Low fee stuck for 4 days transferring to CoinBase

[BitFreak7000]

Hi All.

I've been scouring the internet for the past couple of days trying to figure out how to regain access to BTC that was transferred from Electrum to CoinBase, but I haven't been able to get anything to work that is understandable.

This is the last time I am going to choose a low fee in the electrum slider.

It showed up in my coinbase account as a pending transaction but now that is missing as well.

I was hoping I could just wait it out after 3 days, but now 4 days later, I am getting concerned and need to send this payment to someone.


Here is the TX Id in question:
d99ee855c8796faa2cb1c06b6ba36dcb8b5c359d70380ea84f0c3e521338306f

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[pooya87]

your transaction is already confirmed.
the problem was low fees, the reason was that you got unlucky. if you have sent it half a day sooner it would have been confirmed in next block (less than 10 minutes). you just sent this transaction near the time the spam attack started and the number of unconfirmed transactions went from 1100 to 40,000 within 6 hours.

you can always check this: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions to see how many unconfirmed tx are there approximately and make sure to always check the RBF on your transactions so that you can bump its fee if it was stuck like this.

as for coinbase, now that it is confirmed you should see the funds in your account. if not just contact them and give them the tx id and it will be fixed.

[BitFreak7000]

Thanks for your input!

cissrawk pushed it thru for me. His words on the topic:

"You have a lot accelerator choice, first is via btc https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ but its just accept 100 transaction/hour and fee isnt less than 10 sat/b . Second is https://www.antpool.com/user/prioritiseTransaction.htm , you need register first to access it, can submit multiple transaction in one time. Third is https://confirmtx.com , the easiest because no need to register and doesnt have limit, but if your transaction size is more than 500 byte, you need to pay them $4, if not then it will free."

[Abdussamad]

To avoid this sort of situation in future follow the first 2 steps below and make sure you are aware of step 3:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1916963.msg19015496#msg19015496