why is this transaction not confirming?

[leowonderful]

Guy sent me a half of writing payment to me, as he decided I still need a bit of work on the article, but somehow the payment he sent me is just not confirming. I suspect it's low fees.. here is the transaction.

https://blockchain.info/tx/8a6a3369d3b4a11e15569d2596f0d52b75924ec6c4fb5902729379657f451bc2

[NeuroticFish]

The fee is 5.2 satoshi / byte, meaning extremely low.
Somebody with 35 sat / byte is already waiting for more than 16h, you could have searched a little.
The mempool size is big for quite some time now: btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx

And small red flag: last time I've seen such tiny fee, the sender did that because he wanted to (and did) double spend, so please be careful.

[tampazeus]

Guy sent me a half of writing payment to me, as he decided I still need a bit of work on the article, but somehow the payment he sent me is just not confirming. I suspect it's low fees.. here is the transaction.

https://blockchain.info/tx/8a6a3369d3b4a11e15569d2596f0d52b75924ec6c4fb5902729379657f451bc2

due to very low transaction fees and high number of unconfirmed transactions on bitcoin  network I think your transaction will take a longer time to confirm.
currently there are over 40000 unconfirmed transactions
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

[shorena]

https://blockchain.info/tx/8a6a3369d3b4a11e15569d2596f0d52b75924ec6c4fb5902729379657f451bc2

Might as well push[1] that one as well, let me know when its confirmed please so I know when to stop.

[1] Use my node to keep broadcasting the transaction into the network so it is not forgotten.

[leowonderful]

https://blockchain.info/tx/8a6a3369d3b4a11e15569d2596f0d52b75924ec6c4fb5902729379657f451bc2

Might as well push[1] that one as well, let me know when its confirmed please so I know when to stop.

[1] Use my node to keep broadcasting the transaction into the network so it is not forgotten.

Thanks. The guy I'm receiving payment from looks like a decent guy and probably won't scam me, but if he does at least it'll be harder for the transaction to get out of the mempool and/or double-spend the payment. In normal times this would've been confirmed by now, but these are not normal times

[leowonderful]

https://blockchain.info/tx/8a6a3369d3b4a11e15569d2596f0d52b75924ec6c4fb5902729379657f451bc2

Might as well push[1] that one as well, let me know when its confirmed please so I know when to stop.

[1] Use my node to keep broadcasting the transaction into the network so it is not forgotten.

It's confirmed. This thread will now be locked. Thanks for the help, Shorena.