Topic: fee slider - please extend range (Read 847 times)

Do you mean the 12 word seed? or the actual private keys?

FYI, VIABTC saved my but, and I thank them for that!

I was later able to get my BTC out 2BTC at the time with max fees out of Multibit HD.. now it would be impossible since the fees have gone insane in the last five days.
I moved my BTC to electrum and so far, it gets my tx approved each time without any hassle.  It properly calculates the fees for you.

I tried importing the keys to electrum using HI-TEC99 method but it failed.  The tx were imported but the balance never updated and all tx were shown as unconfirmed.
That leaves you with only one option and it is to import the keys to breadwallet.

good luck.

Thanks to everyone who is trying to help.


Yes, in the beginning of the "great bitcoin traffic jam of 2017" that still helped. viabtc got my transactions mined, hail to their innovative & only-indirectly-selfish idea. Great that not everyone is myoptic in this culture.

By now ... that service is useless. 100 offered transactions are nothing versus 100k stuck transactions.

And I have added one more transaction to that today, using Multibit again. Wrong I guess. Multibit is broken beyond repair. Not that the software does not work, no it is great still, and I like it - but a fee slider which might have worked well in the early 20th century, can -when stuck within the old limits- sabotage the whole surrounding software. In 2017 it doesn't work anymore. A simple fee slider maximum, one integer -  and a whole software breaks.



Of course, I would like the Bitcoin warmongers on all sides to finally come to some intelligent peace treaty about scaling, and soon. But as long as that doesn't happen:

I actually do not mind to pay higher fees, to transact in the best money system ever invented. But what I do mind is that I cannot choose higher fees, within Multibit.  


Why the author/s not simply publish/es a new version, newer than 0.5.19, is beyond me. I don't think that Multibit is open source, is it? Could someone from the inside perhaps let a USB stick containing the Multibit sourcecode fall from a truck, into the right hands? That would be nice, thank you. Perhaps those right hands can create a version with higher possible fees. Thanks.

EDIT:

Nice, thanks a lot for this suggestion:


Fantastic thanks.


Yes, Microsoft did that too, with XP.

Thank you kindly..  I have tried the viBTC a number of times but it seems to be maxed out always.

I will probably try your contacts tomorrow if nothing happens soon.

Thanks for your reply.

Submit all your unconfirmed transaction IDs to this website, starting with the earliest, and moving through to the last. You will have to keep trying because the site only accepts 100 transactions an hour, and the network has a high backlog of unconfirmed transactions today.

https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/

If you are prepared to pay to get fast confirmations you can contact the users in this quote.

I am going through some pain with a number of unconfirmed transactions on my wallet.
The slider does not set the fee per kb or byte.  It sets a fee of BTC and does not change with the size of the transactions.
I tested it with two transactions and it does not change with the size (bytes) of the transaction.
The SLIDER IS LYING.

I have been advised not to send any more transactions because each transaction uses unspent inputs of the previous transaction, so it will not be executed until the previous transaction is finished.  So I have been stuck now for 3 days and still waiting while the price of BTC goes up and the network gets more clogged up.

Anyone knows when mempool gets flushed or can I possibly have my tx stuck for ever!

Thanks for your answers. So the 3 of us seem to be of a similar opinion on this.

I have mentioned this issue again now, in this other thread "Multibit resyncing everything each time"

Electrum automatically adjusts the maximum fee allowed on its fee slider. Recently its maximum has been >330 satoshi/byte. If the fees keep needing increasing multibit could easily need >500 satoshi/byte on its slider. It sounds stupid now, but a year ago paying >330 satoshi/byte sounded stupid.

Actually I think the slider should go to higher than 200 satoshi/byte, in case the recommended fees go through the roof at any point or if the user really needs to get the transaction confirmed quickly.  Maybe 400 satoshi/byte or so would be good (after that it gets ridiculous, not a lot of people would use Bitcoin if the fees were higher than that).

I think the recommended fees have been >220 satoshi/byte recently and for all we know it could get a lot higher.

(in multibit classic)

the slider can be set between
0.00001000 and 0.00050000 BTC per KB

If I understand this correctly https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ https://bitcoinfees.github.io/

then it would make sense to allow up to >200.000 Satoshi per KB - right?

That means the slider should go up to 0.00210 - right?

Please add that TODO for a future update, thanks a lot.