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I have a pending transaction that just goes in a loop from an exchange and it never completes, thus I never get my money for days now. Is there anyway I can speed up this ruddy transaction as I need my money.

I read this but I can't do it, it isn't very clear.

If ETHEREUM don't fix their blockchain or allow our funds to come to us, how on earth can I trust it again? I have my money sitting in pending for days.


https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherDelta/comments/72tctz/guide_how_to_cancel_a_pending_transaction/

If someone can give me a proper step by step guide I will try to attempt it.

I'm sure you can find more detailed guides somewhere else, but to explain it in simple terms: Just resend your transaction with a higher gas limit and gas price. The network will prioritize that new transaction and your funds will finally be sent to the address you desire.

I don't know what happening now. I have some transaction pending for 2 o 3 days until now and nothing. A friend of mine told me that some kind of new virtual cat that use the ETHERIUM blockchain is the problem.

Yes this is sad for all of the people having an important transaction right now that the kitties is clogging the network including me. Maybe we'll just wait a day or two and this will be resolved by the network hearing that the regular gas limit by now is 40,000. Vitalik buterin has something to say about this situation and its all about positive statements. He also replied several reasons why we should take the issue lightly. You can see for yourself if  you haven't seen in his twitter account. We will hope for the best.

Growing pains.

If everyone lost hope every time the early internet was extremely lagged or went down then we might not be talking to each other online in this way.

It does suck that your money is in limbo and hope you get it out soon but please be patient and hold on to hope.

Qiwoman.. now that is a name I haven't heard since the good of Poloniex trollbox days!  You make your riches yet?

I guess this is the result of too many users, and I tried to find other guide but I also end up on that link you have posted. Or you can try to find some youtube videos which I can't now because I don't have too much data for it. I'm sure youtube videos are more easily to understand, and is showed step by step. Maybe you can still try to wait more often, your funds will soon come to you.

Great point. I think that all blockchains that succeed will have to struggle like Bitcoin and Ethereum are struggling now in terms of transaction capacity. It shows that there is a huge demand for the network and that many people are trying to use it, and once the tx limit is increased, it's going to be insane in terms of adoption and price.

Watch this video maybe would help you :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym7hs9vFCK4

ETH is getting killed little by little. I have some ETH mining which were sent since 4 days, but they still didn't arrive at my address. If this continue, nobody is going to use ETH. And i suppose that some people tried to send their ETH to sell them on Exchanges as BTC is increasing fast and that they lost the opportunity to sell them before the current price. So people are losing money just because they can't send ETH. It is better to stay with BTC or other coins for the moment.

Guys are You kidding???
ETH is actually the largest network for major part of all these ICOs and it will have great future, when will upgrade with the Casper will be launched.
To tell the truth, novadays there is no the alternative smart contract network in the market so they will solve the problem soon!
By the way right now the ETH prise is going closely to the 500$ 

I think I have seen worse pending transaction than this, it can be a pain in the arse but situation like this is what bring people back to their drawing board to find lasting solution to problems, if not Ethereum but I'm sure we will soon find a project that we resolve this issue, just look at where we were before and where we are now

this also happened in our place when but in bitcoin. When it spiked to the price, the exchange site our country is using went to upgrade. Because upon the increase many users tried to cashout at the same time. A lot of transaction were lost and still pending until now. The transactions were invalid and it was hard to try and ask for another transaction, but at least the server is ok today. Same case with this, just try to wait for few more days. Because im sure eth blockchain is wider so its gonna take more time.

I sent my FIRST ETH transaction on Monday. I waited over 55 hours with no TXID showing up on etherscan.
I have learned a ton since then about how this works.

The low gassed transactions are being buried by the high gas. The miners do not get to the low gas as they usually do because there
has been such an increase in the number of transactions.

If you can, resend your ETH with higher gas as was already suggested. I could not do this as I sent from an exchange.
Fortunately Bitstamp also recognized the problem and resent all the earlier low gas transactions with higher gas. I was happy to see that when I checked my transaction it had completed after all those stressful hours.

Good luck, as long as you put your destination in correctly you will eventually see yours complete.

