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I sent 72$ worth of bitcoin with a fee of 12$ and its been 4hrs and still 0 confirmations..... what is going on can someone help me how long am i going to have to wait until it confirms??? I used breadwallet also.

High transaction volume.

What matters is the fee/kb. And indeed, the network is very busy. Just look at the mempool size: https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx and keep in mind that normal is usually under 10 MB.
Post your transaction ID and we can give more details. Also an idea would be to search around for the threads where people offer to accelerate transactions and ask them to help you out.

No, the transaction volume is very modest, lower than usual. What is unusual is the mining rate which is 40% normal because miners flocked to BCH which is for the next about 10 hours more profitable than BTC. 40% mining rate is like having a block of average 0.4 MB size.

Things will start to clear up slowly later today.

Are you from another parallel universe or something ??
The mempool normally has less than 25k unconfirmed transactions at the normal times.

Right now there's more than 166k unconfirmed transactions with a crazy rate of 14.35 transactions per second !!!!!1
It's usually doesn't even reach 8/s.

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

This takes us back exactly to when the conversations about applying segwit2. What did they do back then force it ? Scam and jam the bitcoin network so hard in order to show that it sucks right now and needs to be changed.

When they got what they want, they stopped their attacks. But now after the fork got cancelled, they're doing everything in their power to prove it one more time to the public.

This is totally clear. And don't come and tell me that there's no such thing as attacks or whatever. The fees have been so stable through the past months AND that is when the price was soaring so hard with a lot of people interested in bitcoins.

Don't tell me that somehow magically a few days after the fork is cancelled and the price went down, more transactions occur ? Doesn't make much sense.

4910d016caed9c447652e0a372f73b9a
cc262f2a957db1fe85544b33baf65523

You will get it, I once had a transaction pending for 20hrs with high fee

The blockchain.info is wrong. I monitor the mempool myself and the blockchain.info is in the parallel universe. Here is the correct today's evolution:

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#2d

During typical day, the steady state rate of transaction is equal to the total blocks mined, about 140-150 MB/day. Today, the mempool increased by 37 MB but only 61 MB of blocks have been mined. The sum is less than normal.


There is no increase in transactions. There might be some transactions that are waiting at sidelines. Probably most of the non-important (moving $20 dollars of bitcoins) stopped but the current clog is due to slowdown in mining, not the increase in transactions.   Last 12h was particularly slow, it's like having an effective 0.35 MB blocks. There has probably never been such a slowdown in mining during the history of Bitcoin (except maybe Satoshi times).

The distribution of transactions likely changed. With very high fees, wallet reorganizations and minor transactions are not issued. So the clog might be not easy to clear once the fees start to go down but it will bet better as soon as mining picks up.

Edit: corrected numbers

You may or you may have not noticed that the network is currently under a spam attack so it might take a couple hours for your transaction to receive it's first couple of confirmations. If it's a really urgent payment I would can van broadcast another transaction with an increased fee but only do this if you really really need to (otherwise it's just a waste of money). If not just wait it out, it will take longer than normal but that is due to this spam attack.

Well said

I send 0.02 BTC with low fees 5 days ago, and 0 confirmation it's to low  :-[

this provisory problem 4 or 5 hours for transaction

I am having the same problem. I don't understand why the fork didn't happen. Wouldn't that have fixed this problem?

I would like to make some transactions for real. How is this supposed to be the currency of the future?

Spam attacks are real

You can find some services where you can pay to have your transaction processed.

bitcoin core now delete transactions from mempool if they reach the 2 weeks old (by default). Let's wait if your transaction is confirmed or if it will be deleted

Now, bitcoin network have High Transaction volume, maybe spamming on blockchain network
You can check Unconfirmation Transaction here https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
At this moment , please not send bitcoin, you can use alternate currency for sent payment ( ex : eth or ltc )

Bitcoin must implemented 2MB block size, segwit is must  ;D

now my transfer completed in 2 minutes? with 10k low fee. its luck?

I waited about 1 day? This weekend made a big mess of things >:(

I had this problem recently. Please let me know when you find a solution or a cause.

For all hardwork the secret key to success is to be patient so just learn how to wait
Confirmations because there are also many transaction in world happening.

really so weird this delays. last day i sent 50$ with low fee 0,70 $.  10k sato.   transfer completed in 2 minutes??? this is just luck?

so unstable times.

Guys, regular services for crypto transactions are becoming obsolete. New services like Mywish are coming to replace them. It's based on smart contracts, that are safer, faster and more convenient.

That situation often happened to me and sometime it made my work became difficult. I do not know how to fix it or increase the quality of transaction. Like this guy i really welcome all advice from you guys !

Bitcoin transactions are becoming too slow for my liking

It's a normal things. Your transaction is still pending because there are transactions's fee that cost more than 12$ and the miners are processing it , they're not free at all to take a look at yours. That's why.

