Egad. 81,000 + Transactions Unconfirmed. Again. Ugh!

[wisqo]

The fees are way to high AND the transactions take way to long to confirm!

This pretty much defeats the purpose of having a cryptocurrency that is fast, cheap and reliable to use. Basically goes against everything bitcoin stands for.

[kiklo]

I can't buy with gift cards or them shitcoins you talk of that I buy or sell with BTC. What exactly? Has nothing to do with you I'm afraid.

No offense, considering those other coins are currently transferable and BTC is not,  you may want to reevaluate your definition of Shitcoin.

So what you are saying is you are doing something illegal, in that case you should be using Dash or Monero.

BTC transactions are traceable.  

 

[talkbitcoin]

Anytime BTC unconfirmed transactions are more 10,000 ,
I use LTC or Eth or Doge until it drops back down.

So exactly what are you using BTC for that the others won't work?

- buy a game on steam
- pay for my VPN subscription
- add money to my Microsoft account
- recharge my mobile
- buy something from OpenBazaar
- pay for lots of other small services
- buy giftcards that you seem to be so fund of.
- transfer money to someone else through bitcoin so that he can sell it easily all the way on the other side of the word and there is noone accepting altcoins for fiat there.

and many more that i can not think of right now (since the above are things that i have done but there are more), and none of them are possible with any of the altcoins. specially not with ETH

[kiklo]

Anytime BTC unconfirmed transactions are more 10,000 ,
I use LTC or Eth or Doge until it drops back down.

So exactly what are you using BTC for that the others won't work?

- buy a game on steam
- pay for my VPN subscription  
- add money to my Microsoft account
- recharge my mobile
- buy something from OpenBazaar
- pay for lots of other small services
- buy giftcards that you seem to be so fund of.
- transfer money to someone else through bitcoin so that he can sell it easily all the way on the other side of the word and there is noone accepting altcoins for fiat there.

and many more that i can not think of right now (since the above are things that i have done but there are more), and none of them are possible with any of the altcoins. specially not with ETH

I think you are missing the point at the moment your BTC Transfers is taking days, and may time out of the mempool , requiring you to resend.

bitpay.com converts BTC to a Debit card , which you can use to pay your stuff with NO WAIT.
- buy a game on steam
- pay for my VPN subscription  
- add money to my Microsoft account
- recharge my mobile
- buy something from OpenBazaar
- pay for lots of other small services
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As for your silly reference here:  transfer money to someone else through bitcoin so that he can sell it easily all the way on the other side of the word and there is noone accepting altcoins for fiat there.

If anyone is so stupid they can't convert LTC to BTC on an exchange and then cash out to Fiat from the exchange , They are too stupid to use Crypto
If BTC Transfers are not working , then you can't transfer BTC, Genius.  
Better mail a check to those poor posers.
Or use moneygram at walmart, it is faster than BTC : https://www.walmart.com/cp/online-money-transfers/1089406

 

[requester]

with increasingly heavy demand on bitcoin more and more people are joining the network and its a good sign for us because more people means more opportunities and more opportunities means  better and improved lifestyle. so to make the network lag free our developers should really make a strong change in the system to make the network work smoothly.

[LLec]

The enourmous amount of unconfirmed transactions is NOT acceptable, i think the devs have realized that they should do something,

but guess what, it seems they don´t care. Maby BTC was the first and original one, but wont be the one which will be used in the end ...

The fees are way to high AND the transactions take way to long to confirm!

Ok now. I just sent a $1 transaction and put $0.46 as a miners fee for the transaction to confirm in 10 minutes as they said at the bottom of the screen like it said it would after sending it.
60 minutes later nothing has been confirmed yet.
The thing was sent with 87 sat/B.
So what the hell now do these people have to say about sending enough for the miners fee to get it to confirm properly

[cryp24x]

One of those transaction is mine.  I have an unconfirmed transaction for 24 hours, funny that even a 31k satoshi transaction fee is not enough now in sending a 0.015  BTC.  I wonder when will the developer fix this issue, when will they act together as one to fix the problem.  Are miners intentionally setting the transaction fee they pick up that high?

[LLec]

One of those transaction is mine.  I have an unconfirmed transaction for 24 hours, funny that even a 31k satoshi transaction fee is not enough now in sending a 0.015  BTC.  I wonder when will the developer fix this issue, when will they act together as one to fix the problem.  Are miners intentionally setting the transaction fee they pick up that high?

