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January 25, 2013, 10:33:35 PM |
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Im waiting on these bitcoins.
I sent bitcoins to the address, Then again i sent bitcoins 5 minutes later, the bitcoins 5 minutes later are there, the bitcoins i sent first are not there.
Blockchain.info says Unconfirmed Transaction"
What do i do? did i loose $300 in coin?
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January 25, 2013, 10:39:17 PM |
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Im waiting on these bitcoins.
I sent bitcoins to the address, Then again i sent bitcoins 5 minutes later, the bitcoins 5 minutes later are there, the bitcoins i sent first are not there.
Blockchain.info says Unconfirmed Transaction"
What do i do? did i loose $300 in coin?
u gotta be kidding right?
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[GPG Public Key]BTC/DVC/TRC/FRC: 1 K1773RbXRZVRQSSXe9N6N2MUFERvrdu6y ANC/XPM A K1773RTmRKtvbKBCrUu95UQg5iegrqyeA NMC: N K1773Rzv8b4ugmCgX789PbjewA9fL9Dy1 LTC: L Ki773RBuPepQH8E6Zb1ponoCvgbU7hHmd EMC: E K1773RxUes1HX1YAGMZ1xVYBBRUCqfDoF BQC: b K1773R1APJz4yTgRkmdKQhjhiMyQpJgfN
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January 25, 2013, 10:41:22 PM |
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Dude im sorry but i have no idea what the means,
Call me stupid, a noob w/e i just dont know what that means. First time i ever had this happen.
So no im not kidding.
I am guessing, something happened with the original transaction, and now its just sitting?
How long does it take to get info another block?
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January 25, 2013, 10:43:14 PM |
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Unconfirmed just means that it hasn't been written to stone in the blockchain yet. It'll get there eventually. You haven't lost anything if you see an unconfirmed transaction at blockchain.info - it just means that it hasn't been processed yet (effectively).
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January 25, 2013, 10:45:21 PM |
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A score is calculated to determine how 'important' your transaction is. More coins are more important. Older coins are more important. Paying the transaction fee makes them more important. Then the highest scoring TXs get batched up and included in the next block. If that block fills up, the lower scoring transactions stick around and need to go in a later block.
In this case one transaction probably had a lower score for some reason, and takes a while to get the first transaction.
Not sure what you're doing, but eventually that transaction will hit the right threshold and go through. So you'll have paid twice. Since I don't know the details, I'm not sure if you can get someone to send one payment back.
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January 25, 2013, 10:46:54 PM |
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Just wait.
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January 25, 2013, 10:47:20 PM |
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Thank You sgtspike,
i was thinking thats what it ment. But now its been 2hrs and nothing has changed so, freaked me out some
How much are the payments? there only like 0.005 btc correct?
@kgo Thank you for the info, very informative
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January 25, 2013, 10:52:50 PM |
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Dude im sorry but i have no idea what the means,
Call me stupid, a noob w/e i just dont know what that means. First time i ever had this happen.
So no im not kidding.
I am guessing, something happened with the original transaction, and now its just sitting?
How long does it take to get info another block?
i would recommend u to read the basics of BTC @ wiki
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[GPG Public Key]BTC/DVC/TRC/FRC: 1 K1773RbXRZVRQSSXe9N6N2MUFERvrdu6y ANC/XPM A K1773RTmRKtvbKBCrUu95UQg5iegrqyeA NMC: N K1773Rzv8b4ugmCgX789PbjewA9fL9Dy1 LTC: L Ki773RBuPepQH8E6Zb1ponoCvgbU7hHmd EMC: E K1773RxUes1HX1YAGMZ1xVYBBRUCqfDoF BQC: b K1773R1APJz4yTgRkmdKQhjhiMyQpJgfN
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January 25, 2013, 10:58:38 PM |
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Thank You sgtspike,
i was thinking thats what it ment. But now its been 2hrs and nothing has changed so, freaked me out some
How much are the payments? there only like 0.005 btc correct?
@kgo Thank you for the info, very informative
Sometimes payments never go through, but it is rare, and if you are using any sort of default client to send the money, you shouldn't run into that problem - it'll automatically add a fee if a transaction is so low of priority that it will take a long time to go through. That said, it is extremely odd that $300 worth of BTC hasn't made it into the blockchain within a couple of hours. Care to link to the address you are looking at?
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January 25, 2013, 11:25:04 PM |
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ok, 3hrs 20mins later, just rechecked blockchain and its got 2 confirmations.
Sorry for the stupid question initially. But all seems well now.
Thank you every1 for your help
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January 25, 2013, 11:43:51 PM |
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March 06, 2013, 10:59:36 AM |
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Thanks that's comforting to know. I had the same question after waiting about an hour for the first confirmation on a transaction. As an added bonus my coins came in while I was reading this thread!
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April 23, 2013, 04:00:48 PM |
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Makes one wonder if it will ever be possible to pay a $5 coffee with bitcoin, if it takes hours to get confirmed.
Unless one pays a hefty % premium for transaction fees to speed it through.
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April 23, 2013, 05:00:38 PM |
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Patience is a virtue.
RTFM too
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April 24, 2013, 02:14:17 AM |
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Makes one wonder if it will ever be possible to pay a $5 coffee with bitcoin, if it takes hours to get confirmed.
Unless one pays a hefty % premium for transaction fees to speed it through.
I'm not sure that a $0.07 fee on a $5 coffee would be considered "a hefty % premium". That being said, a merchant isn't going to wait for confirmations to sell you a $5 coffee. If they are willing to accept bitcoin for the purchase, then they'll either be willing to accept it with 0 confirmations, or they'll have a third-party service that will handle the risk.
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