cyberpinoy (OP)
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December 15, 2014, 11:53:01 PM |
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Anyone else noticing transactions getting processed a lot slower than usual? I have been noticing it getting progressively worse over the past 2 weeks. Is this a problem because the last difficulty retarget actually decreased? what could be causing these long transaction confirmations? I mean seriously 3 hours not 1 confirmation, this is not right. And the source is a trusted source they send me coins all the time.
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December 16, 2014, 12:12:26 AM |
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I got a payment about ~5 hours ago, after instantly seeing the TX appear on the blockchain, it now has 27 confirmations, i just love transacting in bitcoin its so easy and fast.
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December 16, 2014, 12:54:32 AM |
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There could be couple reasons, for example too low transaction fee or bad luck
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cyberpinoy (OP)
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December 16, 2014, 12:59:19 AM |
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There could be couple reasons, for example too low transaction fee or bad luck I had to edit I think it may have been less than 3 hours, the time on Blockchain is not in the same zone as my wallet so Im not sure, my wallet is showing 3 hours blockchain is showing a little over an hour Oh luck again, everything is about luck in bitcoins, LUCK IS BULLSHIT. It seems the only thing certain in Bitcoin is there will always be theives, liars, scammers and hackers and just unethical people making more BTC than the ones trying to do this ethically and honestly.
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December 16, 2014, 01:00:50 AM |
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seems you didn't pay a fee and your sending address has unconfirmed tx in it aswell.
it'll probably confirm eventually, but don't hold your breath...
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cyberpinoy (OP)
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December 16, 2014, 01:02:51 AM |
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seems you didn't pay a fee and your sending address has unconfirmed tx in it aswell.
it'll probably confirm eventually, but don't hold your breath...
Ahh i did not see the unconfirmed incoming transaction thank you that explains it now. Thats why i am waiting I dont like to send coins if I have unconfirmed incoming transactions ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) I only see one incoming transaction it has 26 confirmations? you see another one that has not been confirmed? https://blockchain.info/tx/26950c5a316fd6be2e18bc47ebc898d2bf2ea154f954d0c2f9fe8d3370cae466even without that transaction the wallet still has over 3 BTC in there so it should be ok I would think.
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December 16, 2014, 01:24:53 AM |
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It is because the difficulty is decreasing while there has been a record number of transactions recently. This results in less supply of block space (as blocks are being found somewhat less often) and more demand for block space (higher transaction volume). This will result in the overall time to confirm transactions (measured in terms of number of blocks found since a TX was pushed to the network) to increase and the average TX fee required to get a transaction to confirm quickly to increase as well
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December 16, 2014, 01:37:39 AM |
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Don't rely too much on the 10 minute block time. Some times it can take more than 60 minutes for a block to be found.
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ticoti
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December 16, 2014, 03:03:08 AM |
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it is really desperating, I think this is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, I can't understand why I have to wait more than an hour (at least) to have my bitcoins ready to use
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December 16, 2014, 03:38:14 AM |
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Anyone else noticing transactions getting processed a lot slower than usual? I have been noticing it getting progressively worse over the past 2 weeks. Is this a problem because the last difficulty retarget actually decreased? what could be causing these long transaction confirmations? I mean seriously 3 hours not 1 confirmation, this is not right. And the source is a trusted source they send me coins all the time.
It is definitely slow the past few days. My transactions have not confirmed on mnay occasions for almost 40 minutes(the first 2 transactions). And its happening very often. Doesn't happen all day through but more towards a time in the evening EST.
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December 16, 2014, 03:44:48 AM |
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seems you didn't pay a fee and your sending address has unconfirmed tx in it aswell.
it'll probably confirm eventually, but don't hold your breath...
This might be the issue. I haven't made too many transaction in past week, only 2 actually with 20k Sat fee and they got confirmed very fast, with 1st confirm under 15 min.
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December 16, 2014, 08:02:30 AM |
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it is really desperating, I think this is a problem that needs to be solved urgently, I can't understand why I have to wait more than an hour (at least) to have my bitcoins ready to use
This is not an urgent problem as such. The network is very secure so that more and more merchants and exchanges will be taking 0 confirmation or 1 confirmation transactions.
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December 16, 2014, 08:18:16 AM |
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Last block was confirmed 59 minutes ago. Is this related to OPs observation?
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December 16, 2014, 08:56:50 AM Last edit: December 16, 2014, 09:10:25 AM by ujka |
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Last block was confirmed 59 minutes ago. Is this related to OPs observation?
Probably. There were some big 'lags' like this in past days. Bad luck... 334486 (Main Chain) 2014-12-15 22:03:07 334487 (Main Chain) 2014-12-15 23:44:08 . 334489 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 00:03:50 334490 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 00:55:50 And there is the fact that OP is using a less then recommended fee (0.00001 btc), and a nonconfirmed input in his tx...
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December 16, 2014, 01:25:47 PM |
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Looks to me like in your case, it was due to the fees issue where instead of the standard 10000 satoshi, it was only 1000. I did try once sending without a fee for a very small transaction and it got through eventually and that was almost like after half a day.
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December 16, 2014, 01:29:03 PM |
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I haven't had any problems at all. Is this just everyday normal transactions, is it from a certain website/faucet or anything like that. My guess its not the blockchain that is being slow, its either the website processing the payment slow or something along those lines.
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December 16, 2014, 01:47:58 PM |
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I've also had very slow transactions today. And it turned out that's something wrong at Poloniex, they actually announced that. https://twitter.com/Poloniex/status/544821638928138241So if your transaction was to or from Polo, now you know why.
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December 16, 2014, 06:00:18 PM |
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334586 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 17:19:42 4 mins 334585 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 17:15:52 8 mins 334584 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 17:08:16 8 mins 334583 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 17:00:36 8 mins 334582 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 16:36:50 24 mins 334581 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 16:25:43 11 mins 334580 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 16:19:10 6 mins 334579 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 15:37:01 48 mins 334578 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 15:17:36 20 mins 334577 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 15:08:42 9 mins 334576 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 15:06:07 6 mins 334575 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 15:00:23 minus 2 mins 334574 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 15:02:15 3 mins 334573 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:59:00 5 mins 334572 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:54:42 5 mins 334571 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:49:27 7 mins 334570 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:42:31 2 mins 334569 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:40:14 33 mins 334568 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:07:08 2 mins 334567 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 14:05:25 7 mins 334566 (Main Chain) 2014-12-16 13:58:46
15 green = no celebration of quicker than average confirms 5 slower = crying from people that dont realise the 10 minutes is NOT a rule, but a average based on maths spanning over 2 weeks and then divided down maths based on those 20 tx's is 10 and a half minutes-ish
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