Obviously not. Because I intentionally put added a transaction fee of almost 50% worth of the sent amount towards it. So that is not the reasoning behind with which they choose to send depending on the fee amount put along with the sent amount for the transaction.
I did it as a test to see if it did but my findings show it definitely is not!

[cryp24x]

One of those transaction is mine.  I have an unconfirmed transaction for 24 hours, funny that even a 31k satoshi transaction fee is not enough now in sending a 0.015  BTC.  I wonder when will the developer fix this issue, when will they act together as one to fix the problem.  Are miners intentionally setting the transaction fee they pick up that high?

Obviously not. Because I intentionally put added a transaction fee of almost 50% worth of the sent amount towards it. So that is not the reasoning behind with which they choose to send depending on the fee amount put along with the sent amount for the transaction.
I did it as a test to see if it did but my findings show it definitely is not!

Does this mean that dev really need a tweak on the block size of Bitcoin to enable more transaction to be accommodated or activate segwit to enable offchain transactions for faster transfer?  If it is not the miner, definitely it is the block size, is it?

[bravehearth0319]

Oh no not again.
I just hope my send isn't one of those unconfirmed transactions.
I sent a $0.46 fee to send just $50 and that almost bare minimum blockchain.info told me I can send it and get it sent within 60 minutes.
Last time this happened it took 24 hours to get atleast 1 confirmation with the same amount sent as this one.
I thought they were getting this problem fixed with raising the transaction's miner fee before hand?

Oh common, this is the usual thing common problems in the blockchain, until now my transaction was unconfirmed its been 10 hours ago. I told and asked it to my friend, He just said to me if you want fast transaction give the highest fee amounted 1 or 2$, you've got to be kidding me.

[tech_solutions]

...

As I write there is another huge number of transactions in limbo.

Time to solve this problem, guys (lead developers).  Shape-up and fix this.

I grow somewhat disenchanted w/ BTC, even w/ paying higher fee (when I can) or w/ acceleration.

This happens almost each time their is price increase as most of them are ready to sell their coins on every rise as they are traders so the transaction delay is common

[lol3c]

Stop complaining due. Please increase the fee if you want to proceed your transaction. Or if you do not have money, you must have to wait in order to be confirmed. I have just sent 0.15 bitcoin with the fee of 70k satoshi and the miners confirmed it after 3 minutes. LOL. You can increase the fee, you know.

[LLec]

Stop complaining due. Please increase the fee if you want to proceed your transaction. Or if you do not have money, you must have to wait in order to be confirmed. I have just sent 0.15 bitcoin with the fee of 70k satoshi and the miners confirmed it after 3 minutes. LOL. You can increase the fee, you know.

So your saying on a 0.001btc send 0.0004401btc wasn't enough?
That is nearly 50% of the send there guy.

[dunfida]

This is not new anymore and as the years goes by bitcoin transactions are increasing which causes for this many unconfirmed transactions on the network which causes the delay.

[doomistake]

...

As I write there is another huge number of transactions in limbo.

Time to solve this problem, guys (lead developers).  Shape-up and fix this.

I grow somewhat disenchanted w/ BTC, even w/ paying higher fee (when I can) or w/ acceleration.

Bitcoin scaling is imminent, we need to implement the new feature, no matter SegWit, BU or 8 MB, only scaling can solve the huge number of transactions issue. Slow speed and high transaction fees kill bitcoin's larger adoption.

But we still need BU and SegWit because they are the one who are implementing the blockchain, and scaling can not solve the huge number of transaction issue, the problem here is that, the blockchain size is not big enough anymore to support the transactions that we are processing each day because of the rapidly growing of the bitcoin users population all around the world.

So, right now, we don't need to give negative thoughts or any offenses to blockchain, even though the fee each transaction just got higher than its price before, still, it is not enough for the blockchain to get this kind of feedbacks to us, they are doing the best that they can do, and we must also wait until this problem is over. It will take time, but you are sure that you are all still going to receive your bitcoins.

[lurker10]

Stop complaining due. Please increase the fee if you want to proceed your transaction. Or if you do not have money, you must have to wait in order to be confirmed. I have just sent 0.15 bitcoin with the fee of 70k satoshi and the miners confirmed it after 3 minutes. LOL. You can increase the fee, you know.

So your saying on a 0.001btc send 0.0004401btc wasn't enough?
That is nearly 50% of the send there guy.

Transaction amount is not relevant in calculating the proper fee.
What is relevant is the transaction size in bytes, how many inputs and outputs in the transaction.
You can send a million $$$ cheaper and with a faster confirmation than a few $$$ if the size of inputs/outputs in the former transaction is smaller than the latter.