Waiting for 2 days it's not so good for ETH blockchain. I guess one of the reason could be those kitties spam and probably low gas. Sometimes my BTC tx gets confirmed in 2-3 days but it is because of low fees which is understandable.

A total of 20229 Pending txns found https://etherscan.io/txsPending , this is bad and everyone annoyed even frustrated. It's been several days this problem happened and to this day still happen, there is no solution given by developer. If this still continues to happen I am sure many users will be disappointed about this. Hopefully they work hard and immediately solve this problem.

Add more gas then everything work.

I use 61 gwei. 2-10 sec. I have made 20 trades on EtherDalta with no problems.

Problem is not solved yet...for now there is no other solution than increase gas for making the transactions. I hope too that developer can solve this problem!

Just a single stupid game make the whole network take a massive overload of transactions. It stupid for those raise cryptokities to think someone willing to buy those shit.

These day many people face the same problem. i think?

I've same issue I want quick money but I didn't get it because my transaction is pending until now, but I think you give up too soon.
yesterday I saw ethereum price around $420 and today the price going up around $485.

Well the situation is definitely very disappointing, I think there should be a mechanism to improve the transaction speed during network congestion’s, if eth aims to be the biggest and best block chain they should also provide hassle free service for the masses.

Probably because people can not deposit their ETHs on the exchanges, that's why it grows. I for some reason thought that the price should again roll back to $300 because of obvious problems in the network.

Well the exchange I hatched my eth out of said I cannot cancel the transaction myself as it is from their cold wallet. They will see they said if their devs can cancel all eth transactions, if they do that then I don't mind paying the higher transaction fee, but having like 2k USD stuck and not having access to it at present is very frustrating, just because miners are too greedy to process our pending transactions. I am so pissed off with both the miners and that shitty cryptokitty site which I hope gets dossed to oblivion for causing all this havoc on the rest of us, rant over and out.

It can be a huge problem if you didnt follow recent events and you dont set fee higher than 50 gwei since the transaction will get stuck for a really long time.

I do not know why it's rising but I'm very depressed because of this incident :'(

That is totally insane. Wasn't one reason they touted cryptos the easy of use? Safe, cheap and fast transactions?
If a mere cat game is able to disrupt the technology of a certain coin, people need to stay away from said coin.
I do not want to shill for Stellar Lumens, but when I read that the technology behind die Stellar is able to handle one billion transactions in real time and for almost free of charge (a fraction of a cent) I said to myself: This is the future. This is what customers are looking for.

you can fix that pending transaction by making another transactions and increasing the gas fee by 60 t0 100 gwei.
    if you want to just cancel your pending transactions just sent 0 eth with a gas price ranging from 60 to 100 gwei.

Is there any official statement from Ethereum team regarding this issue? I couldn't find anything official and this is not cool at all :(

It is faster to transfer money from a bank account to another bank... ETH is getting useless...

I know that their are other alternatives to solve the problem.  Slowing down of the system nowadays has affected transactions but this is natural since it is now year end and a time for folding transactions.

When this is over  I will be getting rid of all my ethereum again. This has truly showed me a big downside of ethereum.

This is just a temporary issue it will be resolved in some days because there are more number of ethereum transactions happening so there me not enough miners to confirm our transaction.But don't think it is the end of ethereum we knows the ethereum is good potential coin so the price of ethereum will bump in the coming years.
Next time try to send your transaction with higher gas limit so your transaction will not pending for some days.

Cats are now everywhere in ETH's blockchain, and neither the ERC20 TOKEN nor the ETH itself can transfer money. ETH Foundation should not think about how to solve the congestion problem after the next blockage it? I think this is very important.

I believe there is something else happening that we not told about. Since the rising of Bitcoin many things are nothing working perfectly well as before. There is massive pulling of wealth to Bitcoin. My opinion is that many people wants their wealth out of Ethereum thus causing heavy traffic and increase in transaction fees thereby slowing transactions.

there was not much hope for ethereum in long run anyways. the only thing good about this platform is the rising price of the token, nothing more. it was always obvious that the network congestion will bite everyone in the ass. sooner better than later.


not really, it is all about the new on chain game thingy called cryptokitties!

