Bumping!
Since we have a lot of pending tx ATM and mempool is congested most of the times, CPFP can be a good way to confirm the unconfirmed tx. For using CPFP, make sure you are using a compatible wallet; more explanation- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52969242
Topic: Child Pays for Parent (Read 546 times)
then that is the use case for another coin, not bitcoin.
Altcoins might be faster, but at the expense of less security. Have a look at https://github.com/lukechilds/howmanyconfs.com. Unfortunately the site itself has been down for a couple of months, but you can still see screenshots on the github. Even the fastest altcoins are several times slower than bitcoin to reach the same level of security, but the majority are closer to 100x slower or even more. There are also plenty of altcoins, including some major ones, which have been successfully 51% attacked.Using altcoins has other problems too. I either have to plan all my purchases in advance so I can buy them as needed, or buy them in bulk and then slowly lose value on them since most of them just depreciate in relation to bitcoin. Much rather just use Lightning.
Yes, it is very easy to be fast when security and decentralization are not important. Additionally, most of those coins would be slow if they were as congested as the Bitcoin network.
Doesn't the topic title sound cool?
CPFP- Child Pays for Parent
Cool name indeed CPFP- Child Pays for Parent
You can start accepting lightning payments. Using the lightning nework will significantly reduce transaction fees and your customers will have not to wait long time for confirmation as transactions are instant.
Although it's true that Lightning Network will reduce fee and solve the issue with scalibility, this is far away t be used. If there's no much settlement can be done in a channel, the fee will be more than normal transaction. I think there are a few to zero merchant is accepting payments through LN. LN can only be benefited for both the merchant and the customers, once there are a lot of merchant starts to accept payment through LN and LN channel get connected with all the available network, otherwise, as I said, fee will be much higher. You will not consider joining a channel just to pay one merchant.Well, it's off topic here. I will soon create a topic on Lightning Network and it's possible output.
then that is the use case for another coin, not bitcoin.
Altcoins might be faster, but at the expense of less security. Have a look at https://github.com/lukechilds/howmanyconfs.com. Unfortunately the site itself has been down for a couple of months, but you can still see screenshots on the github. Even the fastest altcoins are several times slower than bitcoin to reach the same level of security, but the majority are closer to 100x slower or even more. There are also plenty of altcoins, including some major ones, which have been successfully 51% attacked.Using altcoins has other problems too. I either have to plan all my purchases in advance so I can buy them as needed, or buy them in bulk and then slowly lose value on them since most of them just depreciate in relation to bitcoin. Much rather just use Lightning.
If I'm selling artwork, unless it's dirt cheap I am not going to let the buyer skimp on fees. I want a quick transaction.
If the art is worth like 5 bucks, then that is the use case for another coin, not bitcoin.
I think most of the market understands this already.
You can start accepting lightning payments. Using the lightning nework will significantly reduce transaction fees and your customers will have not to wait long time for confirmation as transactions are instant. If the art is worth like 5 bucks, then that is the use case for another coin, not bitcoin.
I think most of the market understands this already.
If I'm selling artwork, unless it's dirt cheap I am not going to let the buyer skimp on fees. I want a quick transaction.
If the art is worth like 5 bucks, then that is the use case for another coin, not bitcoin.
I think most of the market understands this already.
Skimping on fees is fine for moving between your own wallets but not for trading.
If the art is worth like 5 bucks, then that is the use case for another coin, not bitcoin.
I think most of the market understands this already.
Skimping on fees is fine for moving between your own wallets but not for trading.
So, segwit has nothing to do with fee(affecting indirectly though), it was generally implemented for reducing the transaction size? I used to think that it was for reducing fee.
It actually wasn't primarily implemented to reduce transaction size either, although both the transaction size decrease and fee decrease are what most users know it for.It was initially implemented to fix the transaction malleability bug, which allows nodes to change the hashes of unconfirmed transactions. This was necessary for the Lightning Network to function. However, as a side effect of segregating the witness data, it counts the size of your transaction differently and effectively makes it smaller, meaning that we can fit more transactions in a block and you can save money on fees.
You can read more about it here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0141.mediawiki
Or here (less technical): https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segregated_Witness
you don't have to wait for a senior member to correct you as there are also some forum members below your rank with more explanatory answers to what you may not understand.
