Topic: All about "stuck" transactions and what you can do to fix them - page 3. (Read 143772 times)

Hi ohmanpleasehelp

I used the free service and waited about a day and no confirmation so I approached confirmtx this morning asking if I could pay $4 each transaction to quicken up the confirmation process, He/she replied quickly and said I could and gave me a bitcoin address. I've sent the payment through and was told it will be confirmed in 1-2hours. Its almost been 2 hours now and still no confirmation so not really sure it even worked 

hey mason.... did confirmtx work for you? I've had the nice people on this board try to accelerate my transaction, but nothing has happened yet. So I was thinking about trying the site... any luck?

Hi guys Ive sent 3 payments with low fees 1 sat/B each using bitcoin core. It's almost been 48hrs and still not confirmed. I've submitted them to confirmtx.com about 10hrs ago and still nothing. What are my options? Can I somehow increase the fees for the transactions? I mean will it eventually get confirmed or it will be in the mempool indefinitely?

Thanks for any help

ViaBTC won't accept it because the fee is below 10 sats/byte... and you transaction is over 400 bytes, so ConfirmTX.com want $4 to accelerate it.

So, I've gone ahead and pushed this for you via AntPool... hopefully they will mine a block shortly and it'll get included

Thank you for this explanation will benefit many members

Many thanks for this tutorial! It's very useful.

I've made a mistake and sent a transaction with low fees, and it's stuck for more than 48 hours in the mempool with 0 confirmation.

So I've started my bitcoin-qt (version 0.15.0.1) with option '-zapwallettxes', and it cleared my unconfirmed transaction from my wallet.

Then I've sent the same amount to the same address but with a higher fee (dynamically calculated), the transaction appears on my bitcoin-qt client, but if I search for its transaction id on blockchain explorers, e.g. blockchain.info, it says that this transaction doesn't exists.

I've restarted again with '-zapwallettxes', resend the transaction, but it seems that the transaction is not inserted on the mempool/blockchain.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Thank you for taking the time to write this guide on how to unstick a transaction but it does highlight what a fiasco this currently is.

I've been having a headache today because I sent one transaction with low fees via Bread wallet.  It wasn't 0 fees, just 'economical' of around $0.45 in fees for a $15 transaction.
That has got stuck hence why I'm here.
I next did another transaction for normal fees ($3+ in fees) for a $10 transaction... crazy rate but thought whatever.


3 hours later still nothing.

Using electrum I did a CPFP adding another $5 in fees.  Transactions are still stuck an hour later.... is it just me or is bitcoin actually broken right now?  Why don't we just ban transactions under a certain value if it's likely to get stuck... I'd much prefer a UI pop up saying "Your transaction has fees of less than the current minimum $4.50, are you really sure you want to publish this?"

I'm not a big blocker advocate but I have to admit it's currently a terrible user experience and we need to fix it somehow.

I used ledger nano s to sent Bitcoin to bittrex and after 16h still no confirmation.
So anyone can advice what to do??

I used electrum today and tried to pay something on parallellminer.
Now the btc GOT WITHDRAWED from my wallet and the payment on the site was cancelled (after the 10 minutes) I dont know where the payment is stuck.
It says status: 1 confirmation

What can I do know to get my btc back? 

Very nice article, thankyou. AS you conversed most stuck transactions are due to low tx fee, I used to use Multibit wallet but sor some time, due to none custom tx setting, some transactions took four days!

I have not changed my desktop wallet now to Electrum, with a fee slider utility. No more long transactions.

Did coinbase give you a txid for the withdrawal? When you search this txid on a block explorer, does it show the transaction being confirmed?

I sent some bitcoin from coinbase to bittrex. The transaction has said completed in coinbase for a week. But my bittrex wallet still does not say it is completed. I checked the address to make sure I sent it to the right wallet and they match so that is not the issue. Does anyone have any ideas?

Your old transaction is still in other people's mempools. I think you need to wait for them to clear before sending again.

I hope someone can help me. A couple of hours ago i made an transaction from my bitcoin core wallet to my kraken wallet. Unfortunately i put in the wrong miners fee (way to low). I found this topic and followed the steps of starting bitcoin core with -walletbroadcast=0 and then i was able to abandon the transaction. When i did this i got my bitcoins back in my core wallet.

I then send my bitcoins again to my kraken account, this time i used dynamic fee and put the slider all the way to the right and also increased the amount of btc to transfer just because i wanted to transfer more btc. The status of the transaction showed "offlline". i figured out this was because i started core with "-walletbroadcast=0". So i restarted core without "-walletbroadcast=0" and then the status showed "0/unconfirmed, in mempool". When i search up the transactionid in blockchain.info it cant find the transaction. So i am wondering what went wrong and how can i fix this?

ps i also tried the rebroadcast the transaction by getting the getrawtransaction and using blockchain.info/pushtx, this gave me the message: Validation Error: Error #-26: 258: txn-mempool-conflict

The original transactionid with the way to low miners fee is: e57f73265506025cf486d4d51c959b5ede9117dddba6bc8a6764875ae4edd6b4
The new transactionid is: 6d50925ccae27615480b0a9b11f7be3391f2805a09b343d93d0adcd7ffeb601b

Thanks in advance!

You can send Bitcoin before Bitcoin core is fully synced, but it won't show in your client until your core is fully synced.

Edit: See https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9478848.

I opened my BitCoin Core Application for the first time since about 2013. I have 0.05 BTC in it. On 6/8/2017, I deposited 0.0010 into Bittrex but I have not seen the deposit credited to my account yet. My BitCore was still getting caught up on the blockchain and when I let the house this morning it was on 6/19/2017. So should I expect to see my deposit once my BitCoin Core App gets caught up?

Thanks! I will follow your instruction.

Edit : Further investigation shows that the exchanger that is supposed to fund me use blockchain.info wallet. From experience, wallet like electrum will not allow me to spend from a transaction with unconfirmed parent and maybe this is why there are so many do not use blockchain.info post.

Your transaction has unconfirmed output https://blockchain.info/tx/a257e852d4fcd099c2feea4b0af6417f41276f096f9d9b9c1e8701f543b04c67
^^^ has unconfirmed output https://blockchain.info/tx/431be6f4eae2a549f3a39dbd0e60d980a3c53dbebeb37dd3a6a935eefe633cd1
^^^ that one too: https://blockchain.info/tx/15a752c9f2e5534cf9dc685997d30299dea13134795dd19ecba89446d2a74b4a
and that one ^^^ : https://blockchain.info/tx/6cb62f4ccf2fc9329d4c915748df66b79ae426110b5f5cf53420e06b2478400a
^^^ this one too  : https://blockchain.info/tx/154ef2c55d0867ba60b48b09f83a7c872535f2710f29efe7cbb7abe2590184b4

Now, you have to wait for all of them from bottom to top to confirm.

edit: First one(or last in my post) is problem because it was sent with less than 1 satoshi fee. That is problem.

Hm, try to contact this guy https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/free-speed-up-btc-unconfirmed-transaction-to-confirmed-1946761 maybe he can help you.

I think you need to share your transaction id

Thanks for the post. It sounds like I just need to wait. I transferred the bitcoins I have stored on Bitcoin Core to paper wallets. I generated the wallet addresses off line and initiated the transfers through Bitcoin core in offline mode. These have yet to confirm but my balance shows them spent. I think the default processing fee was small. I'll wait for either the confirmation or the transaction to cancel after it times out. Does this sound OK? Nervous Newbie.