Cheers!
ill try again in an hour!
just to clarify... it is just the fee that isn't high enough, nothing to do with Electrum wallet?
Will update if anything changes
Thanks again,
It's just the fee that isn't high enough, nothing to do with Electrum.
The site linked below will tell you the best fee to pay. It checks how many unconfirmed transactions there are and works it out for you.
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/This is what it recommends at present.
The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 200 satoshis/byte, shown in green at the top.
For the median transaction size of 226 bytes, this results in a fee of 45,200 satoshis.
Please note that many wallets use satoshis-per-kilobyte or bitcoins-per-kilobyte, so you may need to convert units. See our instructions for more details.
In the electrum preferences you can decide what fees to pay.
If you check the Dynamic fees check box electrum guesses the best fee to pay, and you can adjust a slider depending on how fast you want your transaction confirmed.
If you don't check that check box you can decide what fee to pay yourself by checking the "set transaction fees manually" check box, and putting a fee per KB figure in the text box next to where it says "transaction fee per kb".
There are other things you can do in some situations. The electrum documentation explains them.
http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/faq.html#my-transaction-has-been-unconfirmed-for-a-long-time-what-can-i-doMy transaction has been unconfirmed for a long time. What can I do?
Wait for a long time. Eventually, your transaction will either be confirmed or cancelled. This might take several days.
Increase the transaction fee. This is only possible for ‘replaceable’ transactions. To create this type of transaction, you must have enabled ‘Replace by Fee’ in your preferences, before sending the transaction.
Create a ‘child pays for parent’ transaction, with a generous fee. A CPFP is a new transaction, that compensates for the small fee of the parent transaction. It can be done by the recipient of the funds, or by the sender, if the transaction has a change output.
noteThe preferences window shown is from an older version of electrum, newer versions have a different layout.
