Topic: All about "stuck" transactions and what you can do to fix them - page 4. (Read 148346 times)

I have a stuck transaction going to 8 days now. I make a bitcoin exchange from a website, after sending them payment in my local currency I expect them to fund my bitcoin address but no sign of payment. After talking with their support they provide me payment proof

https://blockchain.info/tx/99d8f3a29b7962d90828694057b01a89169285b0eaab637b77c7b19d916a5300

The transaction seems to have a good fee so can someone tell me why this payment got stuck for so long??

The only thing I can observe is that my electrum wallet still show that my address balance is zero

Meh, I step away from BTC for a couple of months and the tx fees have seemingly exponentially tripled on me from what I have been using, so now I have a transaction stuck until its forgotten really because I don't really have the dust funds to move anything from my wallet anymore.. And I don't think any miner would want to confirm it because of me unknowingly using fees from a few months ago without investigating..  ..I also realized that the RBF info stuff was not showing in my Electrum client because I didn't know about the updates and was still using 2.5.3, So this is a learning incident that in reality is totally my fault. Thank you for helping me figure out why my transaction has been stuck for the past couple of days. On a side-note, how long does it generally take for transactions to be forgotten..?

Transaction the second month in unofficial. Uskoritel writes a small Commission, although the purse multibit he fixed it. What you can do in this situation?

txid?

i tried to send 250 usd worth in bitcoin the other day and i got charged 298 usd in fee, rip.

Hi.
I´m new here and also a Newbie by using BTC.
I have MultibitHD installed and send a amount on May, 24. But until now the program shows me still SENDING but until now the transaction has not been completed. I also turned the program off for more than 5 days. But today I logged in again, and there is still the value in SENDING  and also an other unconfirmed value which may be the fees, but I am not sure. But I am not able to complete the transaction and also the transaction has not been forgotten and the BTC turned back to my wallet.
Is there a way to cancel and fix it?
Thanks in advance

I bought some bitcoin from coinbase.  I then tried to transfer the BTC to my electrum wallet.  Not knowing what mBTC was, I used acronymfinder.com and was told (incorrectly) that it was microBTC.  Accordingly, I attempted to transfer 1000x as much BTC from the Coinbase wallet to my electrum wallet.  The result is now that the entire amount of BTC that was in Coinbase at that time was transferred, but my electrum wallet says that there is a transaction still pending listing the larger amount.  What do I do about this pending transaction?

Parenthetically, I have bought more BTC since then which sits in Coinbase and has not been transferred.  So, the only practical effect of this pending transaction may be to be (anti-)cosmetic.  Should I cancel the erroneous transaction or what?

Quickseller was able to help get about $1800 in BTC to confirm within 2 hours after being unconfirmed for about 24 hours previously. He provides a good service and helped me understand the blockchain/miner's fee problem much better than I previously understood.

Thumbs up and thank you Quickseller.

I have just paid viaBTC.com 0.01BTC to accelerate a stuck transaction (due to low fees) and it was done straight away. You have to email them [email protected] to ask them to do this manually.

Done.

Can you please add a note to include the txid needing confirmation in the initial PM to me? I am receiving an increasing number of PMs asking for help every day, and it is becoming a hassle asking users for the txid in response to a message asking if I can help. This is especially true considering that the time I am able to devote to the forum is declining.

Thanks. 

Today i tryed viabtc for unstuck transaction and send payment to viabtc of 0.01btc, the first three mails to support is answered fast for say what i need to pay and in what wallet addres but after payment don't answer more mails and the tx after 8hours not's confirmed.

Edit: After 16hours tx is confirmed, not the fast i expected.

Great tutorial achow. One thing I want to add to it and that is, recently after updating the firmware of my Ledger Nano S to v1.3, I was able to use the Opt-In RBF (kind of) within its integrated wallet app. It has a nifty little button, which upon clicking, notifies me automatically about how much fee to increase in order to accelerate confirmation. And I guess it follows https://bitcoinfees.21.co since, most of the time it predicts the correct fee that needs to be increased before creating a new transaction. It is illustrated below: (sorry for censoring)

Step 1


Step 2


Hope this helps someone who is opting to buy a hardware wallet and not get stuck for hours in a transaction.

