I have seen many other members saying to try their service at viabtc. But I also saw some other saying not to due to security being a part of one of the things that come to mind.
So you are saying that is in fact safe to use their so called service to expediate the sends stuck in the blockchain?
There is a thread that was just started in discussion that stated there was 81,000 unconfirmed transactions documented around 23 minutes ago. That sure is alot and I think more than last time this happened.
It took almost the entire 72 hours to get my first confirmation last time this happened.
That is why I am inquiring about this viabtc service now.
Thanks.
Did you know that it's possible to ask a question without writing an entire paragraph with a whole tangent in the middle? You should do that because your post is almost off topic and signature spam. In fact, it probably is signature spam but it is a legitimate question so I won't delete it.
There is no risk to using services like ViaBTC's. They only ask for a transaction id, and anyone can submit a transaction to be "accelerated". Transaction ids are already public, as are the details of everyone's transactions, so it doesn't matter. Revealing your transaction id or its details does not reduce your security as everyone running a full node already knows the details of your transaction, and anyone can easily lookup your transaction in any block explorer. Their service "accelerates" transactions by increasing the priority of the transaction in the mempool of their mining pool. That means that if ViaBTC's mining pool finds a block, it has a higher probability of being included in the block.
Also, transactions are not "stuck in the blockchain". They are not in the blockchain, thus they cannot be stuck in it. The whole point of mining and confirmations is to be included in the blockchain. "Stuck" transactions are just transactions that have remained unconfirmed for longer than the sender or receiver wants it to be.