At current Bitcoin fees, you simply can't use Bitcoin for small sales or purchases anymore.
If you would use your own wallet (such as Electrum) instead of Bitpay, and someone pays you 0.001BTC, you'll just see 0.001BTC appear in your wallet. But if you want to use that 0.001BTC by yourself, you'll need to pay a fee again. Bitpay instantly takes the difference, but in the end you'd have to pay it one way or another.
At the way fees are going, you're lucky if you still get $6 out of $13, if fees get higher again (like they were last week), your $13 disappears completely.

As a merchant, you have a few options:
-Pay the fees by yourself (which is what you're currently doing)
-Charge the customer extra when he pays with Bitcoin (which means the customer pays $13 to you, $7 for his own fee, and $7 for Bitpay's fee. This is what my food website did, so I had to stop using Bitcoin)
-Stop accepting Bitcoin (while many people speculate Amazon and McDonald's are going to accept Bitcoin, Steam stopped accepting it).

As much as I hate saying it: Bitcoin is useless for small payments now.

Bitcoin addresses can only be tracked through other addresses. https://www.walletexplorer.com/ is your best shot to start searching.

You could make a post in Scam Accusations with more details about the exchanger.

I'm pretty sure there is no hard upper limit. In other words: it's possible, especially in a hype.
I do worry about sustaining it though! Currently, Bitcoin has only 12 million addresses holding more than 0.001BTC. Anything less isn't worth the fee to spend it. Most people use at least a few addresses, so that leaves at most a few million Bitcoin holders/users.
Miners take about $30-40 million per day in block reward and fees. That's money leaving the Bitcoin ecosystem. The trade volume is about $10 billion per day. Even at 0.25% fee on exchanges, the exchanges take $25 million per day.
Miners and exchanges together take about $60 million per day out of Bitcoin! Divide that by a few million users, and it's (give or take) $10 per person per day. That's $300 per month, and that money has to come from somewhere.
This $300 per user is a substantial drain of funds that enter Bitcoin and are taken out again, and it has to be a continuous supply just to sustain the current price and trade volume.
A price increase needs an even bigger inflow of money. To sustain this, Bitcoin needs more users, but blocks are too full already.
If Bitcoin were to double (or more), miners and exchanges take a larger share too, so even more money is needed to sustain that price level.

Note that this $300 per month is an estimate, it doesn't really matter if it's $100 or $1000, my point is still the same: a continuous inflow of dollars is needed to sustain Bitcoin.
The total for all cryptocurrencies is even bigger: miners and exchanges take their share there too.

As far as I know, that's a fake SegWit2x fork, aka a scam.

It's $0.06 per wallet at current price. I don't know how Tony plans to do this, but I expect many people to start farming many wallets if there's no restriction. I alone already have at least 7 different wallets (most used for testing), and this was without trying to farm 100 kbyte.

Text coins make it possible to send coins by email/Whatsapp/anything. If they're posted in public, it's first come first serve. So someone else used them. I'll PM you some.

It checks some older blocks, without knowing all technical details I can tell it's to ensure it's on the right chain.

Is your computer very limited on RAM? It used to take about 1 minute with chainstate on my hdd, and it's reduced to just seconds with chainstate on my SSD.

Your nickname looks familiar, haven't we discussed Bitcoin Core's performance before?
Edit: we did. I still think your performance problems must be related to your computer (hardware or operating system).

ViaBTC still works, but fills up in a few seconds every hour.

If you can manually go through your inputs, you can select which ones are worth using at current fees, but I don't think Electrum allows this. If you want to go full Bitcoin Core, you can import your private keys, download the full blockchain, enable coin control features, and go from there.
I would just wait it out until fees are much lower again. Fees already dropped 85% from the peak last week, if it's low enough you can consolidate your small inputs without paying $400 on fees.

I can't emphasize enough how important it is to consolidate small inputs when you can, instead of keeping them pile up until they're worthless due to high fees.

There's this guide, but it seems to only let you export encrypted private keys, and doesn't show how to actually read them.
Don't you just have the 12 word seed, which you can use (offline!) in https://iancoleman.io/bip39/ to get your private keys?

U = Unconfirmed (input).
Spent = Used already in a new transaction.

A chain of unconfirmed transactions means it takes longer for the last one to confirm. If they're all your own transactions you can safe on fees if you send one transaction to multiple addresses.

Try to broadcast the transaction again, it depends on your wallet how to do this.
Or copy the raw transaction and broadcast it from https://coinb.in/#broadcast . After this, see if ViaBTC knows it exists now.

Here is your link to receive 0.0005 GB: https://byteball.org/openapp.html#textcoin?nerve-valley-stable-symptom-same-region-pioneer-student-course-will-snack-reflect

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Thanks

Actually, what I meant is other normal posts with normal content, like this one for example. Adding a link to Byteball there would be offtopic for sure, but it's much better promotion than inside this thread.
I just claimed your 1MBYTE (I can't resist it!), but this doesn't help promoting Byteball at all, because everybody in this thread uses it already. Or maybe it does help promote Byteball, as you have to open your wallet to receive it. Either way, giving it back with this post

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Here is your link to receive 0.0005 GB: https://byteball.org/openapp.html#textcoin?flower-owner-payment-shoot-offer-fluid-often-valid-energy-ethics-inspire-fruit

I'm not sure how to stop that, but I doubt it's worse than paying $30 for a small transaction.

