Does it take 1hr for one confirmation? - page 2.

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Quote from: Omegasun on July 15, 2016, 10:49:30 PM

Quote from: BicolIsarog on July 15, 2016, 09:40:20 PM

A couple of days ago, I had a transaction take 1 hour to confirm! Never had that before, and have since increased the fee I pay in the hope of avoiding that in the future. I wonder if the network is becoming overloaded.

apparently yes. it depends on the status of the server of blockchain. somethimes it took 8hrs because blockchain is the favorite spot of the ddos attacker. hahaha

attacking the blockchain? DDoS attacker? blockchain is different from blockchain.info (block explorer) don't think of them being the same.

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Quote from: BicolIsarog on July 15, 2016, 09:40:20 PM

A couple of days ago, I had a transaction take 1 hour to confirm! Never had that before, and have since increased the fee I pay in the hope of avoiding that in the future. I wonder if the network is becoming overloaded.

apparently yes. it depends on the status of the server of blockchain. somethimes it took 8hrs because blockchain is the favorite spot of the ddos attacker. hahaha

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Quote from: BicolIsarog on July 15, 2016, 09:40:20 PM

A couple of days ago, I had a transaction take 1 hour to confirm! Never had that before, and have since increased the fee I pay in the hope of avoiding that in the future. I wonder if the network is becoming overloaded.

it really depends on the transaction fees you paid and how many unconfirmed transaction are in the memory pool currently (you can check it here: https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions)

so basically the miners will pick up and include in a block the transactions that pays more fees than others so if you pay less fee, you will need to wait probably a little longer to get a confirmation

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oh man this is a pretty old topic.
The short of it, always use the suggest fee, or a little higher, in the bitcoin client but that is still no guarantee.
There are many factors that go into it and to be a smart consumer you need to learn and understand some of the details.

If you really want to know then ins and outs check this link out.

Quote from: -ck on July 01, 2016, 08:01:28 AM

Long discussion with plenty of explanations in the mining section:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/empty-blocks-1085800

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A couple of days ago, I had a transaction take 1 hour to confirm! Never had that before, and have since increased the fee I pay in the hope of avoiding that in the future. I wonder if the network is becoming overloaded.

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