Bitcoins still unconfirmed after 5 hours?

[chongin]

Hi I just sent 2.43 btc from localbitcoins to another wallet at 7pm it is now nearly 12 and it is still showing up as no confirmations on blockchain.
Don't think I've ever had it take this long in 3 years, any ideas what the hold up could be?

Here is a link to the transaction - https://blockchain.info/address/13okt3FMVCmbDsQQ3oXsvYroArTjVYj1xc

Thanks

[jbrnt]

Excuse my short answer, there are so many of these questions today. Your transaction is similar to these I have answered:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1111995.msg11808685#msg11808685
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1111811.msg11807996#msg11807996

Edit: It's confirmed now! Congrats 

[CrazyJoker]

Hi I just sent 2.43 btc from localbitcoins to another wallet at 7pm it is now nearly 12 and it is still showing up as no confirmations on blockchain.
Don't think I've ever had it take this long in 3 years, any ideas what the hold up could be?

Here is a link to the transaction - https://blockchain.info/address/13okt3FMVCmbDsQQ3oXsvYroArTjVYj1xc

Thanks

Mine too - https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/e2438c4261288088e4a4fade7e137b9880095add5b335311fbdb4983b178884d

Seems like another stress test is going on. Backlog is building up on mempool. Most of the last blocks are 900+ KB.

[scarsbergholden]

Hi I just sent 2.43 btc from localbitcoins to another wallet at 7pm it is now nearly 12 and it is still showing up as no confirmations on blockchain.
Don't think I've ever had it take this long in 3 years, any ideas what the hold up could be?

Here is a link to the transaction - https://blockchain.info/address/13okt3FMVCmbDsQQ3oXsvYroArTjVYj1xc

Thanks

Mine too - https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/e2438c4261288088e4a4fade7e137b9880095add5b335311fbdb4983b178884d

Seems like another stress test is going on. Backlog is building up on mempool. Most of the last blocks are 900+ KB.

Most defednly is building up on sections, makes me wonder how long this the test will keep on going, i did when down a bit hopefully is not a 24hrs stress.

[PenguinFire]

5 hours as happened to me two or three times.  I guess my online wallet was not providing a big enough transaction fee. 

[scarsbergholden]

After looking at the transactions chart could we say that this stress test is looking to break 200,000 transactions or at lease get close to it https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=2year&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=

[RocketSingh]

Hi I just sent 2.43 btc from localbitcoins to another wallet at 7pm it is now nearly 12 and it is still showing up as no confirmations on blockchain.
Don't think I've ever had it take this long in 3 years, any ideas what the hold up could be?

Here is a link to the transaction - https://blockchain.info/address/13okt3FMVCmbDsQQ3oXsvYroArTjVYj1xc

Thanks

Mine too - https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/e2438c4261288088e4a4fade7e137b9880095add5b335311fbdb4983b178884d

Seems like another stress test is going on. Backlog is building up on mempool. Most of the last blocks are 900+ KB.

It seems this Tx is still pending. What's going on ?

[lucaspm98]

Seems to be fine now.

[MaxLBC]

Hi I just sent 2.43 btc from localbitcoins to another wallet at 7pm it is now nearly 12 and it is still showing up as no confirmations on blockchain.
Don't think I've ever had it take this long in 3 years, any ideas what the hold up could be?

Here is a link to the transaction - https://blockchain.info/address/13okt3FMVCmbDsQQ3oXsvYroArTjVYj1xc

Thanks

Mine too - https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/e2438c4261288088e4a4fade7e137b9880095add5b335311fbdb4983b178884d

Seems like another stress test is going on. Backlog is building up on mempool. Most of the last blocks are 900+ KB.

It seems this Tx is still pending. What's going on ?

There are A LOT of unconfirmed transactions in the blockchain. Depending on when you made your transaction out your LocalBitcoins wallet you may have sent it before we raised our fees. We've made a few more adjustments to them to help transactions confirm but we still have transactions from yesterday which haven't gone through. As this is a problem with the Blockchain there's nothing that we can do now for transactions that have already been broadcasted.

Max
Community Manager
LocalBitcoins

[BillyBobZorton]

No problems here. I always use the default transaction fee (which is usually set automatically). Remember to always set it on automatic.
It seems tho that those spam tests are having an impact on lots of people's business.