Block Inclusion Timeframes

[bigvern]

I've been seeing some cases where transactions are taking quite awhile to get into a block.   Here is a recent example:

https://blockchain.info/tx/63603266e15bd8734899b87c6f46320b56544b9f3b3f86ddeaa7de6599a3d036

Received on 2013-11-07 but included into block on 2013-11-09.  There was a fee posted of 0.0002 btc.

Anybody have any ideas?  Would increasing the fee to 0.001 help?  I'm already setting it to twice what the default fee is.


BigVern

[mpfrank]

I've been seeing some cases where transactions are taking quite awhile to get into a block.   Here is a recent example:

https://blockchain.info/tx/63603266e15bd8734899b87c6f46320b56544b9f3b3f86ddeaa7de6599a3d036

Received on 2013-11-07 but included into block on 2013-11-09.  There was a fee posted of 0.0002 btc.

Anybody have any ideas?  Would increasing the fee to 0.001 help?  I'm already setting it to twice what the default fee is.


BigVern

The average transaction time has increased significantly in the last week:

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time?timespan=30days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

On this other thread, people were pointing out that some miners were mining unusually small blocks (not including all the pending transactions).  Perhaps we are starting to see the emergence of malicious mining.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=328563.0