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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Technical Support => Topic started by: CluelessDude on October 24, 2018, 03:38:17 AM



Title: Please Help!
Post by: CluelessDude on October 24, 2018, 03:38:17 AM
I need 6 confirmations of this transaction, and i have 5, Can someone please help me get one more confirmation? I really need this to go through, thanks!

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Title: Re: Please Help!
Post by: achow101 on October 24, 2018, 04:10:31 AM
Be patient, there isn't anyone here can do about that. Transactions get an additional confirmation for every new block that is found that has the block containing your transaction in its history. As more blocks are found, the number of confirmations for your transaction will increase. There isn't anything that anybody about that, that's up to the miners to continue to produce blocks. There isn't anything special that needs to be done to get more confirmations. The confirmations will come, just be patient for more blocks to be mined.


Title: Re: Please Help!
Post by: bob123 on October 24, 2018, 06:19:33 AM
A transaction can be considered to be 'gone trough' after 1 confirmation (gone trough, but not 100% irreversible).
Your TX gets the first confirmation when a miner builds a block with your transaction included.

Each further block mined upon this chain will add 1 more confirmation.

So in total you need your transaction to be confirmed plus 5 additional blocks being mined. This generally takes about 60 minutes (if your TX gets included in the next block mined).
After it got the first confirmation, you can only wait for the miner to create new blocks.