I accidentally the transaction fee, what do?

[Wenter]

Hi all,

I feel like an idiot now. I just sent some bitcoins to an exchange which requires 6 confirmations for the funds to appear on your account. I was pretty worried when I saw that I had no confirmations at all even after an hour of waiting. I checked the transaction on the blockchain and BAM! It turned out that I forgot to include a transaction fee. I'm worried that my deposit address will change before I manage to get the 6 confirmations. How screwed am I? This is the transaction on blockchain.info: http://blockchain.info/en/tx/42fa0c593d74e7dd6974ae12eca433fbeb7f3ba7602b18ff0ff5cd0aaa6d1d3d


P.S. Sorry for the title, I just had to do it

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[Stephen Gornick]

It turned out that I forgot to include a transaction fee. I'm worried that my deposit address will change before I manage to get the 6 confirmations. How screwed am I?

Well, there's no reason it won't eventually confirm so now it is just a matter of transactions sitting ahead of yours getting included before yours will get in.

But there's no way to speed it up at all, nor any way to cancel it.

I'm worried that my deposit address will change before I manage to get the 6 confirmations.

If this is to Camp BX, the payment has already been sent so their new address expiration policy (which I strongly disagree with, personally) shouldn't be relevant. 

If instead this was a payment to a payment processor, they too show a countdown timer but that is met by the transaction getting broadcast and won't expire if confirmations don't occur in time.

[grue]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232979.0
check the "How do I resend a transaction with extra fee?" heading.

[SaltySpitoon]

I accidentally sent two transactions last night without fees. The first one took about 6 hours to get 6 confirmations, the 2nd one took about 20 minutes. And the two transactions were within 15 seconds of each other. So yeah, its not a huge deal, you can either just wait and hope you get lucky, or cancel and resubmit with the fee as grue linked to.

[roxannemmorganB599]

How to send without paying transaction fees?

[SaltySpitoon]

How to send without paying transaction fees?

Well, in Setting > Options > Main on the BTC QT wallet, you can adjust what fee you wish to pay for transactions, however I believe the reccomended fee is still .001 or .0005 BTC. If you set it to no fee, you are likely to have to wait a long time for sent coins to be recieved.

[Wenter]

Thanks a lot for calming me down guys, I'm using a wallet from blockchain.info, so I guess I'll just wait 30 hours