Unconfirmed transaction - 9 hours!

[madmartyk]

I have 1 that has been out there for over 2 days (yes the transaction fee is low), the other has been a high priority for over a day.  TX=af0b0314687dccefd7a93a8c743723935e6c995e416e5502e9719d4ccfec9056

It doesn't have a low fee warning.  But I have adjusted my fee to what has been posted as standard here.

[-Greed-]

I've got the same shit. 2 BTC withdrawn from poloniex is stuck. Tx: a2ee8ad3d201954b502733fa0697c6761b38ee67a4f9f51a8b307142dfbdbe27
The block size must be increased!

[lorylore]

Last days many people are having issues with bitcoin transactions. Including me also.
This "stress" test should be stop and everything must go back normal

[Amph]

i'm using the standard fee of 10k and no issue so far, i performed some microtransactions, everything was good in less than 1 hours, maybe just luck...

[jertsy]

Last days many people are having issues with bitcoin transactions. Including me also.
This "stress" test should be stop and everything must go back normal

Some safeguards need building into the Bitcoin wallets to prevent this type of spam attack working in the future. There will be endless copycat attacks now it's been demonstrated to work and have a serious effect on the network. Has there been any word from the core devs about a fix yet?

[BillyBobZorton]

That's nothing. There was a reported unconfirmed transaction that got stuck for 17+ hours reported here in the forums (can't find the thread right now but it should be easy to find) so don't be surprised if it takes an entire day for it for confirmations to start happening.

[madmartyk]

This one has been unconfirmed since the 6th.  fb402d240f1258a472f7ecca00b62994165620a7168ce19f80f4b8bddbe7b6ec

Yes I know the TX fees were screwed up.  I usually go by what the client thinks it should use.  That has been changed.

[EndTheFed321]

3 days and waiting for this one to confirm

c3c13053f54101413e2e638ccf0e3be32956e7e0e2c95451bd9996da84723128-000

[Buttknuckle]

Yeah thanks for the heads up guys, I have been having slow transactions too.  I guess I just need to bump up the fee a little bit to get my stuff to go through.

[ayesha201006]

This is so silly!  What did they think would happen with the stress test!  Just wait, the backlog should clear soon.

[madmartyk]

This is so silly!  What did they think would happen with the stress test!  Just wait, the backlog should clear soon.

Just looked out the window, no flying pigs yet!!! 

[lorylore]

3 days and waiting for this one to confirm

c3c13053f54101413e2e638ccf0e3be32956e7e0e2c95451bd9996da84723128-000

It is not 3 days, it shows that today was made that transaction:
Medium Priority because of the low fee
Fees    0.00000375 BTC

[madmartyk]

3 days and waiting for this one to confirm

c3c13053f54101413e2e638ccf0e3be32956e7e0e2c95451bd9996da84723128-000

I know there is a low fee, it was sent Date: 7/6/2015 17:12

It is not 3 days, it shows that today was made that transaction:
Medium Priority because of the low fee
Fees    0.00000375 BTC

[spazzdla]

I've got the same shit. 2 BTC withdrawn from poloniex is stuck. Tx: a2ee8ad3d201954b502733fa0697c6761b38ee67a4f9f51a8b307142dfbdbe27
The block size must be increased!

That is not a solution.  It's really not a spam attack can be done on a 100mB blocks

[adzino]

Same thing for me. Did a 0.021btc transaction. No confirmation. Almost 24+hours. Did add miners fee. About 10k sat. Medium priority :/

[tuvok007]

I m waiting for 75 hours now and still nothing.one exchange sent me 0.9 btc three days ago and theres not even one confirmation yet.
https://blockchain.info/address/1BnvHarta94JvXrY7oT272qTBEvgMdRk2S

[BrianM]

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bitmixer.io is indeed a legitimate service, I have used them many times.

My best guess is that transactions of very low amounts (and especially very low fees) are the ones with looooong confirmation times.  

Two examples:

1)  A few days ago bitmixer sent a small payment to ME, but it took some 40 + hours to confirm (as they sent the payment with a close to $0.00 miner's fee).  I did get it confirmed, but it took a long time.

2)  As a test during perhaps the worst of the "stress test" / spamming / attack (July 6), I sent myself a small transaction of about BTC0.005, but with a large fee: BTC0.0006 ($0.16).  The transaction was confirmed on the next block.  Reconfirmed on the one after that.

Notice the pattern?  Be a tiny bit generous, and you get your payments confirmed.  Be really stingy, and the miners will not bother confirming you when THEY are under attack as well, and not getting any payment.......

I think this post is worth paying attention to. I think it is really important to that people start realize that there is connection between the chance of your tx to be added to a found block and the size of the tx fee. It is really up to the miners if they want to add your tx to the block or not, but a high fee will really increase your chance. I have noticed that when cyber-bank-robbers steal bitcoins from the bticoins exhance then do they use 1 BTC in tx fee, in these case then was the tx included in very next block. Not saying you should pay that much, but if you have a tx where the addresss is valid for a time limited time, then pay a good extra fee, in the case in OP, then would I have paid 0.005.

[Argwai96]

I guess we have a lot of people not understanding that with this volume of transactions the only things that's going to get you moving is paying higher fees, well at lease .0002 to .0009 for a transactions is my experience so far when i needed to send bitcoin and its working.

[erikalui]

I feel that blockchain is having an issue as 0.0001 BTC is their normal fee and still the transaction is unconfirmed so in this case even setting a higher fee won't work. You need to wait till blockchain is back to normal.

[BayAreaCoins]

It feels like the miners are just straight out ignoring anything under a .0005 fee.