It has been over 24 hrs since I sant BTC Transaction still unconfiremd

[Tminer44]

It has been over 24 hrs since I sent BTC  Transaction still unconfirmed. It was sent using QT wallet and 0 fees. Howl ong does it take? Can I resend it using fees. They are going to cancel my order  Please help

[EvilPanda]

Sometimes transactions sent with no fee get stuck for a while. How much was it? It will get confirmed eventually, next time try to include the fee, it's such a small ammount that you'd probably think twice before picking it up from the pavement.

[Tminer44]

It was .36 bitcoins. Is there any way to re-do the transaction??

[Taras]

A tip from Taras: Include a 1 satoshi fee. I think it speeds things up monumentally compared to zero fee

[EvilPanda]

You can't do anything, but wait. If it doesn't get confirmed after 72h it should be sent back to you.

[Tminer44]

Is there anyway to rebroadcast it ?

[cooltoadfrommoon]

It has been over 24 hrs since I sent BTC  Transaction still unconfirmed. It was sent using QT wallet and 0 fees. Howl ong does it take? Can I resend it using fees. They are going to cancel my order  Please help

Are you sure you did not make any mistakes on the BTC address?

[DannyHamilton]

A tip from Taras: Include a 1 satoshi fee. I think it speeds things up monumentally compared to zero fee

Most miners treat a 1 satoshi fee the same as zero fees.  There isn't much sense in including a fee unless you are going to include at least 0.0001 BTC per kilobyte.

[DannyHamilton]

Is there anyway to rebroadcast it ?

In general, rebroadcasting isn't useful unless/until the transaction is dropped from the memory pool of most peers.

If miners were to take into consideration "child pays for parent", you could create a new transaction using the change from that previous transaction and include a fee large enough to encourage miners to confirm both transactions together.  Unfortunately, as far as I know there aren't any major mining pools that have implemented "child pays for parent".

[Karen98]

It can take 2-4 days for an unfunded transaction to arrive.

[Lieji]

0-fee transactions usually take a long time (from a few hours to a few days) to get confirmed, but it will eventually be included in a block.

So, you need to be patient now

[Predatorian]

0-fee transactions usually take a long time (from a few hours to a few days) to get confirmed, but it will eventually be included in a block.

So, you need to be patient now

yup exactly this, if something gonna be wrong, the transaction just gonna be recalled to u.

[mprep]

0-fee transactions usually take a long time (from a few hours to a few days) to get confirmed, but it will eventually be included in a block.

So, you need to be patient now

If it doesn't get confirmed, some Bitcoin clients usually delete the transaction after some time

[DeathAndTaxes]

You can't do anything, but wait. If it doesn't get confirmed after 72h it should be sent back to you.

I have seen this repeated a lot, please don't tell people this.  The QT client for example NEVER gives up.  It will keep trying to broadcast a tx for 72 years.

[jbrnt]

There are so many people trying to send zero fee transactions without understanding the priority score of the transaction. I recommend users to calculate their score BEFORE they click send. Cos if it is well below the threshold, it is better to pay the small fee or mature the coins than worrying about them in limbo.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees

[DannyHamilton]

yup exactly this, if something gonna be wrong, the transaction just gonna be recalled to u.

You can't do anything, but wait. If it doesn't get confirmed after 72h it should be sent back to you.

These two people both lying to you.  I don't think they are doing it intentionally.  They are probably just misinformed and don't realize that they are spreading false information.  The only wallet I know of at the moment that returns the bitcoins to you is blockchain.info.  Since you have already stated that you are using Bitcoin-Qt, it is important to be aware that it will continue to re-broadcast the transaction until it receives a confirmation no matter how long it takes.  The transaction will not automatically be returned to you.

0-fee transactions usually take a long time (from a few hours to a few days) to get confirmed, but it will eventually be included in a block.

So, you need to be patient now

This is probably true, but not necessarily.  Although it is quite likely that the transaction will get confirmed eventually, there is no way to know if it will happen in the next few minutes, next few days, next few months, or next few years.  You are essentially waiting for some miner (or mining pool) to confirm your free transaction for you out of the charity in their heart.

[mprep]

If it doesn't get confirmed, whatever client you are using usually deletes the transaction after some time.

yup exactly this, if something gonna be wrong, the transaction just gonna be recalled to u.

You can't do anything, but wait. If it doesn't get confirmed after 72h it should be sent back to you.

These three people are all lying to you.  I don't think they are doing it intentionally.  They are probably just misinformed and don't realize that they are spreading false information.

0-fee transactions usually take a long time (from a few hours to a few days) to get confirmed, but it will eventually be included in a block.

So, you need to be patient now

This is probably true, but not necessarily.  Although it is quite likely that the transaction will get confirmed eventually, there is no way to know if it will happen in the next few minutes, next few days, next few months, or next few years.  You are essentially waiting for some miner (or mining pool) to confirm your free transaction for you out of the charity in their heart.

Sorry for the misinformation. Edited and fixed my post. Correct me if I'm wrong again.

[dotcom]

It has been over 24 hrs since I sent BTC  Transaction still unconfirmed. It was sent using QT wallet and 0 fees. Howl ong does it take? Can I resend it using fees. They are going to cancel my order  Please help

Longest conf I ever had took 2 days. That was an anomaly though, but still.

[roslinpl]

It has been over 24 hrs since I sent BTC  Transaction still unconfirmed. It was sent using QT wallet and 0 fees. Howl ong does it take? Can I resend it using fees. They are going to cancel my order  Please help

Longest conf I ever had took 2 days. That was an anomaly though, but still.

Two days ? man
Using fees helps a lot and it is cheap so I do not get it why people are sending BTC without fees...

[mprep]

It has been over 24 hrs since I sent BTC  Transaction still unconfirmed. It was sent using QT wallet and 0 fees. Howl ong does it take? Can I resend it using fees. They are going to cancel my order  Please help

Longest conf I ever had took 2 days. That was an anomaly though, but still.

Two days ? man
Using fees helps a lot and it is cheap so I do not get it why people are sending BTC without fees...

Sometimes people are very greedy, you know...