I know this forum is full of Legends of Bitcoin. With Senior member I actually referred to members who are here for long time, not necessarily with higher rank, I believe in experience 
Nevertheless, anyone can share their opinion if they have something to add here. What using SegWit addresses does is make any resulting transaction smaller in terms of bytes, so the same fee rate in sats/vbyte works out as a smaller overall fee in sats. If you were to pay the same overall fee in sats as an identical transaction from a Legacy address, then your fee rate (sats/vbyte) would be higher, and therefore lead to a faster confirmation.
Using a wallet that supports Segwit is the best option to avoid slow transaction confirmation.
Simply using a SegWit address doesn't mean your transaction will necessarily confirm any faster. Considering a transaction with Legacy inputs and a transaction with SegWit inputs, if they both have the same fee rate in terms of sats/vbyte, then they will both have the same priority in the mempool and will both take equally long to confirm.What using SegWit addresses does is make any resulting transaction smaller in terms of bytes, so the same fee rate in sats/vbyte works out as a smaller overall fee in sats. If you were to pay the same overall fee in sats as an identical transaction from a Legacy address, then your fee rate (sats/vbyte) would be higher, and therefore lead to a faster confirmation.
Using a wallet that supports Segwit is the best option to avoid slow transaction confirmation.
If my explanation was wrong, I request the senior member to correct me. I'm a learner here, not for a long time.
Your topic and post is absolutely informative and I enjoyed it. But point of correction, you don't have to wait for a senior member to correct you as there are also some forum members below your rank with more explanatory answers to what you may not understand.
If my explanation was wrong, I request the senior member to correct me. I'm a learner here, not for a long time.
fee in bitcoin is the money you pay to "buy" a portion of a finite commodity called "block space". and in that purchase you are competing with others. if there aren't others outbidding you, you can pay the lowest and if there are others outbidding you, you have to pay higher.
so when there is a big backlog (bigger mempool) paying higher fees you have to pay higher than them to get a high priority.
and when it comes to CPFP you are buying space for 2 transactions instead of one so you have to keep that in mind when calculating the fee for the second (child) transaction.
so when there is a big backlog (bigger mempool) paying higher fees you have to pay higher than them to get a high priority.
and when it comes to CPFP you are buying space for 2 transactions instead of one so you have to keep that in mind when calculating the fee for the second (child) transaction.
Would the fee will change when the mempool is congested? Or will be the same as this.
Those numbers will change as the mempool fills/empties. They are poor numbers to go on, though. They use dollars per transaction and assume an average transaction size, and both the current price of bitcoin and the size of your transaction could vary quite a lot, meaning paying that fee might be far too small for a fast confirmation.Which wallet are you using? I don't know if bitcoin core suggest the required network fee, but in Electrum you can get the recommended fee. If you follow Electrum recommendations, and pay the highest recommended fee, your transaction must be included in the next block which is within 10 minutes.
You also can pay high fee than recommendations, in fact, you can pay as much as you want although that's unnecessary.
Yup, I actually tried once to lower the fee and it completed the confirmation in about 24 hours though it's fine as I was really expecting it and not in a hurry.You also can pay high fee than recommendations, in fact, you can pay as much as you want although that's unnecessary.
Would the fee will change when the mempool is congested? Or will be the same as this.
Those numbers will change as the mempool fills/empties. They are poor numbers to go on, though. They use dollars per transaction and assume an average transaction size, and both the current price of bitcoin and the size of your transaction could vary quite a lot, meaning paying that fee might be far too small for a fast confirmation.Or could I still adjust the highest fee as possible? However, that will contradict on the 10 minutes confirmation because of 1mb capacity of mempool. Does it?
You can pay any fee you want. You could pay a fee of an entire bitcoin if you wanted. It would be completely unnecessary, though, as it can't confirm any faster than in the next block, so you will still be waiting 10 minutes on average. As I said above, if you absolutely must get in to the next block, but still want to pay the smallest possible fee, then go to the third graph here - https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,8h "Mempool Size in MB" - mouse over the far right, and pick a fee (in sat/byte) that will put you very close to the tip of the mempool, probably less than 0.1 MB, but maybe even closer if the the mempool is rapidly filling up. Would the fee will change when the mempool is congested? Or will be the same as this.
Or could I still adjust the highest fee as possible? However, that will contradict on the 10 minutes confirmation because of 1mb capacity of mempool. Does it?
Which wallet are you using? I don't know if bitcoin core suggest the required network fee, but in Electrum you can get the recommended fee. If you follow Electrum recommendations, and pay the highest recommended fee, your transaction must be included in the next block which is within 10 minutes.Or could I still adjust the highest fee as possible? However, that will contradict on the 10 minutes confirmation because of 1mb capacity of mempool. Does it?
