In the year 2014 ~ how many days can a BTC transaction go unconfirmed?

[Bit_Happy]

I usually pay fees, but chose the wrong time to save a little bit. I have a transaction (offering no fees) for ~$20 of BTC that is sitting "dead" for over 48 hours.

In the year 2014 ~ how many days can a BTC transaction go unconfirmed?

[jubalix]

I usually pay fees, but chose the wrong time to save a little bit. I have a transaction (offering no fees) for ~$20 of BTC that is sitting "dead" for over 48 hours.

In the year 2014 ~ how many days can a BTC transaction go unconfirmed?

use pywallet kill the transaction or resend the transaction

[DannyHamilton]

I usually pay fees, but chose the wrong time to save a little bit. I have a transaction (offering no fees) for ~$20 of BTC that is sitting "dead" for over 48 hours.

In the year 2014 ~ how many days can a BTC transaction go unconfirmed?

That depends on the wallet you used to send it.  Did you use Bitcoin-Qt? MultiBit? Electrum? Armory? Blockchain.info?

In some cases it could remain unconfirmed until you remove the transaction from your wallet.  In other cases the wallet will stop broadcasting the transaction after a few days.

[Bit_Happy]

I usually pay fees, but chose the wrong time to save a little bit. I have a transaction (offering no fees) for ~$20 of BTC that is sitting "dead" for over 48 hours.

In the year 2014 ~ how many days can a BTC transaction go unconfirmed?

That depends on the wallet you used to send it.  Did you use Bitcoin-Qt? MultiBit? Electrum? Armory? Blockchain.info?

In some cases it could remain unconfirmed until you remove the transaction from your wallet.  In other cases the wallet will stop broadcasting the transaction after a few days.

blockchain.info
I'm looking and don't see how to remove/cancel?

[Winalunt]

The fees are just a little why don pay ?

[Bit_Happy]

I usually pay fees,...

The fees are just a little why don pay ?

I am asking how to fix it.

[DannyHamilton]

I usually pay fees, but chose the wrong time to save a little bit. I have a transaction (offering no fees) for ~$20 of BTC that is sitting "dead" for over 48 hours.

In the year 2014 ~ how many days can a BTC transaction go unconfirmed?

That depends on the wallet you used to send it.  Did you use Bitcoin-Qt? MultiBit? Electrum? Armory? Blockchain.info?

In some cases it could remain unconfirmed until you remove the transaction from your wallet.  In other cases the wallet will stop broadcasting the transaction after a few days.

blockchain.info
I'm looking and don't see how to remove/cancel?

There is no way to remove/cancel.  All you can do is wait.  Blockchain.info has a policy of not broadcasting transactions that haven't confirmed yet after a few days.  Then the funds show up back in your wallet if nobody else is broadcasting it.

I'm not sure the exact amount of time before they do that, but I think it is more than 72 hours and probably less than 120 hours.

[Bit_Happy]

Thanks for the info   

[MakeBelieve]

The fees may be little for now but when more coins are mined the fees will go up and I'm sure a lot of people would rather not pay the fee which could become a big problem for Bitcoin as it could take days/weeks to send a single transaction.

[Meuh6879]

it's not a problem for bitcoin (or bitcoin-QT).
it's a problem for users that they don't understand the value of this network.

in bitcoin-QT, 20USD is 40mBTC ... for this, you must include 0,1mBTC of fee in Bitcoin-QT.
this software don't allow the 0 fee transaction.