I wanted to post a message to all the users who are waiting for their withdraws over the last month, and also to debunk a common myth about BTC transactions.
One of the most common myths many people hear or seem to believe is that after a certain amount of time has passed and a transaction is not confirmed, it's deleted or it expires, and the coins return to the wallet.
This myth is false. Transactions never expire and never get deleted permanently, they are just removed from the mempool.
Different wallets and block explorers have different settings for how long they keep transactions in their mempool and how much MB it can use. This is why we see transactions being deleted off block explorers like blockchain.info with the message "Transaction not found", or with btc.com saying "Removed / Doublespend".
What happens in reality is that the wallet which sent those coins rebroadcasts the transaction to the network every couple of hours automatically. This is why transactions may be on the explorers at some points but not others.
Example:
Transaction on btc.com shows expired/removed:
https://btc.com/8e0169f69bec7e3cbb8f0b0c39e5793c3af647021d176a9a423b4046d10643deSame transaction on blockchain.info:
https://blockchain.info/tx/8e0169f69bec7e3cbb8f0b0c39e5793c3af647021d176a9a423b4046d10643deAnd on blockcyper it shows it was received "about 9 hours ago" at the time of this post:
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/8e0169f69bec7e3cbb8f0b0c39e5793c3af647021d176a9a423b4046d10643de/Long story shortDon't panic, and don't pay attention to any of those "expired" or "double spend" or "deleted" or "removed" messages that you see on various explorers. The transaction will be broadcast indefinitely until a miner picks it up and confirms it. As for exactly when that happens, nobody is able to say. I hope for everyone's sake that old transactions are confirmed as soon as possible.
What's been done about it to fix the issue for the futureFaucetHub has changed our sat per byte fee that we send Bitcoin withdraws with from 30 sat/b to 140 sat/b, which allows transactions to confirm within 2-300 minutes in current conditions. However so that we can sustain that and continue to provide a strong service to users and faucet/website owners, we have switched Bitcoin from daily withdraws to weekly withdraws. There's now an option to expedite the withdraw and get it sent on the same day if you submit it before 6PM GMT.
Anyone spreading any further FUD about those "missing" withdrawals will be ignored here on bitcointalk and banned from faucethub's chat.
If some individuals are tech illiterates, it doesn't mean everyone is.