Topic: My Transaction Stuck already 4th Day - Please Help. - page 2. (Read 336 times)

You can try to make use of fee estimators and compare it with your wallet fee estimator, you will be able to know the fee you can pay that will include your transaction into a block fast. But, there are times the fee can be very high, this depends on the mempool. I do notice on weekend fee of 5 satoshi/vbyte (that does not mean though, depending on the mempool), but this is increased during week days, but what is causing it is when people are making much of transaction, in which there are a lot of transaction on the mempool, miners will first take up the ones with high fee, that is why the ones with low fee will not confirmed during the time. So, the fee depends on the mempool.

Paying from segwit to segwit address do have a low fee, there was a fee I checked yesterday on fee estimator, comparing segwit to legacy, the fee for legacy was about $8 while the fee for segwit was about $6. Using segwit will let you pay lower fee of up to 40% lower or more reduction. Also using segwit to pay to nested segwit and legacy is still higher in fee compared to paying from segwit to segwit. But, paying from legacy to legacy is much higher, in fact, it has the highest fee. So, using segwit will help you reduce the fee.

Using segwit will make your transaction fee to be reduced as explained above, but there are still possibilities you pay much lower fee in which transaction can be stuck in mempool. But, having the knowledge about fee estimation can help, also your wallet fee estimator or online fee estimators can help to determine this. Also, paying high priority fee will make your transaction confirmed in time.

Lastly, I will advice you to make use of wallet that support replace-by-fee, which can be used to pump the fee in time like this, provided if you want to. Electrum wallet supoot replace-by-fee.

I am not familiar with BRD wallet.

If your address starts with 1 it's not SegWit. If it starts with 3 it's SegWit compatible, if it starts with bc1 then it's native SegWit address. If you don't know what you do, I recommend 3* SegWit compatible, since many services still cannot send money to native segwit address. How to achieve that? I don't know, but BDR does offer SegWit, but I don't know how.

SegWit allows lower fee indeed, but that doesn't mean you'll pick lower number of satoshi/vbyte, instead the number of vbytes will be smaller.

Tips:
* from what I've read, BRD should allow better fee structure than "low, max,..." but if you cannot find any option to pick more exactly the fee, try another wallet https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
* before sending a transaction take a look at sites like https://mempool.space/ or https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx and decide better what fee to use.
* if you are not in a hurry, try to send transactions in the week-ends.

According to https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/mobile/android/brd/ this wallet supports the RBF feature. Is there no option for you to "bump the fee"/"increase the fee" or something similar in your app?

I get the feeling that either you can enable it when you make a transaction or it is enabled by default but you turned it off somehow.

Well, you asked for tips  

1) I've never heared about the wallet you're using... I have no idear if it's a desktop wallet or an online wallet, or how it works or what their feature set is... Maybe it's a good idear to switch to a more common wallet instead? Electrum gives you the option to customise your fees and it has opt-in rbf and CPFP built in to the gui. This means electrum is well equiped to give you complete controll over your fees (while giving you all the information you need to make the decission) AND it's setup to help you get transactions unstuck by bumping the fee (with opt-in RBF tx's) or by creating a CPFP (in case you're the receiver, or if you opted out RBF). Wasabi wallet is another good alternative with a similar feature set (at least when it comes to not getting your tx's stuck). Both wallets can be coupled to the most popular hardware wallets to, so if you ever decide you need more security, you won't have to climb a new learning curve since you can just use a ledger or a trezor hw wallet using exactly the same electrum or wasabi gui.

2) instead of thinking in dollars and euro's, think in transaction size. The fee is calculated in satoshi per vByte... Not in satoshi per transacted FIAT equivalent

3) learn how to use sites like this one: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h . If you have opted in rbf and you use a wallet that shows you the transaction size and lets you pick the fee, this site helps you to set the correct fees

4) learn that, as long as there is trust between the sender and the receiver, nothing really bad can happen. A transaction either confirms, or it gets pruned from the mempool of most nodes after a couple of weeks... As long as there is trust between the sender and the receiver, the worst that can happen is that the sender has to re-send the funds after a couple of weeks... As long as you both have controll over your wallets, and you used the correct addresses on the correct network, nothing really bad can happen. Things are different when you pay somebody and there's a time limit (like for example, if you pay in an online shop): in this case you might want to overpay a little, so you don't get into troubles if your tx doesn't confirm on time.

@NeuroticFish thanks for your reply and I will considering in Future the Thread you mentioned.

And right just now pushed again my Transaction ID and  I've got the answer "This transaction is being accelerated."
But this wasn't me because before I always got the message "try agaian later"

Thanks again for you too
Regarding to my other Questions do you have some Tipps for me?

Kind Regards.

1. I think that either me, either somebody else added your TX to ViaBTC free accelerator, I've got the answer "This transaction is being accelerated."
I didn't use the accelerator for long time, but since the time was right, I gave it a shot.
Keep in mind that this doesn't mean that next block will have your tx, instead one of the next blocks mined by ViaBTC will have it.

2. If I am wrong, or for next time you are in a trouble, I think that this thread may worth a try: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/freepay-bitcoin-transaction-accelerator-5034315

@Charles-Tim Thanks for your quick Reply

Understand, than I will wait to see if this Weekend will be accepted.

Regarding to my Transactions in Future what should I do? Always set the Maximum Fee? (is this not stupid?)
till now every time worked Regular Fee

Yesterday just enabled on my BRD Wallet the SegWit Option...
Is this would Help me in Future for my Transactions not to stuck?

Thanks again

The transaction fee used is 20.552 sat/vbyte, but at the moment, the transaction fee that can possibly make miner to put your transaction into next block is around 102 Satoshi/vbyte. Also, the mempool is congested for now. The transaction is not replace-by-fee supported, which means you can not also pump the transaction. Also the transaction likely not having UTXO back into your wallet. Which means you have no option than to just wait for the mempool to be less congested, the mempool will probably be less congested during this weekend.

Hello Dear Community,

My Wallet is BRD, I have contacted the support but their Answer was with predefined Text "I have to wait and can do nothing." ;(

To mention that I chosen the Regular Fee as always before and never had issues like this.
The transferred amount is 40 Euro and found some Acceleration tolls witch offer acceleration but for 140$

ViaBTC never worked for me ... tried 1000 times at Begining of Hour , End, Middle .. Random and never accepted

My Transaction ID:
f0e7532301b5c5cdc3b7a14f214df91a92223baa1e750d940a8ed2627a8ebbd5

Please someone if can Help me

Kind Regards.