Thank you, I really appreciated the help and advice. 

Hi there,

Just when I thought I was getting someways into fully understanding this wallet it throws a curveball at me. I bought some bitcoins and had them send to me but for the first time ever the transaction states Unconfirmed Parent which I have never seen and don't understand. I bought the bitcoins from https://bt.cx/sv/ and I have never had any issues like this and they also set the fees so I dont understand how they can be unconfirmed.

Please help me out and let me know what has happened? Should Child Pays for Parent? Should I wait? I have it set to only spend confirmed bit coins.

Here is the transaction ID: 1f9e79a8dda7e084aa15e9bf31f244675a8d468e172c50ff0b6cdfb8c18a4d38.

Thank you in advance

Ctotoro

WOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Thank you guys so much I can see I'm getting confirmations now. This is awesome, you guys are all legends. I know you might thinking I'm making too much if big deal over this but anxiety pretty badly and when something like this happens its massive trigger so you all have literally lifted a weight off my shoulders. And I am taking everything on board that has been said and will continue to use this site. Maybe one day I'll be able help someone else. 

Wow, that site nearly blew my mind! I could not understand it all! I genuinely thought I knew everything I needed to know about using bitcoins but I definitely need to do more research as I said Ive been relying on websites to work everything out for me. I am so grateful to you for taking the time to help. I was not expecting a repose so fast, I have like a million questions I wish I could ask but I don't want to bombard anyone. Also I feel like SUCH dumbo! :-p

Thank you all for your replies, i really mean that. I wasn't expecting such a quick response and I am grateful to all of you. I agree about cancelling it, it was a waste of money and this has been a learning curve I won't forget! As I said I have increased the fee and I intend to try a learn more about the bitcoins on the technical side. I have been used to letting websites sites work my fees up until now so I assumed Electrum would do the same, talk about a DOH!!! moment when i read your replies. If any of you have any general advice to avoid this in the future please let me and again thank you so much.

Thank you so much for your reply, I have increased my fee to match the current rate. I feel pretty stupid for missing something has basic as that! I am counting my blessings that I have the electrum wallet that allows me to do that. Can you recommend a simple way to find out what the current bitcoin fee rate for the future? Again thank you so much for the help. I clearly still have a lot to learn. :-)

Hi there,

So I am a newbie when it comes to using the electrum wallet but I have been using bitcoins regularly for some time now. I decided to download and use the electrum wallet after reading so many positive things online but I feel like I am out of my depths now.

I had no problems buying bit coins and sending them to my electrum wallet but I have spent the last two days trying to send a payment and its stuck on unconfirmed. I have "cancelled" the payment once and it was returned to my wallet some time last night however before I cancelled I increased the fee and left it for a few hours, it didn't help.

I then tried to send the payment again allowing electrum to set the fees 0.3333 mBTC (30. sat/byte) and its stuck on unconfirmed again and I do not understand enough about blockchain or mining to know what the issue is. Im afraid that I have messed up the payment or setting up the wallet as its much more advanced than any other wallet I have used. But I have never had wait times like this before so Im assuming ive done something wrong. Due to my ignorance I don't understand the information given when I look up the transaction on blockchain etc.

The transaction ID is a8d3c56b1eb7f6a6a2af15325c497624b903f4ebf534013169d09092fd316604

If your feel like you can offer any advice please do, help a damsel in distress and I will be forever grateful.