I think these are good times for miners.
We need moore!

Mining Ethereum is very energy consuming. After we saw growth in profitability cryptonight many miners switched to this algorithm. Perhaps this explains the fact that the network of Ethereum, there is great delay. I don't remember. But this does not mean that eth will die. A similar problem is now the bitcoin but are waiting for his further growth.

Protocol Improvements to Increase Gas Limit May Be Ready in Weeks Says Ethereum Developer

http://www.trustnodes.com/2017/12/05/protocol-improvements-increase-gas-limit-may-ready-weeks-says-ethereum-developer

Demand for ethereum transactions have been increasing for months, but it appears kitties are what done it, with the network now congested, around 20,000 transactions stuck and fees at 11 cent.

Vitalik Buterin, ethereum’s inventor, has previously stated that fees of 20 cent are too high, so it is probable any increase in fees would be temporary while developers implement low hanging fruits efficiency protocol improvements before the bigger upgrades of Casper and Sharding.

Today from the third try I made succesful transaction from my account to the exchange one and that cost me the gas price of 1$!
They shoul make this changes faster or many ICOs will start to find the new alternative platform.
Can predict the growth of popularity for the Waves platform!

This sentiment is one that in time will hurt ethereum and is currently holding it back, if the platform was stable in having quick and cheap transactions I am sure we would see the price at $1k or more in no time. Hopefully some of the solutions talked about can be successfully implemented and scalability can be forgotten for some years.

yes, now there are big problems with the load of the network, they say it because of the cryptokittens) In any case, the problem is trying to solve, I hope everything will turn out

Although the problems may eventually be solved, not losing people's trust is key. The incidents nowadays have caused a lot of people to lose faith in ETH, which is bad news for any currency, crypto or not. Even if they solve the issues, it may take a lot of time to build back trust, if they can do it at all.

Things will get back to normal in no time, we have to understand that demand for ethereum has been overwhelming of late and this should be expected for any service...and need to leave eth has some good projects on its platform.
They are good times indeed and the only way to avoid these delays in confirmations is to have more miners.

Every cryptocurrencies have the same congestion problem, when faced with a surge of transactions.
If you want your ETH to arrive timely in times like this, you simply have to pay above average gas price and set a higher gas limit.

I can predict the more projects like CryptoKitties will be launched soon!
This will be the new challenge for the Ethereum network and maybe to the many existing blockchains too!
I prefer not to use ETH network without a huge demand nowadays.

I think not only on Ethereum but also in Bitcoin. Both Bitcoin and Ethereum are facing massive transaction requests this past week and developers are on it to resolve this issues because as they are not supposed to be congested even when there's massive transactions in order to some business establishments to accept Bitcoin as their products and services payments.

The Best challenge that every cryptocurrency are facing this time is to  prove that their network is secure and fast otherwise they cannot attract investors and clients.
Bitcoin and Ethereum I believe are not the main cyrpto-currency that the world is going to use because the blockchain technology is not fast enough in order to process massive transactions one at a time.

indeed. i also have pending transaction from the yesterday.

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xb689945c9cdfc20381ede7ddd1c931eac79184d3afa2730d4051150fb1a8bea4


i am also losing the hope on the ethereum blockchain we need much faster and cheaper blockchain for the future if this blockchain can npot deal with even a single game them what will happen when there will be more than 10 games or more.. how we are suppose to do trade in such situation.

I have seeing more threads in these days as Ethereum started to give problems for users and they have said Ethereum transaction fee will be low, but now we are seeing the gas price to keep high.

i also know more people are increasing to use Ethereum, but the team should had taken care for everything. I will exchange my money with someone because no hopes on this or support.

At least you can display your transactions on etherscan. I took some tokens outside an exchange yesterday, but I received nothing, the tx is not on etherscan. The support doesn't answer. I don't know what to do. 24 hours passed.

Today I finally made the succesful transfer of my tokens with the GWEI 40 and GAS 200,000!
Some more days and I `ll start to hate this game! Can anybody ask the CryptoKitties Devs to make a delay on their game transactions for some 5-6 hours?)

