can a trasaction now be stuck forever?

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Quote from: alexandrous80 on December 20, 2017, 09:23:19 AM

I've seen older posts on this and my comment was deleted. My question is, isnt there a limit? Everyone seems to have a different answer but I am wondering if a transaction can be stuck in limbo forever?
I know of one which is stuck for 16 days so far and counting, till now I have not seen an older one but wondered if there are others out there?
With the recent surge in bitcoin activity I am wondering if this has now become a possibility. Are there any miners who can clarify on this.

if the transaction is not complete the the bitcoin is going back to the wallet he came from base in my experience nothing to worry but if you fund is from in the investment or hyip you need to worry ..

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That or wait and pray, no other way unfortunately. Have ~320 (380$ value when sent) stuck for 3 days now, same fee roughly 9.8$.

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Hi i'm just asking a question relevant to the topic being discussed.

One of my friend sent 0.019 BTC with a fee of 0.0006 BTC from his electrum wallet to his localbitcoins account.Now it has been 15 days since the bitcoins were sent,till now not confirmed.Earlier in his LBC wallet,it showed as 30 minutes more for confirmation and that too disappeared after five days.Now in his electrum wallet,that transaction was shows as low fee.My friend tried to use free transaction accelerator service,but no use.Now,one of the service asks $30 to make the transaction get confirmed.And now,sadly within these days of waiting,BTC price has also started to fall from $20,000 to almost $16,000.Now my question is that is it the only way for my friend to pay that $30 fee to get his transaction confirmed?

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Quote from: alexandrous80 on December 20, 2017, 09:23:19 AM

I've seen older posts on this and my comment was deleted. My question is, isnt there a limit? Everyone seems to have a different answer but I am wondering if a transaction can be stuck in limbo forever?
I know of one which is stuck for 16 days so far and counting, till now I have not seen an older one but wondered if there are others out there?
With the recent surge in bitcoin activity I am wondering if this has now become a possibility. Are there any miners who can clarify on this.

You just need to put a higher fee so that your transaction will be prioritize it it will be confirmed fast. If you will put a much lower fee then the opposite will happen, it would take a very long time for the transaction to be confirmed. It could take 15 days or more for a low fee transaction to be completed.

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Not really, i have never seen or heard about any transaction which has been struck off for more than 2-3 weeks. It is recommended to choose high fees for speedy transactions or should avoid the transactions with low fees.

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Bitcoin Core v0.13.0 and earlier versions nodes have a default mempool expiration time of 3 days.
While Bitcoin Core v0.13.1 and later versions have a default of 2 weeks.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/5f0e27f1a8495d9be43a953bd0371ccbce510105

Other non-Bitcoin Core nodes have their own policies. So no one really know how long a transaction can be stucked.

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Quote from: alexandrous80 on December 20, 2017, 09:44:36 AM

Quote from: SamReomo on December 20, 2017, 09:34:42 AM

Quote from: alexandrous80 on December 20, 2017, 09:23:19 AM

I've seen older posts on this and my comment was deleted. My question is, isnt there a limit? Everyone seems to have a different answer but I am wondering if a transaction can be stuck in limbo forever?
I know of one which is stuck for 16 days so far and counting, till now I have not seen an older one but wondered if there are others out there?
With the recent surge in bitcoin activity I am wondering if this has now become a possibility. Are there any miners who can clarify on this.

No, there can not be such type of transactions that should take more than 6 months or a year depending on the amount and the fees. If a transactions is set with higher fees then the transactions will go much faster than the others. But if the fees are too low for a transaction, and its value is very higher than there can be some instances where the transaction may take months or years to complete. But still those kind of transactions can be put into a faster speed by some services that promise to accelerate the speed of the transactions. However, it's necessary to understand the fees before sending or receiving higher value transactions because those months, or years can be disasters.

Wow, that's terrible. So you are 100% sure and know of cases where it took years/months?

Don't bother asking him, he will never come back.
He made his 4 lines post that is a pile of garbage and now he is gone.

Transactions, until they are included in a block are kept in the mempool.
But what most newbies don't get is that there is not a single mempool.
Each node has it's own resources available and it can keep as many transactions in his mempool as long as it wants.
But most clients drop them after a few days or when the memory allocated gets close to the limit.

So yeah it can reach 10-20 days, but 6 months I doubt it.

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Years and months? lol

Max i've had was 6 days and that is still awful! Now going on the 3rd day unconfirmed with 10$ fee.

bitcoin network is one massive jerk off session, they either don't got hte power or are all jerking off massively for 2 weeks.

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Quote from: SamReomo on December 20, 2017, 09:34:42 AM

Quote from: alexandrous80 on December 20, 2017, 09:23:19 AM

I've seen older posts on this and my comment was deleted. My question is, isnt there a limit? Everyone seems to have a different answer but I am wondering if a transaction can be stuck in limbo forever?
I know of one which is stuck for 16 days so far and counting, till now I have not seen an older one but wondered if there are others out there?
With the recent surge in bitcoin activity I am wondering if this has now become a possibility. Are there any miners who can clarify on this.

No, there can not be such type of transactions that should take more than 6 months or a year depending on the amount and the fees. If a transactions is set with higher fees then the transactions will go much faster than the others. But if the fees are too low for a transaction, and its value is very higher than there can be some instances where the transaction may take months or years to complete. But still those kind of transactions can be put into a faster speed by some services that promise to accelerate the speed of the transactions. However, it's necessary to understand the fees before sending or receiving higher value transactions because those months, or years can be disasters.

Wow, that's terrible. So you are 100% sure and know of cases where it took years/months?

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Quote from: alexandrous80 on December 20, 2017, 09:23:19 AM

I've seen older posts on this and my comment was deleted. My question is, isnt there a limit? Everyone seems to have a different answer but I am wondering if a transaction can be stuck in limbo forever?
I know of one which is stuck for 16 days so far and counting, till now I have not seen an older one but wondered if there are others out there?
With the recent surge in bitcoin activity I am wondering if this has now become a possibility. Are there any miners who can clarify on this.

No, there can not be such type of transactions that should take more than 6 months or a year depending on the amount and the fees. If a transactions is set with higher fees then the transactions will go much faster than the others. But if the fees are too low for a transaction, and its value is very higher than there can be some instances where the transaction may take months or years to complete. But still those kind of transactions can be put into a faster speed by some services that promise to accelerate the speed of the transactions. However, it's necessary to understand the fees before sending or receiving higher value transactions because those months, or years can be disasters.

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I've seen older posts on this and my comment was deleted. My question is, isnt there a limit? Everyone seems to have a different answer but I am wondering if a transaction can be stuck in limbo forever?
I know of one which is stuck for 16 days so far and counting, till now I have not seen an older one but wondered if there are others out there?
With the recent surge in bitcoin activity I am wondering if this has now become a possibility. Are there any miners who can clarify on this.

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