[Bitcoinadam412]

Bitcoin Novice here and probably the bitcoin user you hate....

I use bitcoin solely to gamble with and use on offshore sportsbook.  i received a payout from one of them for the $475 amount and it got confirmed and i tried to then transfer it to my girlfriends wallet on coinbase VIA my block chain wallet so coinbase doesnt get all pissed off and see im using it for gambling.  my question is when i made my transaction to transfer my total bitcoins to my gf wallet theres no where that coinbase prompts you to send a higher fee and i just send the one they just tell you it is is there a sport im missing where i could of adjusted a fee... cause i have been waiting over 24 hours for this transaction

https://blockchain.info/address/1BCdTgCjUotwcJjoRjcTRPKnbw9ZAmXrxz

whats wrong with it? any thing i can do to speed it along?

[cryp24x]

Oh no not again.
I just hope my send isn't one of those unconfirmed transactions.
I sent a $0.46 fee to send just $50 and that almost bare minimum blockchain.info told me I can send it and get it sent within 60 minutes.
Last time this happened it took 24 hours to get atleast 1 confirmation with the same amount sent as this one.
I thought they were getting this problem fixed with raising the transaction's miner fee before hand?

Oh common, this is the usual thing common problems in the blockchain, until now my transaction was unconfirmed its been 10 hours ago. I told and asked it to my friend, He just said to me if you want fast transaction give the highest fee amounted 1 or 2$, you've got to be kidding me.

The problem here is the future, if the transaction fee keep on increasing doesn't it means that  bitcoin transaction will be more expensive than bank transfers or any third party processor that we are avoiding, the reason why we are using Bitcoin?  Now this is a battle of who is the highest payer get his transaction confirmed fast and not a third world country friendly.

and are you trying to say "come on"?

[lurker10]

Bitcoin Novice here and probably the bitcoin user you hate....

I use bitcoin solely to gamble with and use on offshore sportsbook.  i received a payout from one of them for the $475 amount and it got confirmed and i tried to then transfer it to my girlfriends wallet on coinbase VIA my block chain wallet so coinbase doesnt get all pissed off and see im using it for gambling.  my question is when i made my transaction to transfer my total bitcoins to my gf wallet theres no where that coinbase prompts you to send a higher fee and i just send the one they just tell you it is is there a sport im missing where i could of adjusted a fee... cause i have been waiting over 24 hours for this transaction

https://blockchain.info/address/1BCdTgCjUotwcJjoRjcTRPKnbw9ZAmXrxz

whats wrong with it? any thing i can do to speed it along?

Your transaction fee is only 65 sat/B, this is not sufficient for the current backlog to be processed quickly.
You could try accelerator https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
your transaction id: c8b7c7f840b5658adfd7628736ab0bb6d0451b4dfc7d5d3ed9b51cf7642f7e33

[LLec]

Oh no not again.
I just hope my send isn't one of those unconfirmed transactions.
I sent a $0.46 fee to send just $50 and that almost bare minimum blockchain.info told me I can send it and get it sent within 60 minutes.
Last time this happened it took 24 hours to get atleast 1 confirmation with the same amount sent as this one.
I thought they were getting this problem fixed with raising the transaction's miner fee before hand?

Oh common, this is the usual thing common problems in the blockchain, until now my transaction was unconfirmed its been 10 hours ago. I told and asked it to my friend, He just said to me if you want fast transaction give the highest fee amounted 1 or 2$, you've got to be kidding me.

The problem here is the future, if the transaction fee keep on increasing doesn't it means that  bitcoin transaction will be more expensive than bank transfers or any third party processor that we are avoiding, the reason why we are using Bitcoin?  Now this is a battle of who is the highest payer get his transaction confirmed fast and not a third world country friendly.

and are you trying to say "come on"?

It does look that way doesn't it?
But I will give him the benefit of the doubt in my translating these non-english the first language speak that is common on this forum.
He is probably, from what I can see into it clearly enough if you will, "it's common..". From after what he said right after.

But from what I was saying about my 1mbtc I sent it finally did complete with the nearly $0.46/87 satoshi per Byte.

It took over 2 hours and 15 minutes to completely confirm. When before I sent it blockchain.info was saying it would take 10~minutes to confirm with the amount I sent along with the transaction being the miner's transaction fee that I did specify. Details: 454193 ( 2017-02-22 14:14:54 + 134 minutes )