My Ethereum transaction has been pending for over a month

[UnitedNot]

I tried to send an Ethereum transaction using https://www.myetherwallet.com/ over 40 days ago. I used a very low fee and seems it was not nearly enough. The transaction is now stuck and says pending. It doesnt look like it will be dropped and I am not sure what to do.

I tried to speed it up by adding more gas through Metamask but every time I do that I get an error in MEW and it fails. I read somewhere that I need to spend the same nonce with more gas for the transaction to be confirmed. I have no idea how to do that. Can someone help?

Has anyone faced similar issues wit stuck Eth transactions that couldnt be spent and how do I solve this? 
What is going on with the fees and why is an ETH transaction more expensive than a Bitcoin transaction?

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[UserU]

I tried to send an Ethereum transaction using https://www.myetherwallet.com/ over 40 days ago. I used a very low fee and seems it was not nearly enough. The transaction is now stuck and says pending. It doesnt look like it will be dropped and I am not sure what to do.

I tried to speed it up by adding more gas through Metamask but every time I do that I get an error in MEW and it fails. I read somewhere that I need to spend the same nonce with more gas for the transaction to be confirmed. I have no idea how to do that. Can someone help?

Has anyone faced similar issues wit stuck Eth transactions that couldnt be spent and how do I solve this? 
What is going on with the fees and why is an ETH transaction more expensive than a Bitcoin transaction?

I've read somewhere that you could re-submit your transactions at a higher fee via Metamask's Speed Up. Do you have the extension installed?

[jademaxsuy]

Try these steps:

Canceling a Transaction
Canceling means generating a 0 ETH transaction to your own address with the purpose of preventing a previous transaction from “going through” / “being mined” / “being included in the blockchain” / “being stuck”.

Step 1. Head to Etherscan.io or Ethplorer.io.

Step 2. Paste your transaction hash.

If it says pending, you can still try to cancel it.
If it says not found, click the button again, waiting a few minutes between each click. If that doesn’t work, it’s likely your transaction never went through.
If it says success, you cannot try to cancel it.
Step 3. If it says pending, access the wallet you used to send the original transaction on MEW.

Step 4. Send a transaction to yourself with a balance of 0 ETH.

Step 5. Click the ‘Send Transaction’ button.

Step 6. A dialog will appear. Click the “Yes, I’m Sure” button to send.

Step 7. A new transaction hash will appear. Click the link to view it and see if you were successful. If it doesn’t show up immediately, try refreshing in a few minutes.

more details here in this site about cancellation or replacement of pending transaction.

https://kb.myetherwallet.com/en/transactions/checking-or-replacing-a-tx-after-sending/

[minairia3]

This user have the same experience and I think you should view how he did solve the issue. Check the link.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5184484.msg52451444#msg52451444

Its weird there are lots of new topic regarding transaction stuck. It looks like the eth network has clogged that worse.  I would like to suggest to everyone to always check the transaction fee via eth gas station or avoid transferring of funds through the use of eth network for a while or unnecessary transactions. Gas fee now are really crazy high.

[boyptc]

I advise you to follow the link above^ how masulum solved his case.

Ethereum transactions these days are congested so if you pay for a very low fee, don't expect it to be confirmed quickly. The next time you send ETH, pay the average fee or more than a bit of that.

[OcTradism]

What is Gwei you used for your transaction? If you move it month ago I think you moved it with fee less than 20 Gwei or maybe below 10 Gwei. Because you said yours is very low. 21 Gwei was the average during the days.

The average fee now is 147 Gwei. https://ethgasstation.info/calculatorTxV.php

[webtricks]

I tried to send an Ethereum transaction using https://www.myetherwallet.com/ over 40 days ago. I used a very low fee and seems it was not nearly enough. The transaction is now stuck and says pending. It doesnt look like it will be dropped and I am not sure what to do.

