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After 3 long days my btc finally showed up in my wallet hope everyone else has better news as well.

mine too but i had to accelerate them

next time before making tx, check the https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

if Unconfirmed Transactions count is greater than 30k, then you should increase the fees, if you want your tx to confirm faster.

I accelerated mine as well and it's still took another day after I did it I did notice now it's at 130k transactions while the past two days it was close to 200,000 not sure if that help but I'm definitely changing my wallet and not using blockchain anymore I will tell you that much!

or even better,check this site: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
the number of uncomfirmed transactions is closely connected to the median satoshi/bytes fee,but it is not the only criterium
by which you should decide what fee you are going to use,the site I linked gives you a very good idea
about what kind of fee you should use if you want your tx to get confirmed in a reasonable amount of time

I always do the following before sending any BTC:

• Check for the number of unconfirmed transactions: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions (https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions)
• Check for the https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/#delay (https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/#delay)

If I want the transaction to occur fast (because I want to turn BTC into cash) I use a very high fee when the number of unconfirmed transactions is huge.
If I don't really care about the speed of the transaction I'm using an average fee, but large enough so it won't take 24 hours to confirm.

After sending/receiving BTC I always use:
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/ (https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/)

This website shows a confidence factor and miners preference for unconfirmed transactions:
https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/bitcoin/#confidence-factor (https://www.blockcypher.com/dev/bitcoin/#confidence-factor)

This technique works fine for me.

thanks, this is great.,

they even have API.

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/api/v1/fees/recommended

gives


i guess, its sat/Byte

The mine pool is so conjugated from few days . My transaction took more than 3 days to get confirmed and that too by accelerating it . This is becoming a big problem for users . With an increase in the users there is also need to increase the number of mining pools . I hope they are thinking for some solutions for the users to make this process less hectic and easy . I was literally stressing out due to the unconfirmed status since 3 days .
I heard that was happening because apparently some forks are on the way .       

I think many users experienced that issue mate including me, i transfer my bitcoin to my other wallet and it will confirm more than 2 days, i think because of the fast fluctuation of value the blockchain has been congested, even trading bitcoin to fiat its hard to confirm the transaction.
I think now all back to normal, we can transact with smaller fee but the duration is no like in the past few days.

Network is very congested in the last couple of days, because of the recent price surge. This is always the case when bitcoin reaches all-time-high. Many people keeps cashing it out, I think it peak at more than 217K unconfirmed transactions then slowly going down to 170K. And now its down do 104K, more than cut in half that's why our transactions are coming in. Hell, even I got a struck transaction for 3 days as well. Unfortunately, I can't cash it out because I have lost a significant returns. Will wait they the price gets to at least 18K once again. ;D

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Even some campaign payments also have some issues resulting to a lot of participants complaining. But we can't do anything about it for now, not at least if Lighting Network is not yet activated, It's been test I believed, and at least this sidechains will make a significant improvement on the slow tx confirmation. Let's see if they can implement it this year or early 2018 to try to alleviate this network congestion.