Bitcoin Forum

To be honest, i have never seen the network being so lazy when it comes on transactions. This is the first time for me to wait this much for a transaction to be confirmed after paying the recommended fees for it. There are more than 220k unconfirmed transactions in the network right now and increasing every second. Why are the transactions not getting confirmed? What is the reason for the network to get stuck this much?

it is a pretty common thing that whenever bitcoin price is moving like this, people make more transactions, it doesn't matter up or down as long as it is a big movement. some will be selling their coins and some are buying and moving it out of exchanges.
and now that the adoption has grown too big, obviously there are a lot more people who are making a lot more transactions but the block space is still the same as before so the number of unconfirmed transactions grows this big.

People wants to make exit by selling their bitcoin at current high price and there are also many who want to take their bitcoin out from exchange platforms because during pumps like this exchanges can get hacked (like bitfinex before) and some might get down due to DDOS attack (coinbase yesterday).

People are willing to pay very high fee to get faster confirmation so the one with lower fees (which used to be enough before) are congesting blokchain. Only 1 MB of transactions can be included in 1 block every 10 minutes but total transaction is way higher than that 1 mb in 10 minutes.

Mine is in there for 15 days. Why aren't zero fee transactions deducted from the total backlog? They literally cost nothing to produce.

Yes this is the main reason and  I do agree with you. People are in a hurry to sell their BTC because of th recent ATH of bitcoin price. I too did sell a portion of my bitcoin which I save but still I am very positive that it will go higher in the future. As of now, seems it is consolidating and will find another momentum in the coming days.

Its similar to the situation where the bitcointalk.org crashes sometimes and you are not able to log in log out or to even do anything, well since the whales are investing and People are buying and selling at a much faster rate because of the high price thats dominating the crypto world the crowd that its handling is suddenly increased, and as we all know how there is this 1 Mb limit on the block size so its a little harsh for this small block size to really implement that much transactions at such a fast rate.
Increasing the block size would only increase the burden on the security aspects thus there is nothing that we could do about it, you should try a transaction accelerator thats obviously well known and renown.

Simple, when there are 51% of your transaction confirmation. Your transaction is successful. However. With bitcoin technology is quite backward. Their processing speed is slow. It may take a few days for the transaction to take place

Due to slow bitcoin processing speed. And when there are too many transactions, just like getting stuck. Your confirmation must wait. It may take a few days. but it will certainly succeed

On my opinion regarding that situation, the system is getting slow, due to the value of bitcoin getting high and there are massive transactions that can't carried on the system. It should takes time to transact, having millions of transaction all over  the world. Hopefully, that someday the possible situation will not be happened in order to have fast and easy transaction and no one will waiting too long like there shares and payments of bitcoin.

Are you refering to the Bitcoin network or are you getting this mixed up with the Ether network? I have had no problems with Bitcoin.

When blocks are full, what naturally forms is a fee market which displays the supply and demand for space in the blockchain.

Because the trading volume has increased massively over the last few days, there are a lot of people trying to send to exchanges and back, but since the supply of space on the blockchain is still the same, that means that the fees rise until the correct number of transactions are being sent again.

When there's a sudden rise it results in a large number of unconfirmed transactions, but this is usually temporary until the fee market adjusts.

The more transaction it means more competition especially for miner to select the highest priority.
If you see bitcoin value , it's reasonable to happen because every people are actively trade bitcoin because of this uptrend !

the definition of having a problem with bitcoin is different among people these days!

of course we never have any issues with bitcoin if we pay a higher fee. it will still be confirmed within 10 minutes on average meaning next block that is found.
but people usually pay less fees by mistake or because they are not willing to pay high fees and get stuck and call that "problem".

compared to ethereum it is not the same. you both have to pay higher amount of money and get stuck. and also people are having issues with propagating their transactions which are disappearing! not to mention all the problems with syncing with the network.

Each block can only handle so many transactions, SegWit was introduced to alleviate these problems but it's obviously not enough, bigger blocks or offchain solutions are required or this is going to continue indefinitely.

The situation is getting worse as i see. As stated by a lot of people, the transactions are increasing because every bitcoin holder is trying to sell a portion of their bitcoins seeing the big price, and because of that, the network is getting even more overloaded with unconfirmed transactions.
In my case, i have tried accelerators as well from this forum or outside, nothing worked so far. I'm not actually desperate for getting profits or selling because of the high price, but i need the money urgently. I was also thinking of making another transaction leaving the current transaction in the network and let it get confirmed later on, but the fees are bothering me again. I'm having to pay around $50 for the transaction which a lot for me.

