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There has been s much strain on the ethereum network causing an increase in transaction fees and delays in transactions.Why so much delays,my transaction has been stuck for over 6 hours now.

If you have noticed then you will see the prices of Gwei has been risen a lot since week now. This is all because of the network congestion. Now at the time of your transaction the Gwei might have been set to default price of 41 Gwei but the actual required or safe Gwei might have been more than that. It means you paid less fees and thus your block will confirmed after very long period of time.

You can check the Gwei current prices, safe Gwei limit to set at the time of your transaction here : https://ethgasstation.info

It has been caused by a spike in tranfers of Tokens that are trying to get listed on FCoin. To get listed on FCoin you need users to vote for you by transferring a single Token to FCoin. You may have also noticed a whole bunch of Tokens have arrived in your account recently that you never asked for. This Token Spam is caused by companies trying to get more people to vote for them. I have been reporting the Tokens that are Token Spamming to etherscan so that they will be marked as spam to try and discourage this behaviour. Etherscan told me if they get multiple complaints they will take action.

Today I also sent a token to my friend but the price of gas was too high.

This will always fluctuate.

Remeber the cryto kittens!!!

This is just part and parcel of being in Crypto.

The delay is big because you set a small value for GAS or GWEI. Do not be greedy and do not change the recommended values.

This is because so many project use their network to write smart contract and run ICO, currently Ethereum only possible to process about 20 transaction persecond, but the team founder Vitalik Buterin already has plan to increase scalability of Ethereum by plasma and sharding which will possible to proccess amillion transaction persecond. And we should be wait and give support for this continue development of ETH to be much better.

I don't worry about delays because they are not significant for me. The more important role for me plays security and reliability so time is not the key-aspect.

There was a similar delay in the transactions in the December of Last Year due to cryptokitties. As other members have pointed out, it's most probably due to the Fcoin exchange and it's airdrop issues. Due to the high amount of spamming with airdrop coins this clogging of the network took place which further increased the transaction fees very high. The transaction fees rose from 0.01$ up-to 1$ per eth transactions. There was a problem with the miners due to the high amount of transactions which were to be processed but less block limit.

This clogging up or the increase in the number of transactions made the miners to accept only transactions which has higher fees. Due to this incident, the transactions which had lesser value were stored in the mempool and processed later.

I’m not sure why a lot of people complain about this
When your transaction does not go through
All you have to do is simply increase your gas and gwei and have a faster experience with Etherum

It’s the best platform with a cheap sending fee

You have to make sure that you have checked in gasstation first before committing to a gas price. You don´t give much information about the params of your Tx so we can´t really say anything useful.

This problem is very actual for me and I am disappointed with these cases. I see delays not so often but there always are not in the suitable time for me.

Delays in Ethereum transactions are associated with increased overload in the system, you can cope with such a load with the help of miners.

Ethereum currently only allows to process about 20 transactions, which can be sure you better increase gas and gwei You could be years ahead will be stable again and can be lucky for you
Good luck

Delays are normal events, I am the supporter of idea that time doesn't metter here despite security and being calm of your moves with money at all.

I also noticed same delay and loss of ether as transaction fee for a little token which never reached it destination. I think there is a fork going on at Ethererum platform  because the scalability is now very low and sometimes not even working. I hope the developers are watching  on the market to know what next to do.

Delay is a normal thing. I think the problem of delay has been solved. ;D
At present, ETH's block network is not congested, so 3GWEI can be set up to turn out normally.

I think this is due to the large number of transactions there is a possibility of failure but very small

It was really backed up last night and this morning.  Standard gas fee was 61 Gewi.  I accidentally sent a transaction with 5.  I waited about 24hrs for that to go through but no dice. 

It is almost a normal trend especially when the network is clogged with too many transactions all trying to happen at the same time. And at such there is bound to be delays in the confirmation of transaction time.

