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I made a bitcoin transaction on the 2017-05-21 00:15:59 today is the 2017-06-12 8:26:34 that is 3 weeks (21days) yet the transaction is still unconfirmed and the bitcoins have not yet been returned to my wallet as others will suspect so am considering the bitcoins in the transaction stuck..

i have scared through the net for about 2 days now looking for solutions. i found soo many none of which could work in my case.
 
the first solution i saw was to use viabtc.com. which is a website that facilitates bitcoin transactions. but i when tried using them they said my transaction fee was too low.. Yes i blame my self on this because i intentionally set the transaction fee too low. this was because my transaction fee were getting alarming as i was receiving multiply small bitcoin payments which increased my number of inputs per transaction when i want to send btc. and since btc transaction fees are calculated based on inputs and outputs and not amount of bitcoin sent, my transaction fee had to increase. i paid equal amount of fee as the amount i wanted to send in  a particular transaction this is the hash of the transactions where i spent the same on transaction fee as the amount i wanted to send
f09a4f8165e622424cae9b2b0fbcb231688ec308336ab41dec2668f75181750b you can verify

it got so worse that i was to pay a transaction fee which was much higher than the amount of btc i wanted to send. so i ignored the warnings of bockchain.info wallet and went ahead and specified a small transaction fee.. here is the hash of the unconfirmed  transaction
41e96bf8db40818393ed3704a0de7dab97c5955f341644608a41e85a8007c3e5 you can

The second method i tried was the double spending method which i learned from bitzuma.com following the link below
http://bitzuma.com/posts/how-to-clear-a-stuck-bitcoin-transaction/
you can know more about this method by visiting the link above or this link
http://bitcoin-development.narkive.com/NgSiQBmM/bitcoin-development-first-seen-safe-replace-by-fee
 it is simple a path which some nodes on the network accept. they replace an old unconfirmed transactions with a new one following some particular criteria in an attempt to to allow people to increase transaction fee in the new transaction so that their transactions can be confirmed.
after following the lectures i discovered that it were only possible when a single btc address sends send coins (that was the only example i saw)
and i am using a third party blockchain,info which provide different addresses per transaction so for this single transaction i acctually used 7 different wallets so using the double spending method is quite challenging
i have tried a host of others i have seen paid options but i do not trust them
i hope i will get help  here
thanks in advance

Id suggest you to run the transaction through viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ (http://viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/) you just have to do it at a round number like 10:00pm, 11:00pm, etc... It helped me, it helped my friend and a few more people. Good luck.

Use accelerometer. Worked for me once.

accelataroer doesnt work now
it is paid, some ppl charge money for it now for large txns   

Ok.....


Fee per byte   6.144 sat/B

Which miner will take this ??




Now tell me, do U have access to 1GQFALjXF4byPWarUqQX6GynR1SMfW6Rpv ?

If yes, then send from that address to another address which U control, and add 0.0040 as fee. Manually.

This is called Child Pays For Parent


Now some miner will clear both 4 u...

Otherwise it is very tough to get it cleared now :(

Any question, pm me = )

@tyrannt and minecashe in case you didn't read his post he can't use viabtc because fee is too low!

OP i can only suggest you to send PM to this guy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1946761.0 he is speeding up transactions.

I didnt tell to use Via BTC... Via BTC is not accepting anything now
I had mining contract there  and only then they allow people to submit txn


I said another method CPFP

Yeah, my bad.

Well you can just try and wait untill it's returned back to you. Since you can't use viabtc because of the fee and since apparently it isn't working anymore, You can just wait... tho 21 days is a pretty long period.

I don't know any other way than this one so I can just tell you to wait it out and hope for the best. :/

During periods of congestion it's wise to use RBF.

Since its too late you need to shutdown the suspect wallet. Turn off your internet. Launch the wallet and delete the suspect transaction. Create a new transaction with a higher fee and save it. Shutdown the wallet. Wait 36 hours and then broadcast the transaction. You have now double-spent the old transaction out of the system and the new one will be mined.

I am wondering, how much did you send? The suggested fee was .0001 and for me that is not that bad. You said that you don't need to pay a fee more than the bitcoin you have sent, which I think is pretty small too. This is why we just need to follow the suggested fee for a transaction, we don't need to experience this, just take these as a lesson learned.

Wait for the coins to get back to your wallet when the transaction is dropped from the blockchain network. They send the coins with a fee of 0.003-0.005 and it should get confirmed within 2-3 days. That's the only option left as paid accelerators charge a fee which can be even more expensive for you since your tx size is 16276 bytes which is huge and viabtc is not accepting transactions as of now.


Kindly don't accept small transactions that increase the transaction size when you spend them and you end up paying a huge fee while spending the coins.