I tried to speed it up by adding more gas through Metamask but every time I do that I get an error in MEW and it fails. I read somewhere that I need to spend the same nonce with more gas for the transaction to be confirmed. I have no idea how to do that. Can someone help?

Has anyone faced similar issues wit stuck Eth transactions that couldnt be spent and how do I solve this? 

MyEtherWallet automatically detects if there's pending transaction. So all you need to do is create a new transaction to same address of same amount but with higher fees. If you are doing now, add 135-140 Gwei as fees. Then MEW with broadcast new transaction with same nonce to the network and it will be accepted in block shortly. Once it is accepted in block, your previous transaction will be marked 'Cancelled and Replaced'.

If you have done any transaction after the pending transaction, it will be either pending or dropped. If it is pending, it will be confirmed after your pending transaction is confirmed provided you have added enough fees in that transaction.

What is going on with the fees and why is an ETH transaction more expensive than a Bitcoin transaction?

DeFi effect! Due to the new trend of DeFi, smart contracts are being readily created on Ethereum network which is slowing down blockchain and you have to pay higher fees. Same happened when dApps initially became hot, CryptoKitties days!

[Kupid002]

Ill never experience something like that using imtoken wallet they will give suggested fee every time I want to transfer any eth or tokens. I think the problem of your transaction is the fees you use for transferring it to other address . Many suggestions is given above already but I want to suggest to use im token next time if you don't want to experience the same problem in the future.

[mersal]

Ill never experience something like that using imtoken wallet they will give suggested fee every time I want to transfer any eth or tokens. I think the problem of your transaction is the fees you use for transferring it to other address . Many suggestions is given above already but I want to suggest to use im token next time if you don't want to experience the same problem in the future.

IM token also has its pros and cons but for someone like OP who doesn't know how to set the right gas fee then it is good to go for the wallet which is having suggested fee feature while making every transaction.And also IMtoken received every tokens without manually adding them like in MEW that is an extra feature people will get.

[50 Cent]

What happened eth?
My transaction pending too.
transactions that I have done for more than one week,
but until now it has not been executed.
oh no, is this an upgrade for the better?
even the gas had penetrated 130 gwei.
someone please explain to me.

[MonsterV]

Everytime you doing any transfer on ethereum transactions, please look at the gas price first before you send your ether to avoid its pending for a long time or use mobile wallet like trust wallet or ImToken that could help you calculate how much fees you need for transactions to avoid the transactions getting stuck.

the only solutions for you now is reversed your current transactions by doing new ethereum transfer to any wallet with 0 value and input same nonce as your stuck transactions nonce, dont forget to use current gas price to make it faster, then your stuck ETH will be reversed and you can transfer it again with high price.

What happened eth?
My transaction pending too.
transactions that I have done for more than one week,
but until now it has not been executed.
oh no, is this an upgrade for the better?
even the gas had penetrated 130 gwei.
someone please explain to me.

i think its might happend if your gwei is high but your gas is to low its could cause your transactions getting stucked to.

[Sanugarid]

What happened eth?
My transaction pending too.
transactions that I have done for more than one week,
but until now it has not been executed.
oh no, is this an upgrade for the better?

I don't know what's happening with ethereum now, it seems like many transaction are stuck, unconfirmed and dropped. I haven't experience any of this, even I just transfer an ETH just 3 days ago it instantly confirms in the network. As what did @Webtricks has mentioned, you need to do a same transaction but with higher fees, I haven't done it yet so I'm not sure but it is logical for the pending transaction to be replaced once there is a duplicate transaction, eth network will easily detect those. The only downside is this will going to generate more fees than your past transaction so you can be sure that it'll send right away.

even the gas had penetrated 130 gwei.
someone please explain to me.

As far as I know the 130 gwei is a high fee, it should send instantly at least within 2 minutes, then 100 for standard time up to 5 minutes and the slowest at 90gwei. If it is in 130, then try to make it 140 gwei this time or 150 if you please to.

