Whats the longest you have waited for one confirmation??

[doctor877]

I have waited for 48hrs, that's been a while when there was a huge confirmation issues. That's when I researched and saw that you could accelerate a Bitcoin transaction using viabtc especially if your transaction fee is small.

[cryptoboss2020]

7 years 

[Vishnu.Reang]

I have waited for 48hrs, that's been a while when there was a huge confirmation issues. That's when I researched and saw that you could accelerate a Bitcoin transaction using viabtc especially if your transaction fee is small.

Yeah... there are transaction accelerators, and obviously Viabtc is perhaps the most popular one. But I have a feeling that their fee is a bit on the higher side. I used their service only once, and I had to make a payment of around $30. I was quite desperate, as one of my urgent payments was stuck due to low fees. At the same time, other users were paying $5 as the transaction fee in Blockchain and getting instant confirmation. So they are charging manytimes the actual fee. But in the end, we have few other options.

[hahay]

I don't know how long I waited at that time, at least 2-3 days forgot the exact time, it was just an experience in the past because there was a problem something like the transaction was stuck. But as far as I remember I didn't do any additional fees for the transaction finally confirmed, at least I just made a new transaction to solve the problem because I was annoyed with a long wait, after that incident I no longer have the same problem until now.

[Mulann2]

Just few days ago I waited for more than 1 hour for my transaction to go through, what is even surprising is that I use a high gas fee - about $2+ eth for transaction fee so my transaction will be confirmed quickly but unfortunately for me my network went off in the middle of processing, I don't know if this has something to do with the transaction delay but it just took longer than necessary to confirm.

[Yusidoang]

Currently I have waited 3 hour

I've waited nearly a day when I sent without a reasonable fee (or when someone sent to me without a fee).

Just waiting for 3 hours makes us uncertain, especially waiting for 1 week. because waiting is not good and is very hated by people☺

[kano]

The wait is simply due to 2 things, one of which is your own choice:

1) Your fee you put into your transactions.

2) How full the mempool is.

When there are lots of transactions (i.e. mempool is always more than a block) then if you skimp on fees, it may take you a long time to get your transaction confirmed.

If you watch the size of blocks, you will see that it has periods of very full and periods of not completely full.
If you put up a transaction when blocks are not completely full, then you are more likely to have it confirmed faster.
If you put up a transaction with low fees when the blocks are always full, then expect to wait.

FYI average block time is 10 minutes - not sure why anyone would bother getting a list of block times over history.
However, the timestamp in a block is NOT when the block was found, it is usually when the work was sent to the miner that found the block some time after that timestamp (usually within 30 seconds) ... but not always.

[ipanda]

Been waiting for weeks for a small 0.0013 transaction.. Not sure if it will ever be confirmed..

weeks
sounds weird sir. My longest ever was around 3.5 days.
the price of bitcoin is crazy, but im not going to believe it is gonna be a kind of payments, kind of saving like gold is more practical

[pakhitheboss]

The max I have waited was for 5 days for an amount of 0.0021 satoshi. Since nowadays there have been too many issues popping up related to Bitcoin confirmation. I would just like to advise that wait till the weekend if your transaction does not confirm on weekdays.

For me, there have been 2 or 3 confirmation issues since November this year and now I only do transfers on weekends because they get confirmed easily at a cheap price in satoshi.

[fishbonez11]

So far, I've waited 4 days for my transaction to get confirmed. Someone sent me that with terribly low transaction fee. I feel like I gonna miss the all time high before I receive the amount. Luckily, the high price last longer than I expected. During high periods, its really hard to make transaction. But still efficient and better than anyway of transaction. Worth it since its Cheaper than banks transaction fee.

[mich]

Currently I have waited 3 hour

The worst longest time I have waited for 1 confirmation was when I sent from my wallet to a exchange and it took more then 2 weeks to confirm.
I was so nervous and used different btc accelerators and contacted the exchange support.  I learned my lesson after this incident.

[dunfida]

Currently I have waited 3 hour

The worst longest time I have waited for 1 confirmation was when I sent from my wallet to a exchange and it took more then 2 weeks to confirm.
I was so nervous and used different btc accelerators and contacted the exchange support.  I learned my lesson after this incident.

Im a kind of person who doesnt really want to wait thats why i do check out mempool.space and when i do saw what are the current fees on specific prioritization then im basing
on the fee that im using but those are subject to change which we know that network could clogged even more which would result into further expensive fees.

As for the question on whats the longest time that ive been waiting for some transaction then it do took 1-2 days. Getting broadcasted into the network and waiting
for 1 confirmation is really a stressful one. 

[theskillzdatklls]

I seem to have a lot of confirmations that take almost a week or more some times. I used to say "I don't care how long it takes, I'll just do the cheap route and wait the 2-24 hours or whatever" but now waiting means weeks. I hope something is done about this personally.