I believe it's the hashrate some of which got shifted to BCH mining and the other declined due to the fear of S2X that was (going) to happen yesterday which went dormant. There are users here on the forum whom you can ask to accelerate your transaction, one of my preferred people is bl4nkcode.
You may also try viabtc's transaction accelerator but chances are least to get your tx accelerated there.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2400745.0 - Tx Acceleration service by Thekool1s
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2256407.0 - By ConfirmTX (limited to 500 bytes size tx)

I'm sorry if this is a little off topic, but how do I know my transaction size?

When I look here: https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx it says that best transaction fee is 40 Satoshis/byte

How do I calculate the size of a transaction I want to create?

From day to day it becomes slower and slower, you should get used to it

that why bch come and rescue us
finally do not worry too much
it only make sense when you invest in gambling
you can lose your odds, ...

If you are concerned I would recommend speaking to people on this forum that can help accelerate your transaction, they will most likely do it for free for you. It will be down to the fee that has been taken for the transaction, nothing to worry about but someone may be able to accelerate it for you. But I can assure you that 4 hours is nothing to worry about.

things usually takes alot longer for bitcoin when there aren't many miners and depending on transaction fees.

last time it took 3 days and I was in panic but it eventually worked out.

In Crpto everyone expects things to happen yesterday.   

OMG My transaction is taking 4 hours.

Try sending Fiat from one account to a different account of a bank and see how long it takes.   ::)

1st World problems right here.   :D

4 hours is okay i once send a transaction and was stuck for 19 hours, just be patient it will go through.

Please post the real transaction ID to prove your claim. I believe most of those complaints from users on paying high fees and the extra long confirmation times are from the "Ver brigade".

Take a look at those users. They are all newbies, and possibly made to troll us.

It IS a real transaction ID ::)

https://blockchain.info/tx/4910d016caed9c447652e0a372f73b9acc262f2a957db1fe85544b33baf65523

You'll also notice that it paid a fee of:  Fee per byte 463.422 sat/B
and it took 1,135 minutes to get a confirmation: Included In Blocks 494114 ( 2017-11-12 23:04:46 + 1,135 minutes )

Nevermind the newbies... it's the Sr. Members, heroes and legendaries who don't seem to know some BTC basics and are likely "bought" accounts that bother me ::)

so upon that lots of stories.what really happen to the OP's problem?why not just answer the topic why need to have grandstanding were here to help not to be centered of attraction.lets just be direct to the thread thats what the OP's need a concrete answer for his concern

I think he/she already paid high transaction fee i.e 12$, may be it would be only due to congestion in network nothing else.

This one is now the best possible solution to accelerate the transactions, i have also seen some of the threads offering services like this.

Well 12$ is a quite huge fees quite astonished to see transaction with such a significant fee still unconfirmed. I think the block size problem is getting serious or may be miners are making such decisions voluntarily to increase fees.

But the point is did he really pay $72 in fees? I believe it was only $12 at most, but correct me if I am wrong.

The longer confirmation time might be caused by miners taking a longer time than average in finding blocks. That also happens from to time to time. Especially now that some miners point their hardware back and forth to Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin.

At least giving us your txid , maybe we will easily find out your problem on this transaction ?

Oh, the fee is so high. $12 out of $72 means more than 16% of fee. With the increase of bitcoin price and transaction volume, the bitcoin transaction fee and speed are hot topics of bitcoin scalability.

your block might have some issue
just wait and you will be confirmed
but send 72$ and pay 12$ fee that is unbelievable
Good luck

Massive transaction volume friend, bitcoin blockchain can handle 7 transactions per second.

high transaction volume that makes many queue, so if you want to be faster you need to increase your value of fee, if your fee higher i think your transaction is have a bigger priority in the queue, so you can get 1 confirmations with less time

It's worth checking how many transactions are waiting to be confinmed by the miners.
When there is too many the fees are higher and you have too wait foe longer times.
Weekends is better for transactions, I suggest you to check the blockchain website before sending bitcoins.

It could take up to a day. I have had some transactions take around 16 hours. I would not worry about it yet.

 :( :(

just wait. I send 0.02 btc and wait about 1day

I was able to send .1 BTC from Bittrex exchange to Cryptopia wallet within 2 hours.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/770d682a3c6226defe6588930fe0945a769ce8841bb0b3bef4ebb661b98ad7d1


This is what i have sent ...still not confirmation...may anyone help me?
THANKS

Unfortunately, the mempool is backed up right now by over 32000 transactions. You can go here to check where your transaction stands compared to other transactions. https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/770d682a3c6226defe6588930fe0945a769ce8841bb0b3bef4ebb661b98ad7d1 This may take a while....

The transaction was now confirmed as we speak and I will advise you to always check the mempool status while you bech wallet next time for the best transaction fee before making any transaction to avoid delay in a situation when you'll need the transaction urgently

There was a big rise in the price of bitcoin in the last 12 hours or so which ultimately results in users paying higher transaction fees. Your transaction wasn't prioritised by nodes simply because others paid higher fees.

Have a look at this site to get an estimate of what fees to use at a given time. You can even use less than what they recommend
https://coinb.in/#fees

This site will show you the current state of the mempool and its size.
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h