[sheenshane]

I think just follow as posted above (@webtricks), as I know, the miners will pick the new transaction if you are in safe low fees before your stuck transaction and it should be marked as a rejected, high fee always varries. Just refer to this link,( https://ethgasstation.info/ ) to know which gas fee is safe before having the transaction to avoid getting stuck.

I always choose the recommend fees to avoid getting stuck, if you are in a hurry it is worth it to pay a high gas fee than you will wait longer time. There are too many factors Eth network becomes congested at this time, the high fee doesn't get hurt if you will choose this for the fastest transaction. If Bitcoin has an unconfirmed site of mempool, Ethereum has also had, you can check before having transactions. https://etherscan.io/txsPending.

[Icologies]

this usually happens because Gwei or fee ethereum  have increased maybe at that time you installed a small amount of Gwei then the pending transaction and takes so long the solution to this problem is simply to wait until Gwei ethereum drops back down

[fosco333]

I thought you are the same person who has a stuck 11 ETH transaction, he is the receiver though.
Have you tried to contact myetherwallet support to as how to replace your transaction with higher gas ?
Maybe the reason you failed when using metamask to replace the gas is because you used mew(myetherwallet) on your stuck transaction before, so it will need to using mew when replacing the gas as well.

[S4VV4S]

I advise you to follow the link above^ how masulum solved his case.

Ethereum transactions these days are congested so if you pay for a very low fee, don't expect it to be confirmed quickly. The next time you send ETH, pay the average fee or more than a bit of that.

That's right, yesterday I sent a little ETH with 50 gwei gas, and the status is pending, then I increased it to 75 gwei, it's still pending. But after I added gas to 120 gwei and my transaction was confirmed successfully. The Ethereum network currently requires more gas if you want your transactions to be successful, at least you have to set 100 gwei.

[riso2015]

What happened eth?
My transaction pending too.
transactions that I have done for more than one week,
but until now it has not been executed.
oh no, is this an upgrade for the better?
even the gas had penetrated 130 gwei.
someone please explain to me.

Maybe you need to set mining fee to 0.0025 ether, or around $ 1. Yesterday I sent from ImToken wallet and I set the mining fee to "fast" In less than 5 minutes, my transaction was successful.

[Bitbtc8]

I've seen this happened twice on my side, the transaction will later get rejected but if you want solution you should deposit fresh eth into your ethereum wallet address and leave it there, the network will take some eth to the transaction approved

[bxipp]

I've seen this happened twice on my side, the transaction will later get rejected but if you want solution you should deposit fresh eth into your ethereum wallet address and leave it there, the network will take some eth to the transaction approved

It will not get rejected but will be in pending mode for a very long time.. He said its already has being stuck for a month now and yeah do not expect anything when you use a cheap gas for your transfer as now the traffic are high and that made gas for transaction are very high while the cheap one will get stuck for a long time. Try to cancelled your transaction i think there was a lot of tutorials out there on youtube to do that.

[lepbagong]

I've seen this happened twice on my side, the transaction will later get rejected but if you want solution you should deposit fresh eth into your ethereum wallet address and leave it there, the network will take some eth to the transaction approved

It will not get rejected but will be in pending mode for a very long time.. He said its already has being stuck for a month now and yeah do not expect anything when you use a cheap gas for your transfer as now the traffic are high and that made gas for transaction are very high while the cheap one will get stuck for a long time. Try to cancelled your transaction i think there was a lot of tutorials out there on youtube to do that.

Actually, the main problem that occurs is because our desire to pay a small fee but behind it results in things that we cannot avoid that there will be a long pending because there are quite a lot of transaction queues and usually they don't see the beginning of the transaction but how much you give the fee for the transaction.

the effort is not to give a small fee, but if the one who does is the exchanger we cannot avoid it and please be patient. try is to use an exchanger who charges a reasonable fee because of course it's for our good so that we don't wait too long.