24 hours without confirmations

Sorry reposting from throwaway. My bad.

So before you flair this r/bitcoin, I posted there too about 12 hours ago and got no reply.

I grabbed some BTC from LBC yesterday. Moved it, with no problems, to my electrum wallet. Made a deposit to my AB wallet (fee included, automatically calculated by electrum). A few hours later, before bed, it still hadn't gone through. So I went to bed. Woke up, same story. Here I am over 24 hours later. I didn't get phished. The link came from the superlist. But even more, the coins haven't actually moved. Zero confirmations. It's just sitting there.

Has anybody ever seen anything like this at all? Is there anything you can suggest? I DID NOT have dynamic fees enabled in electrum. Is this just a super busy time and they'll get to it when they get to it kind of a situation? I've just never had something take over 24 hours like this.

Thanks for any help.


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[1 Points] None:

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[1 Points] samwhiskey:

Look---------------->

There is a thing called a "search bar"

This question is asked about 4 times a day


[1 Points] Thoughtsofamaniac:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/search?q=deposit&sort=new&restrict_sr=on

Many of those posts, most actually, regard the very thing you're asking about.

But, since I'm a healer, I'll go ahead and help you while also condescending slightly to you.

Your issue comes from using the default fee calculated by Electrum. The BTC Blockchain has been backed up with thousands of transactions for several weeks now, and they just keep piling up. There are some other factors at work here which is causing a fork in the process, but the point you need to remember, is that this is causing a lot of issues with slow confirmations for any btc transaction.

You must not have searched too hard. A lot of these cases reporting this are actually EXACTLY like your post. "Hey guys, made a deposit 24< hours ago, STILL not there, AB exit scam y/n?" Some of them have taken as long as 72 hours.

By default, Electrum and most other BTC wallets use the minimum fee necessary, calculated at the time of transaction. You have to either use a wallet that allows you manually set the fee, or configure Electrum for something called CPFP, Child-Pays-For-Parent, which will allow you to push previously low fee transactions through by sending through a new transaction from the same wallet with a higher fee.

What you want to do is add some incentive for miners to process your btc transaction block. Instead of the default fees like .000001 or whatever, try setting a high one at .001-.005. Yeah, it's a couple bucks $, but it will push your transaction through so much faster you'll think it's magic.


[1 Points] wombat2combat:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarketsNoobs/wiki/bible/buyer/bitcoin/unconfirmedtransactions