Topic: transaction that took too long, RESOLVED, thanks to everyobody for the support. (Read 6003 times)
November 20, 2013, 08:24:10 PM
19:23:25

getinfo
19:23:25

{
"version" : 80400,
"protocolversion" : 70001,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.03082213,
"blocks" : 270694,
"timeoffset" : 1,
"connections" : 81,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 609482679.88835454,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1372280961,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00010000,
"errors" : ""
}
November 20, 2013, 05:41:43 PM
guys do you want me to lock thiss topic?
November 20, 2013, 05:31:09 PM
I'm running Bitcoin-qt 0.8.4 on windows and I tried to send some bitcoin over 24 hours ago, it came up with a message about paying a fee of 0.0005 and I clicked yes but for some reason it only included 0.00006438 as the fee and now the transaction is stuck in limbo https://blockchain.info/tx/f1903e97d2c96e3bfb975dfa23a2c8de72c68df1e843db8c842a6c87bfdb32c9 is there anything I can do?
First given the title of this thread you might want to create a new thread. Technical support would be the appropriate forum.
Are you sure this is the tx you created? Is 1CLsCcmoiYJiYm7feS3pkpE6Ea94EEA4M5 your address? If so the simplest solution is just to wait. The reason I asked is there is a downstream tx so wanted to make sure we are looking at the tx you created not the tx which funded the tx you created.
It that is your tx, it does appear it sent it without a fee. Due to dust prevention the client will give the rounding error left over (below 5430 satoshis) when creating a tx to miners as a "fee" rather than create a dust output as change (which can't be spent) but 6438 is above the dust threshold so that is also confusing, I would expect instead to see 0 BTC as fee and the 6438 going to a change address. If all that was to technical yes this tx has no effective fee, any fee less than 0.1 mBTC per KB (so 0.5 mBTC in this case) is viewed by default nodes as no fee. It is strange the client would "ignore" the acceptance of the fee and even stranger it would send it at all because it appears to be a low priority tx and thus the "proper" fee of 0.5 mBTC would be mandatory to be relayed.
I got no explanation other than it is weird.
What client are you using? If it is the QT client can you go to the debug window and type
Code:
getinfo
look for the line "paytxfee" what does it say?
November 20, 2013, 05:25:19 PM
wait
November 20, 2013, 05:18:47 PM
I'm running Bitcoin-qt 0.8.4 on windows and I tried to send some bitcoin over 24 hours ago, it came up with a message about paying a fee of 0.0005 and I clicked yes but for some reason it only included 0.00006438 as the fee and now the transaction is stuck in limbo https://blockchain.info/tx/f1903e97d2c96e3bfb975dfa23a2c8de72c68df1e843db8c842a6c87bfdb32c9 is there anything I can do?
November 20, 2013, 10:44:45 AM
again and again thanks for everybodys helps .
November 20, 2013, 10:39:43 AM
done
November 20, 2013, 10:38:26 AM
I his defense I would have not come to his thread to help if he had not caught my eye with an interesting title. There are only so many hours in a day I can spend here and I cannot read every thread.
But, the title should be changed now.
But, the title should be changed now.
true
November 20, 2013, 08:55:38 AM
I his defense I would have not come to his thread to help if he had not caught my eye with an interesting title. There are only so many hours in a day I can spend here and I cannot read every thread.
But, the title should be changed now.
But, the title should be changed now.
November 20, 2013, 08:35:53 AM
btcfre@k:
I think what niothor is trying to say it that you should probably change the title of your thread. "thing that will kill bitcoin" is a bit inflamitory at this point, don't you think.
Perhaps you could come up with a new title now that things have worked out for you?
Burt
I think what niothor is trying to say it that you should probably change the title of your thread. "thing that will kill bitcoin" is a bit inflamitory at this point, don't you think.
Perhaps you could come up with a new title now that things have worked out for you?
Burt
Yeah I could have said it in another way , but seriously , bitcoin is getting killed at a rate of 10 threads /day lately.
November 20, 2013, 08:30:26 AM
btcfre@k:
I think what niothor is trying to say it that you should probably change the title of your thread. "thing that will kill bitcoin" is a bit inflamitory at this point, don't you think?
Perhaps you could come up with a new title now that things have worked out for you?
Burt
I think what niothor is trying to say it that you should probably change the title of your thread. "thing that will kill bitcoin" is a bit inflamitory at this point, don't you think?
Perhaps you could come up with a new title now that things have worked out for you?