A blocksize increase gives breathing space, until a more permanent solution is in place. 1 MB blocks were sufficient for the first 6 years of Bitcoin, 8 MB blocks would give 8 times more space to grow.
I agree Bitcoin needs exponential scaling, but until that is available, larger blocks would at least make it possible to make transactions again.
Bitcoin.org still says "low processing fees". It's simply not true anymore.

I wish I had all the answers It just hurts to see the Bitcoin I like being turned into something that I can barely use. I can no longer use it to order food, unless I pay 3 times more due to fees.
Something has to be done, but that "something" takes much too long.

I do realize the difficulty is needed to prevent attacks, but wouldn't Bitcoin be almost as secure with just 10% of the current hash rate?
Note that I don't mean turning off 90% of current hashing power and waiting for them to do a 90% attack, I mean the hypothetical situation in which 90% of current hashing power was never installed.

I was speaking from an environmental point of view. The amount of power consumed is immense! If possible, try to get a tour in a power plant that produces "just" 1 GW, it's much more impressive than I can describe. You can actually feel the power.
If you're speaking from a network security point of view, I guess there is no upper limit of how much power you'd want to consume to secure the network.

Thanks to the Bitcoin forks, there are now actually some parties which control enough hash power to disrupt Bitcoin when they switch to Bitcoin Cash. The Cash fork wouldn't have happened if Bitcoin would have had bigger blocks.

You mean the one with the remote shutdown backdoor?

Isn't that what Bitcoin Gold is trying to do (in it's own way)? I'm no expert on algorithms, but as far as I understand they switched to something that's more suited to mine on GPU again.
I'd love to see your idea implemented, and it's much closer to what Satoshi originally envisioned. If Bitcoin entirely relies on 10 million people each mining with a small device, each will mine 0.066BTC per year. In my country that's enough for approximately 350W of electricity (excluding the cost of the device itself).
But even if ASICS could be small and cheap for consumers, that also means they're cheap for large miners, who can then centralize them again.

Now I'm confused: if you restored a very old backup, the change from your recent transaction may not show up in that one (old wallets are non-HD). If the change doesn't show up, you'll find it back in the backup you made before rescanning your wallet.

You're still here, aren't you?

Take a break, come back tomorrow after Christmas. Your wallet won't change on it's own.

I can't tell what's going on in your wallet, but by now I'd say export your private keys and import them into Electrum. After your break that is, you'll need to be able to think straight when you're handling private keys.

Cool I'll pick $199 + $2 fee if that is at all possible, just to make sure it confirms eventually.

Update: tip received Thanks!

Earlier you said: "One transaction (to coinbase) actually did go through". What happened to this transaction after -zapwallettxes?

It's hard to say... Can you check which addresses hold funds according to your Bitcoin Core, and see if they actually have funds on blockchain.info's block explorer?

The old wallet unencrypted would still hold all old used private keys, but any new transaction to a new address would no longer be available in the old backup.

Considering the number of people with similar problems with old wallets, I'm very curious what could have caused this.

You took a loan to gamble, and lost!

This will depend on their terms. I don't use Bitfinex (or margin trading in general), so I never read them. But it's quite easy to find:

I assume they made you agree to the policies when you opened your account. You should never agree to anything you don't fully understand.

This is where KYC comes in handy: they know who you are, and can come after you to get their money. Many people join crypto for quick profits only, but large profits come with large risks. Crypto markets are heavily manipulated by whales, with only one reason: to get your money.

I don't think this is the right board, you can move it to Trading Discussion.

In this case a rescan can help.

When all else fails you can always export all private keys and import them somewhere else, but Bitcoin Core should be able to do this on it's own.

I'm pretty sure your wallet is messed up.

Close Bitcoin Core, start it from a console with flag -rescan. Or to be sure, you could use -zapwallettxes to also get rid of any unconfirmed transactions you may have.

I higly doubt it. Click Help > check Current number of blocks. Mine is at 500835 now.

I've never had such an old wallet by myself, but I often read people have problems when they use an old wallet on a new client. I hope you have original ("untouched") backups, in case you need them.

Although blockchain.info has it's problems, I trust the confirmed transactions they show are correct.
A full rescan from my hdd takes a couple of hours.

If you spent them in 2013, they're gone now.

Nice airdrop, unfortunately I still can't register some of my (uncompressed) addresses for the airdrops.

Are you using Bitcoin Core? If so, it needs to download 150 GB, which can take hours to weeks, depending your internet connection and computer.
This is normal.

If you don't want this, you can download a wallet like Electrum.

It's not your wallet, it's Bittrex's wallet. That means you can't export that private key, only Bittrex can do that. But they won't.
A solution would be if they offer you to buy the private key to their deposit address at a fee, so you can recover any funds on your own. I haven't seen a single exchange that offers this though, so maybe it's not as easy as I think it is.

Good luck on your quest, post back here if you managed to recover your 0.09!