Help - Find out reasons about a unverified transaction (fees raised?)

[whiskeyjack]

Hello,

I made a transfer froma Multibit BTC address to another address (not related to Multibit), and the matter is that after almost 12 hours the transaction is not yet confirmed.

https://blockchain.info/tx-index/32f4655d22dd2ddfc0e1da4a6bc26887df6d813a86bdfbf7dfa6f7c7dd4da841

I wonder what could be wrong. I found out that my version of Multibit does not allow custom fees (time to retire it, and move to one which allows custom fees), just the standard of 0.0001 BTC.

I checked the size of transaction (some dust there is ) and it is 964 bytes, still under the 1KB, so I wonder if the fee per KB has been raised, and that's why it is not being verified?

Or is being another spam stress activity running in the  Bitcoin network? I have tried to find info about this topic, even found that we shouldeven wait a max of 5 days...  Yet never happened to me this before. And there is no way to stop the transaction from Multibit. So, any ideas what's going on?

Also any specific thread in this forum, or any other website, to now the live status of the Bitcoin network (if fees conditions change, or if there is some stress , etc)?

Thanks in advanced for any clarification. Cheers

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[ticoti]

It is being more stress testing in the network
many people having the same problem

[Hexcoin]

there are currently 4000+ unconfirmed transactions so your transaction is one of them that got stuck for now, the normal number of unconfirmed transaction is only around <1k-2k depends on the time when the last transaction is found so most probably there is some kind of spam attack again in the network

EDIT: new block found and your transaction is now confirmed

[whiskeyjack]

It is being more stress testing in the network
many people having the same problem

there are currently 4000+ unconfirmed transactions so your transaction is one of them that got stuck for now, the normal number of unconfirmed transaction is only around <1k-2k depends on the time when the last transaction is found so most probably there is some kind of spam attack again in the network

EDIT: new block found and your transaction is now confirmed

Much appreciated your prompt answers ticoti and Hexcoin! Yeah! I'm getting thrilled that finally the thing starts moving!

Well I found that we can check how many of them are unconfirmed live, at https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions?show_adv=false.

Although, any  thread in this forum, or any other place to stay tuned about such spam attacks? It would be great to stay aware and avoid doing certain transactions, if the BTC network is  stuck like that

[Hexcoin]

Although, any  thread in this forum, or any other place to stay tuned about such spam attacks? It would be great to stay aware and avoid doing certain transactions, if the BTC network is  stuck like that

last time i know about the stress test, that is posted in the bitcoin discussion thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0

[lissandra]

Its not the fees are raised, its more of the importance of finding your transaction for the miners in a priority order.

From big to the least amount, so its better to send amounts of 0.01 or higher in my experience.

[goosoodude]

there are currently 4000+ unconfirmed transactions so your transaction is one of them that got stuck for now, the normal number of unconfirmed transaction is only around <1k-2k depends on the time when the last transaction is found so most probably there is some kind of spam attack again in the network

EDIT: new block found and your transaction is now confirmed

These 4000 unconfirmed transactions are in fact not the real amount of unconfirmed transactions because blockchain.info decided they would filter out spam transactions. I can't understand why they did this. Doesn't make sense at all.

[jim618]

Tradeblock has a very nice visualisation of the current state of unconfirmed transactions:

https://tradeblock.com/blockchain

AFAIK it is unfiltered,  which in this case is what you want