Burt
November 20, 2013, 06:21:45 AM
this is the kind of thing that will kill bitcoin
You mean selfish people who refuse to pay a four-penny transaction fee? Nah, it'll just (hopefully) weed out selfish people who refuse to pay a four-penny transaction fee.
+1. He refused to pay 1 cent for transferring 1000 worth of dollars.
Read it all again.
So , you mean people not sure what they are doing and not reading before doing something will kill bitcoin?
I'm sure a cabbage seller entering a bank and demanding to wire them to Japan will destroy the banking system.
November 20, 2013, 05:36:23 AM
this is the kind of thing that will kill bitcoin
You mean selfish people who refuse to pay a four-penny transaction fee? Nah, it'll just (hopefully) weed out selfish people who refuse to pay a four-penny transaction fee.
+1. He refused to pay 1 cent for transferring 1000 worth of dollars.
November 20, 2013, 05:05:30 AM
this is the kind of thing that will kill bitcoin
You mean selfish people who refuse to pay a four-penny transaction fee? Nah, it'll just (hopefully) weed out selfish people who refuse to pay a four-penny transaction fee.
+1. He refused to pay 1 cent for transferring 1000 worth of dollars.
November 20, 2013, 05:01:57 AM
glad to hear it
November 20, 2013, 05:00:56 AM
guys i received my bitcoins.i want to says thank you very much for the support .this community is totally cool.thanks
November 19, 2013, 08:56:11 PM
its not like miners are really that profitable these days...a little cake would be nice
November 19, 2013, 08:54:20 PM
Agreed. I would strongly recommend paying the min fee on ALL transactions. Most wallets have the option to set a default fee. Set it to 0.1 mBTC and be done with it. Piuk indicated he will be improving blockchain wallet as the reality is tx volume is higher now and assumming a tx can get away with no fee just because it is high priority is no longer a good assumption. It WAS a good assumption in the past but it needs to change.
Clients do need to get smarter. I updated my post prior to seeing your response so we have some agreement on that. Remember Bitcoin is in beta and it is an experiment.
As a practical peice of advice to anyone reading.
Set your client to pay the min fee (0.1 mBTC per KB) for all transactions. Trying to send some free tx is bound to be a penny wise and pound foolish scenario.
Clients do need to get smarter. I updated my post prior to seeing your response so we have some agreement on that. Remember Bitcoin is in beta and it is an experiment.
As a practical peice of advice to anyone reading.
Set your client to pay the min fee (0.1 mBTC per KB) for all transactions. Trying to send some free tx is bound to be a penny wise and pound foolish scenario.
...this leads to another problem though. Cost. I'll quote: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cost-and-confirmation-time-of-bitcoin-transactions-339802:
"according to CoinMill - the cost of 1 BTC is currently 641.84 USD and a transaction fee of 0.0001 BTC is 0.06 USD (6 cents). 0.0005 (the old fee) is 30 cents. As Bitcoin appreciates (if it does), the cost of transactions relative to the value of a Bitcoin grows substantially.
This makes it pretty uneconomical for any merchant to engage in using Bitcoin as a currency as A) they'll be waiting ages for their transaction to confirm if the user incorrectly attaches an 'unacceptable' fee and B) the cost of moving BTC is likely to rapidly meet or exceed that of preexisting payment methods such as ACH, Debit and eventually Credit cards... and in the case of the latter two it doesn't generally take 24-48 hours to even acknowledge your transaction exists."
Miners want to have their cake and eat it. They want the reward from mining a block as well as only cherry picking the transactions that add additional gravy. This doesn't work for a payment network. If you want to move value around, there needs to be some reasonable expectation that the process will complete in a timely manner without a risk of significant delays. You can't "add a bit on" if you mess up and anyone downstream who includes your unconfirmed output is going to screw their transaction confirmation times over...
The min fee has been reduced 4 times since the inception of Bitcoin from 10 mBTC to 1 mBTC to 0.5 mBTC to 0.1mBTC. Miners can always require a higher fee but to date they really haven't.
If the exchange rate keeps rising it will probably be lowered again. In fiat terms is has ranged from ~1 cent to ~10 cents and usually when it gets to the high end the min fee gets cut.
November 19, 2013, 08:51:28 PM
who reveive the transaction fee?
People who mine the bitcoins or who?
Sorry for stupid question.
People who mine the bitcoins or who?
Sorry for stupid question.
yes, the miners, remember that the block reward decreases over time, eventually the TX fees will be the only pay the miners get
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November 19, 2013, 08:51:11 PM
who reveive the transaction fee?
People who mine the bitcoins or who?
Sorry for stupid question.
The fees go to the miners. People who mine the bitcoins or who?
Sorry for stupid question.
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