RBF depends on where he sent it from

If it is electrum, he has to enable it...

or edit the raw txn create a new one from coinb.in... bit complex for the amount involved

so safest IMP is cpfp, if he has control of wallet I said earlier


sorry no miner will accept 0.0001 fee now... they are rejecting even 0.0004 nowdays


to get correct fee: go to https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

and use : the fee given below:
for example:

For the median transaction size of 226 bytes, this results in a fee of 88,140 satoshis.

so he should put the fee as 0.00088140

the problem is this txn is rebroadcast many times as he is connected to network

now either he confirms it or it will keep in limbo for many more days


ideally for this txn, he must have used: 16276 * 390 = .06347640 for confirmation within 30 minutes
high txn as there is to much inputs

what time zone are you talking about sir?  because like said i tried the site earlier and the told me through a prompted massage that the transaction fee is too low

no that address is owned by an online merchant i do not have control over it

These days you can see more transactions getting stuck to the network. This is entirely the common thing that happens when price increase takes place. A perfect solution can be got only​ when the blocksize issue comes to an conclusion, rather than which using the transaction accelerator similar to viabtc is the only go.

The average bitcoin transaction as of today is 0.005 USD/per bytes as i remembered and it is not suitable for low transactions cause it will only ger stuck like yours, if you have sent a small amount of transactions you could have atleast send 0.001 so the blockchain network will not have a hard time confirming it. And another thing is that th cost doesn't calculate on how much you have sent but actually it the size of the data that is being sent. If a bitcoin scaling solution and lightning network gets implemented all this delays will be and it will also fix the malleability that bitcoin that has been having in many years.

i am using a third a party wallet from blockchain.org and for this single transaction they used 7 wallet addresses  to send the bitcoins. so it will get a little exciting to do what you are suggesting for the following reasons.
1.) its a third party account shutting  it down is another issue
 2.) they used upto 7 wallet to make the payments so doing the double spending is a little complicated

You do have a point, but this is just normal, this stuck transactions is always happening when there are too many transactions in the blockchain. We could just wait till this transaction of ours get confirmed because if this will just stuck on it forever, then we can't do anything about it, unless we are going to contact the support of a certain wallet that you have use or whatever it is just to send coins.

Then if their support can't reverse the transaction so that you could get back your bitcoin, then all you can do is to accept it that you just lost your bitcoin and move on, and think that you could get it back because you could earn more.

This is why:


1. dont use third party wallet

2. use a small change adress which you control


This txn is not a lot of money, so lesson is learnt  :)

In future, use good fees, and use a change address that you own that atleast has 0.01 in change, so that even if it gets stuck somehow, you can use CPFP

The transaction would be dropped within 1-2 months and it doesn't stay in limbo for years. The same happened with me once where even I added a 6 sats/byte fee.

Anyways, he has already got his transaction confirmed by paying 0.01477746 BTC as fee which was really huge for a transaction worth 0.02977738 BTC. Next time you can try with 50 sats/byte as even then your transaction does get confirmed within few hours.

The known solutions for this are simple, stop rebroadcasting the TX and if the wallet is automatically doing that, close it. That should make the TX disappear in few days when the nodes reset, and you will have the balance again to spend this time with better fees.
Electrum allow the user to resend with better fee to the same address, not a double spend but a higher fee TX, it's a built feature in Electrum.
if you use core or armory, using a double spend can work in some cases, and hence sending a higher fee TX.

First time I had stuck transaction O was in terrible panic and thought I would loose my funds with no return. Then I found out about viabtc that solved my problem. The only thing is that is hard to upload your transaction ID because of high volume of requests to them so you have to be quick and punctual. But viabtc is my solution, it works every time.

Viabtc has time interval better to send your bitcoin every 1 hour try to send again. To be able to sent you should send after one exact 1 hour not above sample its 02:45 pm wait for 15 minutes and exact 3 pm send your txid. im sure your txid will be sent just follow the forum time..
This is just base in my experience but just send every 1 hour. .or i'll try to send it for you soon this coming 3 pm..

Updated: When sending your TXID looks like the fee is too low.. that is why you can sent them..  how about this one https://pushtx.btc.com/#/
But they are asking for the fee.

First, use a wallet where you can control the fees, we have a software wallet for that purpose, I think Electrum.  That cannot always be done, and funds from an exchange can get delayed in various ways, from security holds, verification emails and SMS, and finally a small fee being used by the exchange. 

There are always many suggestions once a TX has been sent, from double spending to other services.  Basically, once it has been sent, the best course is to wait.  If you have used a service or site, make sure that you have been given the TXID, otherwise the TX may not have been sent yet.

Tried using multiple methods to solve this annoying problem, my issue was that with blockchain.info as the wallet, they will keep rebroadcasting the transaction infinitely so even waiting for it to be forgotten wasn't an option.
Tried uploading to multibit and then deleting and re-sending it, that did not work as everytime I opened the wallet after changing, it was corrupted.. ended up being pushed after 4 days.
Trying to download bitcoin core for the future, if I need to I can just delete the TX's.

Hi!
I  speed up your  transaction 41e96bf8db40818393ed3704a0de7dab97c5955f341644608a41e85a8007c3e5
Congratulations, your transfer has been credited

thank every one for the help
most specifically Docent85 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=989098 he speed up the transaction for me i do not know how but he did it...
any with same problem can go to him he is trusted.. you can now check the transaction again via the transaction harsh and you will see that it has been confirmed
once again thanks to all...