Not to mention the insane increase in transaction fees:

https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/GXsEQSH.png

Not surprising thing at all which this thing goes the same on bitcoins situation on where if theres a congestion into the network fees do rise up as well which means it would really be a normal thing to happen on these kind of scenarios and situation of ETH is not an exception. Just been said above i do expect there would really be more project coming up like cryptokitties and would really fucked up this ETH network for sure.

even if the more projects like this will launch i don't this will be another project can hot like be this

people are already occurs at a loss and soon they will awakening and that will be end date of CryptoKitties

More miners will soon come. Good profit to earn. Then the fee will go down.

i suggest you should to be patiently like me, everybody had a same problem pending transaction in ethereum blockchain. try not to make a any ethereum transaction until everything goes back to normal...

also dont forget to say thank you to Cryptokitties too that makes us like this...  >:(
 

To transfer your tokens was successful, put the GAS to the maximum.
We will wait when all the kittens are sold, or stop reproduce.

That pending is a big problem to the community of Crypto Currency, it should be fixed early, but we can't do anything, we can only hope for it to be fixed and continue the business. The project CryptoKittiies has a big impact to the community, and giving such network problem to the ethereum network. hoping for the error to be fixed as soon as possible.

To fix the ethereum block is through the hardfork. as far as I see about the only possible thing about you can try to rebroadcast your transaction or replace it with the new transaction that already put the high fees rather than an old transaction. But it looks not possible through exchange site.

Those damn cats mate! We do need scalability though, ETH has let me down on that...for now

If you have knowledge about ethereum then you will know that nowadays the time of ethereum is start and people are started to take interest in ethereum and they are investing their money in ethereum and they are also starting to mine ethereum so how can you say that people are losing faith and trust from ethereum.

yeah, I'm also very sorry about it, the pending transaction can not even at all and the price of Ethereum destroyed I'm very disappointed with the current situation.

this becomes a serious problem, if the blockchain ethereum does not fix as soon as possible, I also feel the same, as well as those who transact through blockchain ethereum  :-[

It's all because of this cat games, they rush over the network.
Hope the Ethereum dev teams will find a solution for this overloaded network.

CryptoKitties are going to kill Ethereum. If the hype of that game will continue in a year then possibly we will see Bitcoincash second to bitcoin because Eth made people having so much frustrations on transacting on that network.

It would be more helpful if the people with transactions that are not being processed mentioned how much Gas was used. It will at least give the rest of us some idea what level of gas is needed to get transactions processed.

Most likely due to the cyptokitties games. I feel that it's good that Ethereum is going through this. Maybe this will help the chain overall so it's more stable. We will see with time, but don't lose hope, hang in there.

The traffic is getting worse as the users of the Ethereum network is getting larger in number. And most of all, the reason why the network has been lagging much in these past few days is the creation of Crypto Kitties which are also getting big in numbers. The breeders of Crypto Kitties are clogging the network. This is getting both funny and stupid. I actually don't understand why people are so hooked up to this new invention. 

You will eventually get the money refunded and it also wont cost any gas because the transaction did not go through.
I dont know how long this takes in general, I suppose its a certain number of blocks that must pass before an unconfirmed transactions gets returned, but it eventually will.

Dont worry, dont loose the trust. ETH network is great, there are scaling problems, but this will be fixed sooner or later - this just shows us that we are not yet ready for mainstream adoption and that there are things to work on!

This kitty shit is a stress test for the Ethereum network. We all tend to forget the blockchain technology is still very new, the developers need to face these event to improve the robustness of the network. We should be happy about it.

It is disappointing to use a touted world changing network said to soon rival Visa, and my withdrawal from an exchange has been stuck all day. Imagine if you made a purchase with your Visa card and it stalled all day with the excuse that too many gamers were trying to buy with their Visa cards. What a joke and a black eye to all the crypto technology.

How much gas did you use qiwoman2? Since I have also faced this problem, I will tell you what to do.