You also can pay high fee than recommendations, in fact, you can pay as much as you want although that's unnecessary.
Would the fee will change when the mempool is congested? Or will be the same as this.
Or could I still adjust the highest fee as possible? However, that will contradict on the 10 minutes confirmation because of 1mb capacity of mempool. Does it?
Or could I still adjust the highest fee as possible? However, that will contradict on the 10 minutes confirmation because of 1mb capacity of mempool. Does it?
I’ve done CPFP transactions on my own and it has saved me big time. I remember using but pay for something during a period of high volume and the fee was too low. I sent another Tx from the same address with a ridiculously high fee and it confirmed in the next few blocks.
As i have written i dont have used the service they offer and dont know how exactly they are working .
Was thinking maybe it brings some help for about slow transactions .
Have read about that a long time ago and remember about it as i have read the thread .
Was thinking maybe it brings some help for about slow transactions .
Have read about that a long time ago and remember about it as i have read the thread .
Our service will rebroadcast the transaction via 10 Bitcoin nodes.
Rebroadcasting will only "speed up" your transaction if it is has been dropped from the mempool; it won't change your transaction's position in the mempool, which is entirely dependent on the fee you have paid. This service is useless unless your transaction has been dropped by a number of nodes, which will generally only happen if you've paid a very small fee and the mempool has been particularly full, in which case it will either drop off the bottom due to the mempool size limit, or it will timeout.And also maybe an helpful page is https://bitcoinfees.net/
Looking at the number of transactions at each fee is less helpful than looking at the size of all the transactions at that fee. 100 transactions could take up less space in a block than 1 transaction. I would always advocate for using the third graph on this site - https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,8h "Mempool Size in MB" - to see how far from the tip of the mempool your fee would be.
There is also a Service called " https://bitaccelerate.com/ " where it is possible to boost transactions !
Free Bitcoin Transaction Accelerator
BitAccelerate is a free Bitcoin transaction accelerator that allows you to get faster confirmations on your unconfirmed transactions.
Just enter the transaction ID (TXID) and click the "Accelerate" button.
Our service will rebroadcast the transaction via 10 Bitcoin nodes.
When more people start to use Bitcoin, the block size reaches the limit and leads to crowded Bitcoin network.
As a result, some transactions are delayed, waiting for confirmation.
To speed up the process, these Bitcoin users have to pay higher miner fees and/or use SegWit transactions.
Source : https://bitaccelerate.com/
And also maybe an helpful page is https://bitcoinfees.net/
Confirmation time: ≤ 20 min. | ≤ 1 hour | ≤ 6 hours | ≤ 24 hours | ≤ infinity
Average transaction fee: $0.28 (1 input, 2 outputs, SegWit, 1 hour conf. time.)
Source : https://bitcoinfees.net/
I never used the Service and just read about so if you use it , its at your one risk to do !
Hope this helps also and thanks for the thread.
Free Bitcoin Transaction Accelerator
BitAccelerate is a free Bitcoin transaction accelerator that allows you to get faster confirmations on your unconfirmed transactions.
Just enter the transaction ID (TXID) and click the "Accelerate" button.
Our service will rebroadcast the transaction via 10 Bitcoin nodes.
When more people start to use Bitcoin, the block size reaches the limit and leads to crowded Bitcoin network.
As a result, some transactions are delayed, waiting for confirmation.
To speed up the process, these Bitcoin users have to pay higher miner fees and/or use SegWit transactions.
Source : https://bitaccelerate.com/
And also maybe an helpful page is https://bitcoinfees.net/
Confirmation time: ≤ 20 min. | ≤ 1 hour | ≤ 6 hours | ≤ 24 hours | ≤ infinity
Average transaction fee: $0.28 (1 input, 2 outputs, SegWit, 1 hour conf. time.)
Source : https://bitcoinfees.net/
I never used the Service and just read about so if you use it , its at your one risk to do !
Hope this helps also and thanks for the thread.
the biggest problem you will face for using CPFP is when the wallet software that you are using doesn't have the feature to allow you to spend unconfirmed transactions. if it doesn't then you will have to use CPFP with unconventional ways such as creating the transaction yourself and signing through console,....
and usually if the wallet has that option it also has the CPFP option too in which case you should trust that it takes care of fee calculation and suggests the appropriate one (no need to use a website to guess the fees that are in most cases doing a very poor job).
and usually if the wallet has that option it also has the CPFP option too in which case you should trust that it takes care of fee calculation and suggests the appropriate one (no need to use a website to guess the fees that are in most cases doing a very poor job).
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