It's now been 2 days since I made a transfer from my wallet and 0 confirmations!! Help?!?

ok so i know this isnt the first thread about this but this is getting really annoying now. i just added the recommended miners fee via my wallet which is around .000065 so now it's flagged as medium priority. obviously i wasnt aware of this shit show before depositing or i would have added a larger fee before anyone states the obvious on that one.

It says estimated confirmation in 6 blocks on blockchain, but it's been saying that since yesterday morning. Is there anything I can do here? Can I recall it and add more of a fee? Can i just cancel the transaction and return it to my wallet? Or am I basically fucked and my bitcoins are lost in the aether until all this bollocks finally settles down?


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[4 Points] sixtoo42:

I thought the standard miners fee is 0.0002/kb. Unless your transfer is really tiny, you either put one too many 0's in your post, or your fee is under the standard. Over the last few days, I have been adding a 0.0003 fee at minimum. Not per kb, 0.0003 total. I've waited no more than 30 minutes to get around 3 confirmations with that fee. And that's less than $0.10, definitely worth the time saved waiting to make an order. Especially when BTC has been fluctuating up to a couple dollars a day recently.


[2 Points] None:

Confirmations are extremely slow right now, the standard miners fee is not going to cut it right now. Not really a lot you can do about it now except wait.


[2 Points] The_fire_bird:

Do you have your transaction ID? The fee can be a funny thing. Some people have to pay a high fee and other pay a low fee even if the "amount" appears to be the same. Being able to look at the transaction would help.

But obviously if it's to a market's wallet address (which is a reasonable expectation for this sub) then you may feel a little uneasy sharing that.

I've had one in the past wait 60 hours and it was a priority "very high", but I set the fee too low, so all the miners were just leaving it for someone else.

For reference though, the recommended fee these days is at least 0.0001 (as in 3 zeroes after the decimal point).

And no, your bitcoins are not lost. They'll either go to your intended destination sooner or later. If they're really not moving, you will need to shut your bitcoin client and delete that transaction. This won't take the transaction out of the network, but will allow the network to forget about it after a few days. Most clients keep repushing the transaction to the network every 30 minutes or so (doing the exact opposite - making the sure the network doesn't forget about it)


[2 Points] GrandWizardsLair:

The Grand Wizard had several delayed transfers from Agora: one took almost 3,000 minutes (2 days and 2 hours) before being picked up by a node. We can't tell you the exact reason for this, although we've heard several different speculations. But it's not just happpening to you and the transaction will go through at some undetermined point in the future.


[2 Points] footlockervip:

You shoudl be upping your miners fees during this flood...

The fee you posted is not even a general minimum fee muchless a recommended fee for miners to catch during the flood the past few days.

But transactions seem to haev returned to normal for me.. I send a wallet to wallet with no tx fee and got 2 conf in lke 30 minutes.


[1 Points] None:

I think if after 72 hours there are still no confirmations it gets refunded


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

The blockchain forked on July 4th. You and the marketplace are using two different versions of the blockchain

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1108304.340

It doesnt help that you are probably checking using blockchain.info, which is on the wrong blockchain. You may even use one of their online "wallets" if you have an iphone instead of a proper android.

You will also read that the blockchain is being stress tested or spammed, but this has made bugger all difference. A few halfwits will say with authority "its Greece", and the usual geeks who dpnt buy drugs with it will blame "China" as usual.

If you want to use blockchain.info, look at the transaction volume (which has doubled), average block time (barely changed), and "orphaned blocks" (big spike). Then take all the "dude, increase your mining fee" posts that will appear with a pinch of salt.

If Satoshi was still alive, he would have emailed the bitcointalk forum and told everybody what to do. Thats not going to happen, so these problems will probably go on until blockchain.info's chief security officer, or some other leading bitcoin figure with a brain, takes a lead. And if blockchain.info itself switched to the correct one, becauae people treat it like it IS the bloclchain.

Every one of the Bitcoin problem threads that are going to appear can be answered by writing "bitcoin is completely forked"


[1 Points] throwawaywayfoehoo:

I would be careful with my OPSEC regarding all of this. TIN FOIL HAT WARNING - Who else would have the amount of BTC it would take to flood Ag like this but LE with a mountain of seized BTC? Then they kick back and wait for people to complain about deposits on the clearnet and pick them off.


[0 Points] None:

Ooph, two days? And to think I was getting worried when my deposit wasn't showing up on Agora in 15 minutes. Am recommending what others already have; increase the fee for higher priority in the Blockchain network.