What's going on with the payments?!
I have a bunch of transactions that were "sent" but aren't being picked up by blocks as they are found. I also have a few bets that despite having a payment TX, can not be found on blockchain... I'm also missing about 30BTC worth of bets that haven't shown up at all, I could really use these BTC right now - it'd be nice to sell some while the price is up
It's up to pools to confirm transactions. Very small payments can take a long time to confirm. There are some pools out there that seem to be very misconfigured since there have been times where pools are creating blocks with < 200 transactions in them even with 2,000 waiting for confirmations [WITH FEES!].
However, I've just started playing SatoshiDice for fun with some friends, and there's one thing that has really slowed down being able to play: Sometimes a TX goes from PENDING to UNKNOWN. My assumption is that means the original payout TX was trying to use funds which weren't confirmed, and due to time it eventually became an "orphaned transaction".
What's the normal turn around time for SatoshiDice to resend UNKNOWN transactions?
Thanks for the response!
I have been playing Satoshidice from the beginning and never had problems with UNKNOWN transactions in the past. This seems to be a problem in the past few days - if you look back at the posts it looks like someone cleaned out their wallet on a large bet that really slowed down processing but I thought that problem was fixed. Seems they're having more problems again today :\ Go figure I have no problems when I Lose 50+ BTC but can't get paid on my small transactions that I now need to play more or spend :\
In over 10,000 bets I have never waited more than about 30 minutes on ANY transaction with the exception of the first few days when they were working out the kinks.
So as for my small transactions that are being held up (the ones that DO show on blockchain.info but not my wallet) is this just a matter of time and a different pool picking up the smaller transactions and fees? For example, my oldest transaction is about 2BTC + fees and I've been waiting for at least a few hours now... it's right there on blockchain but it's just stuck as unconfirmed!?
Thanks again