I'm having the same issue with a transaction going from my Havelock investments account to my mycelium wallet.  AFAIK, I cant control the miners fee on a withdrawal out of havelock and as such I've been waiting all day for my transaction to be confirmed.  It seems like a may be SOL because I cant imagine Havelock paying a substantial miners fee for withdrawals out of their site. If anybody has any ideas let me know.

got the same problem with two transactions at Electrum. One of them just got confirmed very quickly after I increased the fee another time (1: 0,0001 BTC -> 2: 0,0002 BTC -> 3: 0,0003 BTC)

"double spend" is what Blockchain.info calls it when you spend bitcoins after they "bounce back" to your wallet.

Unconfirmed for a long time is typically due to insufficient transaction fees, but also could be due to spending bitcoins that you received in a transaction that hasn't confirmed yet.  We'd need to see the transactionID to be certain.

My advice is to stop using blockchain.info completely.  Find a better wallet.

In the meantime you'll just have to wait.  You can try using a transaction accelerator ( https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator ) on one of your two unconfirmed transactions while you wait, but I don't think they'll accept it since it is labeled as a "double spend".

Ok so I've got a really complicated issue here. I started a transaction which didn't get confirmed for a couple of days. Yesterday, I saw that it bounced back into my wallet, so I spent the money on something else. That transaction still didn't get confirmed. Then, this morning, I get locked out of my wallet (blockchain) cuz of negative balance. I looked up my address on blockchain.info and found that I was a few $ under because the transaction which had bounced back was automatically respent and still unconfirmed. I arranged the negative balance by putting what's missing in my wallet and was able to log in. However, now both my stuck transactions are unconfirmed and labelled "double spend". Is there anything other than wait around (which is what blockchain support suggested) that I can do to fix it?

Blockchain.info has a history of running a poorly written and poorly designed wallet. There is a reason that they were removed from bitcoin.org's Choose Your Wallet page; they failed to meet the standards required to make it onto that page. Blockchain.info also lacks any utilities for advanced users to do advanced things, and that includes fee setting. You should stop using them and switch to a desktop wallet.

No one can force a transaction to be dropped from the mempool. That is not what Core does. Rather all you can do is drop the transaction from your own mempool, but you can't drop it from someone else's.

They receive them as one output in the coinbase. It is combined with the block subsidy.

Your transaction has confirmed already.

How to see the size of a transaction in blockchain.info they're so stupid that even with their recommended fee my transaction is unconfirmed after 12 hours.
Is it possible that because of the so called higher fee which I selected in advance send option the size of my transaction increased? if so then why did it say that high fee is not needed and even suggested to lower the fee to 0.00021 in order to get confirmed after 10 minutes?
Are they stupid or just doing this on purpose?

Can I now that have no access to the desktop computer which has the core wallet on it import my address on electrum since I do have the private key and do the double spend? how else can I make the transaction to be dropped from mempool without core wallet? is there any online service providing that function?

ViaBTC said succeeded but they haven't found any blocks recently yet I'm sure that they will included it in the first block they find but I need to know to add the info to my brain

Also I have another question(s) and sorry to ask so much, when miners mine a block with thousands of small fees are they receiving them just like users are sending them? like receiving 0.0005/ 0.0004/ 0.001/ 0.000018/ 0.0007 etc? or are they all accumulated and combined as a single output?

If the small changes will for always remain the same way and can never be consolidated then what happens if someone breaks down hundreds of thousands or even millions of bitcoins into small outputs to make it harder and harder for people to spend since every output will have a lower value than the fee required to spend it?
If there is a way to consolidate these small amounts then why can't users do it themselves since it only sends all the small amounts to the same address and rounds them to one small sized output? why no one ever thought about to implementing such a thing?

---

This is the TX which has 111sat/b fee which I didn't know when sending and I'm going to stop using blockchain.info because they really suck.

I would think for it to be more along the lines of that traffic capacity was increased 11% but population growth and demographic shifts results in potential demand of >11% of prior capacity, therefore the roads continued to run at capacity.

If the max block size were increased to 1.11 MB today, then the blocks would probably still be full, and transactions would probably not get much cheaper. On the other hand, if the max block size were raised to say 8 MB today, then blocks would probably not be immidiately full, and the cost of including a tx in a block would be more in line with the cost of the miner including one additional transaction of it's size in a block plus some amount for profit. Over time, I would expect that demand for blockspace would increase to the point that blocks would become full again (because of things like increased adoption, and a higher number of economic transactions) , and the max block size would again need to be increased -- this would be okay because it is likely for technology to have improved by then.

I think that altcoins might be used more today because LN is not currently an option, however using altcoins will generally involve costs above a Bitcoin tx fee, such as exchange fees, and slippage when trading altcoins.