I guess we can't always have it both ways yesterday I made a transaction too, paid the required fee and till this moment, its still very much unconfirmed. I tried using viabtc accelerator, its always full even when I tried at the exact hour. I thought it had something to do with the fee but no, its just the network we have to live with it. Hopefully when the whole of this spiral increase in bitcoin settles, we get to have more shorter time of confirmation that what we are witnessing now.

Unfortunately block size in combination with high fees again causing big problems,only thing we can do now is wait like many time before.It is strange that we have SegWit but exchanges/wallets providers in generally still do not use it.Allegedly Lightning Network is in the final stage of testing and this in combination with SegWit would mean that such things not happen anymore.

To some such kind a development is not good,and of course they are miners which in the current situation generate extra profits while users competing who will pay a higher fee and get transaction confirmed.One thing is for sure,something has to change in order to fix scalability of blockchain.

Op what you're referring to is called congestion and it's happening for quiet a while now, this is nothing new and most of us here know it. Well it's always is due to the amount of fees, even if it's due fees as per transaction
I remember in last few days I made 1k transactions twice, once I paid 12$.and it went in a zifffy, second time due fees was 1.45$ and it took a longer time. In the end its down to miners who earn the fees, and try and do transactions during the night it confirms faster.

Clearly, the blockchain is congested as people went frenzy since the value of btc have tremendously leapt to greater heights. Lots of new investors who want in on the train hoping for a good profit. And with that, transactions piled up while miners prioritize those who pay higher fees. It doesn't really matter if you paid the recommended fees if there are others out there who paid triple of what you paid for. And surely, a huge percentage of those unconfirmed transactions are small ones who paid lower fees.

bitcoin is getting bullish, even government and almost all of media expose about bitcoin, then it's volatile in short.
that's what makes the network traffic been high. some of people sending and keep sending to make profit when they see bitcoin is so high or hit new ATH. Tons of unconfirmed transactions per second.
So, if you want to be the priority one, you need to send your bitcoin with higher fee.
Probably it's really high for fee, but it worth as much as if you're urgent.

Bitcoin is very popular now soo we will expect this happenings like unconfirmed transactions due to volume of send and recieve the blockchain  has problem for processing each transaction  but am sure it will be fine soon and im 100% sure for that esp when the time btc will be recognized to wholeworld.

That is because of the price points were too high and many people want to buy BTC and Cash out. Even Ethereum nowaday has serious problem with transaction confirmation due to Kryptokitties.

the number of stacked shipping requests that cause the system to run slowly, usually any increase in Well Unconfirmed transactions will take too long, or the fee is too small, try on the rise

Maybe scalability problem, maybe on purpose bitcoin casher attacks, maybe micro transaction attacks. We don't know. Hopefully, the miners stay high against this. The current fee is very high honestly.

Circumstances occur that we make transactions far more than what we can and that also happens in Bitcoin. That is not something a hacker would do but might be due to your carelessness.

Since Bitcoin prices and value is always moving, it can be typical to see other investors and traders who hold on to their btc, finding ways to secure them.

probably because of the increase of bitcoin users, resulting in a disturbing transaction that is usually quick response so takes time
and this problem should not be considered trivial as there is a solution

Unconfirmed transaction is mostly cause by a network congestion due to any peblem, recently crypro kitties make this problems posible. There is a solution in this kind of problems. Sometimes increasing gas is the only way to transact faster in any trade sites.

You might have confused the movement of the prices in the market to unconfirmed transactions. Make sure you check them properly because I don't think Bitcoin allows them to be unconfirmed.

When it comes time for unverified transactions to be done all must be verified good days wish.

Honestly , I think that the high value of unconfirmed transaction is the biggest problem in Blockchain , as well, It is one of the reasons for the decreased price in this period.
On the other hand, I guess that the main cause of this problem is the overcoming of transaction in a small time, and that lead to rise in value of unconfirmed transaction. and hopefully that this problem will be solved soon.

It seems like transactions are now sent much faster and fees have lowered. Although the Lightning Network is still in test phase on the test net, people are already using it, which devs are not so happy with. Because there still some work to do. Hopefully LN will be live soon and transactions will sent properly.

The transaction times are slower for smaller amounts and if you don't pay the miners higher fees. The higher the fee you pay, the sooner your transaction should confirm. It seems Bitcoin works better for the larger amounts that are transferred. Litecoin seems to be a better choice for lower fees and is much faster when doing smaller transactions.

This thread was opened at the height of bitcoin price surge, that's why the confirmation is very slow and the cost of transaction is very high. But if you are going to check it today, its down to around 50K unconfirmed tx.

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions


I assumed that more and more bitcoin users are moving to Segwit wallet. Its much cheaper and tx are very quick. Although with the legacy address, its still cheap but not cheaper as Segwit address. And when LN is implemented this whole scalability problem will be resolved.


https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

If you did have give enough fees then it will not get confirmed.