Electrum : Transaction not confirming (since 8 hours)

[mapal123]

Hi,

Sent out transactions buch of times before with the same fee (0.00001 BTC), normally they have more than 3 confirmation within the hour.
It has been 8 hours now, so I am starting to get a little worried..!
This transaction will not confirm (o confirmations)
https://blockchain.info/tx/5b374492457ed50701ba8f6ec61766df4e5255d9126b8a36a284d31092877757

Can I stop the transaction if it has 0 confirmation??

Is it needed to broadcast it again with a higher fee (no idea how to do that).

Any help from someone? 

thanks guys

[steven0021]

If you usually get a confirmation within an hour with only 0.00001BTC and not 0.0001BTC fee then you're pretty lucky. 0.00001BTC is a very low fee.

achow101's transaction fee booster might be help you create another transaction with higher fee and broadcast it. I never actually tried broadcasting using it though (because I never need to) so I'm not sure if the transaction will be accepted by nodes or not.

[altcoinhosting]

255 bytes with a fee of  0.00001 BTC = 39 satoshi's per byte...

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ estimates it'll be confirmed in about 360 minutes using this fee... Offcourse, it's an estimation. It might be confirmed in the next block, or it might not confirm at all.

If it's really that urgent, you might try to double spend, as steven0021 already mentioned, achow101 wrote an easy to use transaction fee booster... You still need to know how to sign the unsigned transaction tough.
If it's not that urgent, just wait a couple of hours.

[steven0021]

255 bytes with a fee of  0.00001 BTC = 39 satoshi's per byte...

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ estimates it'll be confirmed in about 360 minutes using this fee... Offcourse, it's an estimation. It might be confirmed in the next block, or it might not confirm at all.

It's 3.9 satoshi per byte. Not 39.
I think OP set it manually and added an extra zero or something. That doesn't look like estimated fee.

[mapal123]

Sorry, I meant 0.0001  (4 zeroes not 5) was the default fee...
It is then 39 satoshis and 6 hours max estimated..??

Should I worry in that case??

Well, I will wait till tomorrow.
Transaction booster procedure does not seem that safe...don't want to loose my money though.
Is it the only way to go?

No way to block the transaction when it was brodcasted and 0 confirmations?? Sorry if it is a stupid question (I imagine once a transaction is signed you cannot unsign it)


Thankz

[steven0021]

Sorry, I meant 0.0001  (4 zeroes not 5) was the default fee...
It is then 39 satoshis and 6 hours max estimated..??

Should I worry in that case??

Well, I will wait till tomorrow.
Transaction booster procedure does not seem that safe...don't want to loose my money though.
Is it the only way to go?

No way to block the transaction when it was brodcasted and 0 confirmations?? Sorry if it is a stupid question (I imagine once a transaction is signed you cannot unsign it)


Thankz

The transaction you linked have 0.00001BTC (5 zeroes) fee...

Other ways:
1. Wait. If you're lucky the transaction will get confirmed. If not then it should be dropped by the majority of the nodes in a day or two, after that you can restore from seed so that the unconfirmed transaction will disappear from your wallet. The bitcoins will return to your wallet then.
2. Contact pool owners to include your transaction in their block. They may ask for a small payment. Users macbook-air and Quickseller can push transactions to F2Pool, apparently.
3. Attempt Child Pays For Parent by sending the bitcoins from that transaction to another address of yours with higher fee (0.001BTC should be enough). This doesn't always make the transaction confirmed fast so make sure not to include bitcoins from another transaction or they'll stay unconfirmed together (if it doesn't work).