significant enough to stall our

progress going forward.  >:(

The longest time Ive encountered so far to confirm the transactions is 72hrs. Imagine it took 3days to confirm the transactions. Im hoping this will solved the issue as soon as possible.

Current transactions need to use a larger cost than usual, I believe this problem will not be long we experience and every day very bitcoin transactions

The unconfirmed transaction in blockchain is only about 58K which is way lower when there was a spam attack and yet the fee is still high. This is because most of the users are already used to paying high fees. The fee should go down if all the users start paying lower fees when unconfirmed tx are lower.

is there any way i can just cancel this transaction? reason i'm asking is because i like to bet online and it doesnt let me transfer form my main account to poker account while a pending transaction still going through

The number of transactions might be smaller but you should take a look at the size of it.
The tx have dropped from 200k to currently 65k but the size of the mempoool has dropped only from 100M to 70M.

People and services are combining their payments it seems


Send the transaction again with a bigger fee.
It will get confirmed and the other will just get dropped.

The longest time I had to wait was about 3 days and that was the same time everybody adopted the 1 confirmation protocol after the blockchain was  hit with transaction malleability attacks
 
does the type of wallet really matter when it comes to sending out your bitcoins??? I know most people denounce blockchain.info wallet for its low fee suggestions... aslo being the cause of some delayed confirmations

Well you need to adopt because the delayed confirmations have become a part of us and the Bitcoin community has no alternative as at yet so until a proper solution is found I will advice you to be patient and take things calmly.

well it's affecting my ability to transfer funds from my wallet to my poker wallet on this bitcoin gambling site I use... is there a chance that a .0075 transaction will be stuck forever??

In my experience the longest transaction that i ever made was 2 days even though i paid recommended fee, i ever saw a guy where his transaction stucked almost 8 days since he paid unsufficient fee. The point is if you want to get confirmed fast please pay higher fee than recommended fee since the higher fee you provide the faster confirmation you get. On the other hand some people prefer to pay less fee cause he won't spend too much satoshi only for a fee, i think it's ok if you're not in a hurry.

No..
Transactions either get confirmed in a matter of max a week (heard of a few taking even longer) or they will get dropped from the mempool and it will look like you never tried to send the coins.

You can either try and use an accelerator like viabtc (if you find a spot) or try to send the transaction again with a higher fee as I suggested.

The higher fee transaction will get through the current one will get dropped as being invalid.

how do I check the fee that was used? I am waiting on a confirmation from bitcoin someone sent me, and it's taking quite a long time.

It's surprising how some people have waited for so long for their transaction to be successful. I have never really had that issue since I started using bitcoin till date maybe because of fee though. Highest my transaction ever went was 5 hours but with all these negative complaint going around, it ain't a good thing at all.

I normally set my fee to high just because I want it to try get confirmed within the next two blocks and it usually happens very quickly you get your conformation I watch the blocks on blockchain after so long you refresh new blocks and transactions have been done and payment is complete. some people have had transactions stuck for longer periods of time too rebroadcasting should be done as a last resort in my mind don't manually set fees unless you know how to calculate them correctly .

If you are able to give a good transaction fees then it will get through and these complaints are from people who are sending the transactions with less fees and that is where the problem starts,anything below 0.0006 btc now a days is considered a low fees and it might wont go through and ends up reaching your wallet at a later time.

You can try to check the fee through your TXid. But just ask him to increase the fee through the bitcoin accelerator to make your transaction gets more priority on the bitcoin network.

Your transaction already signed on the bitcoin network, the possible way for you to use the accelerator. But if you can be patience and I may think your transaction will be forgotten by the network in the future.
Some service already offered accelerator service such as via accelerator.

I believe the fee is about 35 cents and he sent me $1700 in bitcoin. Is that a very low fee right now? I went to the viabtc accelerator a few hours ago and got accepted, but haven't gotten a confirmation yet. How would I ask him to increase the fee through the accelerator? How would he do that?

if I send it somewhere else, like to another address of mine, and pay a high fee.. would that help get confirmations?

If you fee is not affordable, you may have to wait up to 1 week or even longer because miners will ignore your transaction and choose transactions which have higher fee so that they can earn more bitcoin and if I am a miner, I will also do that

Regardless of how much he has sent to you (he could send you a million USD with $1-$5 fee, if it's one input and one output), the transaction total size is what determines the fees amount. And yes, your fees are way low that your transaction won't get confirmed.

ViaBTC accelerator is a free service provided by the mining pool to rebroadcast your transactions (giving it a priority). When you succeed in putting your transactions in the accelerator, you got nothing to do but waiting for a confirmation.

There is another solution, but better not to get involved in it, as it will probably make things worse — it's CPFP (Child Pays For Parent).

That is called a double spend, it may work, if you paid high fees. Try http://bitcoinfees.21.co/ to set the proper fees.
If you get greedy on fees, you will be stuck with a double spend, and zero confirmations for 2 weeks.

I succeeded a few hours ago with the accelerator. I put it in multiple times, I hope that didn't make it worse. It succeeded each time I did it.
I guess I will just wait. Let me know if you have any other ideas. I wish there was a simple way, I could just increase the fee on the receiving end.

Fee per byte    65.289 sat/B
thats the fee that was used. And I used the accelerator. Should i expect this to be confirmed within a few more hours? it's already been over 9 hours.

Your nothing compare in my transaction last month but today it came just less than 12 hours so the was really great i guess but just last month my transactions takes almost 1week before in already confirmed in my bitcoin wallet so that time i guess bitcoin is already dead and we need another cryptocurrency.

so i should always follow the advice for the fee from the armory program? I tried sending out .008 again and it just shows the transaction as pending on my bitcoin wallet but didn't even give me a transaction id so i can follow it on the blockchain

Transactions could literally take forever to go through sometimes, unless taken care of OFC. Sometimes they'd need to be rebroadcasted or outright resent, has happened to me several times.

One of my transactions went from an exchange that didn't adjust the Sat fee and was dropped after a week then relayed again and processed then after 3 days so slow...
But it really depends on the mempool state when the coin fee is sent.

It will not cause any issue even if you put it multiples times. I have experience doing this as well, paying a lowly 40-50 s/b and using the accelerator. Of course you can't do anything but to wait. But in a few hours my transaction was picked up and I get to see my btc on my wallet. Truly the accelator works you just have to have patience though.

Well I've a week and still I wait. This is becoming very annoying. Is it going to stay this way ? The transactions completely dead. Well it just eventually go through or sent back ?

5 weeks ago I have sent transaction with similar fee to yours - 25sat/byte (you paid only 38sat/byte) and my transcation is still unconfirmed. So you will have to wait a few weeks, maybe a month or two, maybe your transaction will even get rejected. If you want to speed it up, use some service that offers to push transactions with low fees.

The longest take it while in transactions that have to wait queue like the length of its highway.

Oh this is insane. What if someone can’t afford the higher transaction or what if the transaction amount is not too high and it is a small transaction with the normal fee and someone is in need for the money and waiting for the transaction to take place.
I guess this is only the fee game the higher one works on a priority base while the rest are just leave a side.

That is why bitcoin now can't function as a micro payment scheme. The higher transaction fee you put, the higher the chances that your transaction can be pick up by miners to be included in the next block. I just got lucky using 50 sat/byte during my last transaction and used viabtc to accelerate it and be pick up. But I haven't experience a week for my transaction to be confirmed. I'm sorry if you have to wait like this, but right now the only solution is to used high transaction fees so that your transaction can be processed quick.