Bitcoin transaction pending for 5+ days

[BitMaxz]

I just checked that on PC and I confirm that their paid service is not working.
I submitted several transaction IDs with the fee rates ranging from 8 sat/vbyte to 15 sat/vbyte to their paid service and got error for all of them. It only displays a message at top of the screen saying "Error" without any explanation on what causing the error.

It appears that this paid service was simply added as a design feature or it might be temporarily disabled due to some reason.

I can't find any announcement on Viabtc about this there might be a reason why it does not work.

Do you have any balance or deposit coins in Viabtc?

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[stompix]

It appears that this paid service was simply added as a design feature or it might be temporarily disabled due to some reason.

The paid accelerator was around for years and it worked, it was just something temporary yesterday.

So the fees are :
6b06bb5d532f22ffc49f9f59c41ad3b1397509477e68ea13859543a726fa2a6f
0.0021584 BTC ≈ 55.80
eb5ca532d2dc1468e2fe632558481ad09a749c724fab7f9ddca0a236b2a2fc9e
0.003192 BTC ≈ 82.52

So around my estimates, it will cost him ~$140 to get those ~$1000, plus, let's not forget the fees to pay for the fee increase, it would be incredibly funny to pay or the paid accelerator but with a small fee that doesn't confirm.

I see mempool claiming a 7.44 sat/vB purge for 300MB nodes so maybe it will get dropped sooner, at the same time, it's the start of the weekend and the mempool might get down a bit.

[nc50lc]

@decades85
Better keep a copy of your transactions just in case you lost contact to the sender and the transactions got dropped from mempools.
Getting those dropped completely is bad news since you're not the sender and you're using Coinbase..

Here are your "RAW Transactions" that can be broadcasted to nodes in case that happened:

Code:

01000000000101a0b7f3acd8a31879965a5345cf83ce419bcd6398efc67d78f0916c87ef77661d0100000000ffffffff02405a0b000000000017a9147c869fe76f4e14434760ca1ca80f772e7c58e589878eb90000000000001600145ef5a9f5ceedb69e9e35848bcb49d0cf599dd8c9024830450221008bb30c4b8c04d787403b0d37199985e9eba59ede6b256d7ca0acda8d1faa219c02204bb694943ea623750b4b5bb0046c44e40a0c4df32b58aab83eefeb0f661d05070121033d22ec1a852d04304d68d5243e6fdc20185c048b0831faf7cd686829dd7ad9c500000000

Code:

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

[decades85]

Thank you all for that, you are very kind. Will wait that it gets reversed in 14 days, 48 hours for now. If not, will request that the buyer pays again and I will send back his first 2 transactions in case they get confirmed later, which I seriously doubt.

Best regards and have a nice week.

[joniboini]

If not, will request that the buyer pays again and I will send back his first 2 transactions in case they get confirmed later, which I seriously doubt.

From what I've read so far it seems like you are not using a payment processor to process your deal (CMIIW). I suggest you look for an open source payment processor so you don't have to manually check the confirmation and the buyer would likely get incentivized to pay a reasonable fee since their deal won't get processed if they failed to send a confirmed transaction within a time frame. You should spend some time browsing this forum with keyword like "payment processor", you'll definitely learn a lot and knows what to avoid as a seller. Good luck.

[decades85]

Normally, I use escrow for domains valued at XXXX USD - usually at Dan.com since they also pay by BTC. Some small sales I do without escrow and have never experienced such a cheap fee to be honest. Hopefully both transactions gets reversed after 14 days pending tomorrow.

[decades85]

Transaction is still pending after 14 days.

[hosseinimr93]

Transaction is still pending after 14 days.

One of the transactions was broadcasted 14 days ago and the other one was broadcasted 13 days and 20 hours ago.

Some nodes have already dropped the transaction that was broadcasted 14 days ago from their mempool and they will drop the other transaction in the next hours.
Gradually, more and more nodes will drop your transactions from their mempool.

Take note that the 14 days is the default setting and nodes are free to change that. Therefore, it's possible that those transactions are shown by some block explorers for more days.
There will be probably some block explorers that will still show those transactions even after a month, unless a new transaction invalidates them.

[decades85]

Thank you for clearifing,

BR

[philipma1957]

these still seem stuck have you been able to contact the buyer  has your problem been fixed in a different manner.  Please let us know what is happening as I do not understand why they passed the 2 week limit.

[decades85]

Some nodes still have the transaction in system, some dont, like I was just checking viabtc the other time just for fun, after the 14 days passed and they couldnt find the transaction. Like it was mentioned it could be like this several days after the 2 weeks mark. Ive also notified the buyer, if not dropped till Wednesday, I would like to have my domains back.

[hosseinimr93]

I think the transactions have been rebroadcasted several times and that have caused many nodes to still have them in their mempool.

Blockchair.com received one of the transactions on September 4 and the other one on September 6.
Trezor explorer received the transactions 3 days ago. Viawallet explorer received them 2 days ago and bitcoinblockexplorers received them just a few hours ago.

[decades85]

Thank you, so if someone broadcast the transactions, this could be pending forever?

[hosseinimr93]

Thank you, so if someone broadcast the transactions, this could be pending forever?

The transaction will remain unconfirmed and nodes will have it in their mempool until the network becomes less congested, so that its fee rate is enough and it gets confirmed.
 
It's also possible that nodes drop the transaction due to their mempool reaching its maximum size.
If a node reaches its maximum size, it would remove transactions with low fee rate, so there's room for transactions with higher fee rates. The default mempool size is 300 MB.

The other possibility is that the sender makes a new transaction with the same input(s) and invalidates the unconfirmed transaction.

[khaled0111]

Thank you, so if someone broadcast the transactions, this could be pending forever?

Yes, this is what will happen. Every time someone rebroadcast the transaction to the network, nodes will include it in their mempool, again.
As far as I know, nodes don't keep track of the transactions that they drop from their mempool. So, there is no way for them to know if the transaction is being rebroadcast or it's a new one.

[decades85]

Thank you, will wait till Wednesday and than get my domains back, there was also a mediation from Namepros, since buyer said he paid. He was sounding like I did something wrong. Perhaps a young person, couldnt judge, but will probably get my domains back.

[decades85]

Just to let everyone know, the buyer disappeared, or at least he is not responding to me or moderators on Namepros, they just moved the case to the fraud department, but I engaged my account manager at Dynadot, since I have over 1200 domains with them. I reported them as stolen.

[khaled0111]

Unfortunately there is nothing you can do to accelerate this transaction since you don't control any of the recopient address or the sending address. Also, you can't verify you are the receipient!
All you can do is to file a complaint to the service provider. They are the only one who can verify you are the address owner and you are expecting to receive x money from the domain buyer.

[decades85]

The 2 transactions just confirmed earlier today. Thank you all for the support provided.

[NotATether]

The 2 transactions just confirmed earlier today. Thank you all for the support provided.

Everything above 6 sats/vbyte transaction fee has been cleared from the mempool, which is significant because there were several megabytes of transactions which had been held up all these days that got confirmed now.

Granted, there are still a ton of transactions with lower fees waiting to be mined, but the miners will get there in time, eventually.