I tried viabtc for pushing transaction from pending to confirmation I tried couple of time it's not succeeded try you luck . It's completely deepened on what time your using

use this if viabtc is beyond limit https://www.antpool.com/user/prioritiseTransaction.htm?m=savePrioritiseTx

but if you are against antpool point of view, better to wait until the submission limit is done

Send me your transaction here or to PM, I will see in what problem

This is the only thing that i know that is working for me when i got stuck and unconfirmed transaction in the blockchain but remember that you need to have at least a good amount of fee because if you don't have then it will not be able to push (Based on my experience). https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ most of my friends uses that and if it says it is beyond the limit then wait until the next hour because they only refresh every hour. I hope it helps.

You can use blockcypher or another site to watch it.  I have seen a TX take 48 hours and that is the longest.  I like using blockcypher because of two things, you get the network information of how the miner software sees your TX and a lot more.  If you sign up on there, then you can provide a wallet address and get email or SMS alerts anytime your wallet address has a blockchain change, including new TX's and older TX's that are now confirmed. That way you can stop eyeballing it on the web and wait for an alert. 

Basically, watch it and don't mess around with trying to stop it.  It will confirm and when it does, make sure that you learn why it was slow and work around that in the future.

Same thing happened to me as well. I made a transaction many months ago (actually, received BTC). It currently has over 50,000 confirmations, but still says unconfirmed in my wallet.

which wallet are you  using because this case is strange
were you sending or receiving ??

cool i will try them out ..
hope no additional cost for their services because am already contented with what i have but i would not mine for a free advanced service
 :) :) :)

You most probably already got the amount sent. The reverse is not possible technically. Some people lie and they say that the transaction stuck even a high fee, but this is not true.

Maybe it need some sort of upgrade in the system but i need no one knows how it works if theyou blokchain still like this it will habe athe overloading transactions or maybe we also need a new currency or alternative for a transaction for us to make a psyment fast.

what he is saying is his wallet is still showing unconfirmed not that some one is telling him that the transaction is unconfirmed "at least as i understand"
if that be the case then the wallet he is using is to be blamed because a transaction can not be confirmed on blockchain yet the wallet is saying otherwise 

i did not quite understood you!
i think you are not a native english speaker "no offence"

There is a guy in this forum in the service section who sped ups transactions for free, i have used his services and it is very quick, you should research and find him , he will be able to help and he can give him a tip as well but next time use higher fees.

oooh that is great but i heard a of guy like that some time ago i researched and had contact with him but he didn't help i do not why and it's not sure if my guy is your guy
but i already found the solution i had to pay 5% of tx to one guy in forum to do it for me //
thanks for the help all the same   

An idea: Cant we create a fund for unconfirmed transactions and confirm them from oldest to newest slowly? I would sent a few satoshis for sure!

hello
 you sound interesting but i can't get you clearly please say it again but this time more elaborately with example(s) if possible
thanks

Free accelerators really works?

why not try them out? some will obviously work while others won't but i know paid accelerators which work.
this below will help you if you are looking for something for free

Hello,

Yes of course.

Imagine an online service where you pay a smaller fixed fee and thus would be guaranteed to have your transaction included in the next block the service provider mined.

So as a sender, instead of setting a fee that you think is high enough to be included in a block you would set a really low fee, minimum even, and then pay the fixed fee instead. The fee could in theory be paid with any currency, but most likely easiest with btc.

As a receiver you could easily get any stuck transactions included in a block by paying a small fee. There is no downside for a receiver.

The idea would be to have a person or a group of persons behind the service that run their own miners and mine in a pool to get their own blocks like any miner. But instead of, or apart from, choosing to process only the transactions that have the highest fees like most miningpools do, they would include the transactions that their clients would pay a fixed fee for.

This would possibly create a lower revenue for the miners then if they would mine "normally" but it would provide them with a steady stream of new clients, because nobody wants to pay more then they have to so by offering a lower cost it would quickly be able to become popular.

The same service could offer to include older stuck transaction for free chronologically with partly funds from donations made by its users (clients) and partly the revenue the service make. With the end goal of removing ALL unconfirmed transactions on the network. I am sure that happy users and clients would be happy to round of their payments upwards on the payment page if it was for a good cause like this.

Overtime and if made properly, it and its competition (usually when something works there will be copycats) could reduce the fees in general. Offering a cheaper alternative could lead to less congestion in the network overall.


Update: Maybe even make an ICO to get the startup capital  ;D

i understand and like your logic but  i am not a miner neither are my in any mining pool. so achieving this will be far fetch

do you have any plans on how to get miners on this?

as a matter of fact i already know people who will pay for this.

we need to look for a mining pool which sees at least  1 block in every two days. because what we want to achieve here is low tx fee and not speed   

@asonganyi
Still trying to get in contact with any miners that would think this would be a good project :)