Whats the longest you have waited for one confirmation??

[allthingsluxury]

I've seen well in excess of 3 hours.

[feryjhie]

my longest wait for just one confirmation is around 2 hours

[JamesBlack72]

I think it was about 4-5 hours. It was a purchase in a bricks-and-mortar shop.

[console]

3 days and counting...
someone sent to me as payment, *shrug* will ever get it ?

https://blockchain.info/tx/7d74d95c34b3650c3c18088dccdff4ddb8d557cc4f9f884eb9981e146eaf301a

[Kronos21]

I have the same problem. I'm waiting for confirmation of payment 2 days. I don't know how to send the payment but when I send my payments are never delayed more than 30 minutes. I think that it also depends on the network load but also by the way sent. I hope that someday this problem will be solved.

[maxfromeu]

I'm waiting for 12 hours!

https://btc.com/d2302b30b6099920b1c612e3dcfd85b4ce05b9d63129e46ad3c09eb74c0ccdb8

Any idea?

[Pan Troglodytes]

I have the same problem. I'm waiting for confirmation of payment 2 days. I don't know how to send the payment but when I send my payments are never delayed more than 30 minutes. I think that it also depends on the network load but also by the way sent. I hope that someday this problem will be solved.

I hope so too.

For me it has been one week and a half and still counting. I tried to have a look at BTC transaction accelerator and their quote was 102 USD which is repelling (!). The network load currently is 220k so probably my tx will not be confirmed in another week or two ...

Actually I am starting to feel helpless and I am starting to understand the BTH guys

[ogini]

currently i have waited for 2hrs for confirmation of a transaction i did but it has not yet came.

[Pan Troglodytes]

I am not sure anybody can bit me. It was more than two weeks. Finally I executed a "child pays for parent" transaction that covered the cost of the new transaction and paid additional fee on behalf of the parent, to have the original (parent) confirmed sooner. It costed me 40 USD total, but it was worth it, the confirmation finally arrived after a block or two...

[AicecreaME]

I guess it was 12 hours if I remember it correctly. I was panicking way back then because I thought I did something wrong like I sent it to a wrong address like a not Bitcoin address because I hassle sometimes. But luckily after I woke the next morning, I already received it in my Bitcoin wallet.

Here are some reasons why your transaction gets delayed

[Sithara007]

A few months back, I had to wait for 3 days to get a single confirmation. I was using the Blockchain.com wallet and I put the default fee which was suggested by them. But as soon as I made the transaction, the Mempool size started increasing. The transaction got stuck, and I was left frustrated and angry. I felt bad, because I had put the default fee rather than my own customized fee. Anyway, in the end it got confirmed after three days of wait.

[xSkylarx]

I think 5 or 6 hrs from my experience. The USD equivalent of fee that time is very high but I really need to withdraw so I set the fee to lowest. I thought it won't be longer than 2hrs since I've been doing it before but the blockchain that time has a huge number of transactions ongoing.

[Zemomtum]

I have waited for over 24hrs in the year 2017 during the high cost of transactions and I am sending just a peanut 0.0015, it just remains unconfirmed and I forget about it until it was later sent. Two things here, mono transaction and a low fee.

[bryant.coleman]

I don't remember exactly, but I believe that my longest wait lasted a week or so. This happened sometime in 2017, when I was moving coins from one of my wallets to another. Since I control both the wallets, I put a very low transaction fee (around 2 Sat/Byte). But the transaction took a long time to get confirmed and eventually I had to wait for around 6-7 days.

[Stedsm]

IIRC I sent a transaction with 0 fee when such were getting confirmed.

What happened exactly?
Till I sent it, everything was working fine. Suddenly, mempool started to clog and there came an extreme tsunami of transactions which blocked the network till 10 sats/byte area. Then it took itself above to over 50 sats/ byte area and then kept sitting there for a 3 days. I just waited for it to confirm and it confirmed in 5-6 days to be exact. It didn't even get rejected or reversed as the value was so less so it didn't bother much to me. But you should have RBF enabled in your transaction as well as have some change available if your fee level gets under the normal level for getting faster confirmations.

[rendravolt]

Currently I have waited 3 hour

What coins are you waiting for confirmation, which can be up to 3 hours? According to my experience, it usually takes about 1 to 2 hours at the most for bitcoin transactions, while for Ethereum a maximum of 30 minutes, but that depends on the gas fee used. However, if the transaction is busy on the block it will take up to several days.

[Alucard1]

I've waited for weeks but nothing happens and I just realized that I just got scammed for a fake investment website lol. The longest confirmed confirmation that I have is just only a half hour when I deposit a small amount of bitcoin in the yobit platform.

I just want to know what confirmation have you experienced that took for 3 hours? I just curious about it so I could prevent having this in the future.

[coolcoinz]

The longest was 3 or 4 days back in 2018 when fees exploded. I send a decent fee, but the transaction was heavy, with many inputs, which decreased its priorities. A day later the average fee doubled and my transaction still wasn't confirmed. 2 days later I got worried and discovered a free tx accelerator provided by one of the pools. I had to try many times until my tx got accepted because there was so many requests, you literally had to click 1s after it opened for new requests to make it. Fun times  

[Searing]

Currently I have waited 3 hour

Probably 1-3 Hours like yourself

I found this searching around google, some people claim Satoshi waited 130 Hours after mining Genesis to the first Block, however this I beleive is untrue, its more likely he was fixing issues with the code during this time and it did not actually take him 130 hours.

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Here's a complete list of the differences between blocks, sorted by difference: http://paste.ubuntu.com/6780012/
And here's a BASH script used to get a list of blocks and a difference between their timestamps (requires jq):

Code:

#!/bin/bash

COUNT=$(bitcoind getblockcount)
PREVTIME=0

for (( i=0; i<=$COUNT; i++ ))
do
    HASH=$(bitcoind getblockhash $i)
    TIME=$(bitcoind getblock $HASH|jq ".time")

    if (( "$i" > 0 )); then
        echo "$(expr $i - 1)-$i     $(expr $TIME - $PREVTIME)"

        #progress display
        if (( $(($i % $(($COUNT / 100)))) == 0)); then
            echo "$i*100/$COUNT"|bc|tr '\n' '%' 1>&2
            echo "" 1>&2
        fi
    fi

    PREVTIME=$TIME
done

Run it like this: bash blocktime.sh|sort -n -k2. Takes a while to run (circa three hours on my system).

[vaultman]

A few weeks ago there was a large size of the memory pool, the day before that I sent a transaction with the optimal size of the transaction fee, and after sending all the values increased and my transaction ended up at the end of the list. Thus, the transaction was stuck in the transaction queue for several weeks, and then I don’t know what happened to it, since I didn’t check its status anymore, because I sent a new one with a higher fee.