• First go to my https://www.myetherwallet.com/. Make sure you enter this site only, there are many scam sites aroud with very similar name.
• Then navigate to the "send offline" tab.
• Enter your ETH address.
• Click Generate information.
• Then enter to address, which could be either your own address or the address you were trying to send the funds to.
• In the value/amount to send, enter 0.
• Increase the gas price to higher than the original. Refer to https://ethgasstation.info/ for the current gwei prices. Adjust the GWEI slider on the top right section of myetherwallet.
• Now access your wallet using private key, seed phrase or json file. If you are using Metamask, then also use these 3 options. Connecting it directly won't help. And if it's your own account on exchange like Etherdelta, then enter it's private key. Don't know if other exchanges like Polo provide such keys or not.
• After that generate transaction and then send transaction.

Within some time (usually minutes), your transaction will either be processed or cancelled. But now at least you can start the new transaction. And always make sure to first check prices on ethhasstation, before sending any transaction.

Hope these steps help you. Might seem complex in starting, but you can do it buddy!

From what I've red from some posts in this forum. There is a game called cryptokitties and this is their site cryptokitties.co/ (http://cryptokitties.co/)

There are many users of this ethereum based platform, it uses metamask as the main wallet for ether and the transactions. The game is about breeding and selling cats for a defined price. And because of the large volume of transaction in the network, the result is an increased number of unconfirmed transactions which is getting worse day by day as the number of users of cryptokitties increase.

Just use this site : https://ethgasstation.info/

The issue about ETH this last few days has been something that is discouraging and it seems there is no way to turn to in this issue of forever confirmation time because the next best alternative to bitcoin from my point is ETH and if ETH is exhibiting the same issue of bitcoin, then it means they are same thing and one is not trying to correct the error of another and every other forked coin out there. I just hope this can be sorted out soon.

Ethereum will need reconsideration! If one dapp can kill the whole system, then finding the way for much bigger scalability and probably dividing channel as Vitalik introduced Sharding, would be necessary asap.  Now only one opportunistic application can kill the whole blockchain and stop all other applications.
Also reconsider the price of the transaction, which raised wit scalability problem, would have to be solved. Otherwise, all that could be only a nice try...  without real-life scalability and wide usage.
But I believe, Vitalik is doing the right thing and I hope that team will finish the transition to 2.0 soon.

Pending or failure of transaction is now a common issue on ETHEREUM platform because Ethereum network is clogged with cryptokitties for last few days. As a result, currently it is very difficult to make a successful transaction in Ether-platform through ETH Wallet, you should have to keep patience for a few more days when all these problems should be solved as soon as possible by Dev team.

Prepare for more copies of Cryptokittens... They are going to kill ETH. Just one Cryptokittens already kill it. ETH should be named ETHKittens... People should leave ETH to kitten so it would be worth 0 satochis.

Hello.Now i'm facing same situation.My 3 transactions are  pending in near to 3 days.I want to cansel that transactions.I have searched more details about it.But i haven't find good procedure.most of all people said cant stop transaction and wait to transaction successful :-\

I feel you. I think you are not alone with this massive problem ethereum is having right now. If this goes on eth will lose a lot of followers and maybe find another alt to trade.

It wasn't a direct Ethereum fault for all those pending transactions. It was kitties madness that overflowed the Ethereum network with transactions. There is an upgrade planned for Ethereum, so after it is completed no stupid kitties will be able to ruin others people experience with Ethereum. Just send new transaction with higher GWEI (check which GWEI to set here https://ethgasstation.info/)

Agreed. This is very sad. Up till now I was very big fan of Ethereum but after today I'm losing my love towards it. I hope it won't be like today again.

Ethereum congestetion seems to be resolved now. The network works in normal mode again and safelow of transactions is 11 gwei at the time of this writing. Sure its not as low as it was, but at least its not 50+ gwei. Hopefully we will be back at even lower fees soon. Im just happy that Ethereum network has overcome its struggles. Guys dont loose faith in Ethereum, its still in its infancy, we will see more great things from ethereum!

At least it's some improvement.

the fact that ethereum can do 15 transactions/second... that's the problem to begin with. It has to be delt with first, before anything else.