What gas did you set? Sometimes eth blockchain is congested and in these times you have to set a higher gas price )’ ( and pay more fees) to make transaction easy success

It seems that Ethereum blockchain is being flooded with transactions. The smart contract is the finest advantage but it consumes resources for its processing, that's why such floods often gain the goal. Sharding feature would help a lot to withstand excessive load but, perhaps, it would remain unavailable until migration to PoS consensus completes.

Today, the price of gas has risen again, so be careful if you need to send ETH or tokens quickly, then check the price of gas before sending.

I haven't experienced any delay recently. But if you want to send fast, you have to increase your transaction fee. But if you can wait for a bit longer, you may decrease the transaction fee. I usually use three gwei only. It may take time to send but it will surely be addressed, and it is cheap.

Such problem is not so significant if your volumes are so high and I think you should be more patient because of making losses much lower that they could be.

Cryptocurrency is very popular and because of the large number of transactions software is hard to cope with such a load.

The network is congested. There are a lot of garbage transactions, periodically there are spam attacks on the Ethereum network. All this leads to delays in confirming transactions.

High cost Transaction fee does come whenever we have clog transaction and this is not the first time this will be happening and won't be the last.  Just that it will definitely affect so many people at the wrong time but i don't see anything we can do about it untill it stables back

They had serious spam attacks in early summer. But it was all temporary and now the number of transactions returned to the previous level (about 85 000 per second)

ETH will continue to have bottlenecks in the future except an update is made to improve the scalability. The transaction fees are almost 2x the value it was a year ago. I think with more dapps and platforms launching on Ethereum's blockchain, amd all of them taking some share of the resources , I think It would only get worse with time.

As already suggested in replys above, before initiating your transaction you should check the appropriate GWEI prices from ethgasstation it gives you an approximate timeline under which your transaction will complete. I usually dont go for high/fast GWEI and the medium works well for me. However, when the network is super congested like we saw during cryptokitties days or during ICO of Bancor or status, those are the times I try not to make any transactions as the time it takes even goes for hours and sometimes goes dead and you have to re-initiate your transaction

The main reason behind the higher transaction fee by the ethereum network is probably by the network congestion of ethereum. When many users make transaction in ethereum at the same time. The network fee will gradually increase because it is subjected to be a gas war. If you are in to this, better just wait until the network calms again.

Dear all,
I also meet the same status. I think that the crypto world need to find out the more high technology to improve the speed of transactions. At that time, everyone will beleive it so much. We hope that and good luck to the crypto world.

Transmission is a lot of delay right now when you use gas in your Myetherwallet for a little bit more because your gas will cost you more to make a transaction faster.

I've tried to make a transaction wit really low GWEI number, but i think it doesn't take to long until the transaction i've made done.
Perhaps there is some matter that makes the transaction delayed for that long.

ETH is outdated networks, and more transactions. ETH need upgrading to meet new requirements. Such a situation, it is difficult

You're commenting the thread/topic right now it's already outdated by the fee standart, back then in july the network is so crowded the gas required for transfer is peaking but now the fee is really low
that means the network is at normal condition so your transaction is not going to be delayed that long.

Because ETH is a popular cryptocurrency, many investors invest in this cryptocurrency. And I also want to do the same as these many.

They have found their own ways to fix that problem. So many major altcoins have prepared the scalability proposal to be implemented. It's just the matter of time until all of them will have their own solution to fix their scalability problem and i suggest you to be patience for that but this time ethereum network looks normal

This is a problem of system overload ETH network, more and more the ICO was created on the foundation of the ETH. The increased number of users is growing, while the number of transactions on the network do not increase. That, as the system is slow and continuous increase fees GAS. ETH user will lose because of this, if this situation continues

Perhaps the creators have organized a not yet very powerful platform for this, or expectations on demand were much less.

There have been several cases of a very heavy load on the Ethereum network, for example, crypto-seals or the launch of the Tezos ICO, from this we can conclude that the main delays occur during mass transfers and often during popular and large ICO's.

In my opinion, there were some problems, but they were eliminated and next year promised to increase the speed of transactions.

Well, it's hard to say what's going on there. Maybe because of the constant exchange rate drainage coefficient adjustment occurs and it affects the progress of the transaction.