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I received a payment from a client and it has almost been 24 hours and i still got 0 confirmations

Can someone help me or push the transaction or something?

https://blockchain.info/tx/2c8155add6c14681a8d8d6b551b33b22f82769ebbf0d24491c1a42d7917ec3d5
There is nothing you can do to speed up the procces, next time ask the sender to pay a higher fee so the transaction will confirm faster. You can read this, it is a very good explaination on the question u asked: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9046/why-is-my-transaction-not-getting-confirmed-and-what-can-i-do-about-it

agree with, if i take a look in the transaction, sender is using the fee in less than 0.0005 btc because i think if the sender wants to send the amount of bitcoin, then he can used minimal fee like more than 0.0005 btc or 0.0005 btc so the transaction can get fast confirming although its not really fast but at least you can receive in your wallet in about 1-2 hours. next time, please double check the fees so you don't have this experience in future.
legendary
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but will it get confirmed anytime?

That is currently impossible to predict, but it is unlikely.

You have a few problems.

First, the sender used unconfirmed bitcoins when he sent you that transaction.  He spent bitcoins that he received in UNCONFIRMED transaction:
27f39a7bda243532aa2dfb66568aa31ea8808cb92f4a1e6324c79aebd028e6a8

It is impossible for your transaction to confirm until this earlier transaction confirms, and the transaction only pays a transaction-fee of 105 BTC per byte, so it won't confirm very quickly.

Second, that earlier transaction has a competing transaction that spends the SAME bitcoins (often called a "double-spend attempt" or "double-spend attack").  The other transaction:
a43fc9d7530d5a5c6d5d58c27fb0b47c96d98f343f8227209029b39cddc41fed

This other transaction ALSO pays a transaction-fee of 105 BTC per byte.  Only ONE of those two competing transactions can confirm.  If the transaction that funds your transaction (the one that starts with 27f39a7...) confirms, then there is a chance your transaction can confirm after that. If the other transaction (the one that starts with a43fc9...) confirms, then your transaction will become invalid and will disappear forever.

It is going to take a long time for either of those competing transactions to confirm, so it will take a long time for you to find out if your transaction will make it or not.  The reason that it will take a long time is that both of those competing transactions spend unconfirmed bitcoins.  They are both funded with bitcoins that were received in this even earlier UNCONFIRMED transaction:
bf0383ccac311c87cfa4491e772236b0b61efe48f15d38de4d69679eb0dd0639

It is impossible for either of the competing transactions to confirm until this even earlier transaction confirms.

This earlier transaction ALSO has a competing transaction:
901bb453009d35943c4edbb7cb60e867c984eb247bee744d4fdff56a43ed8387

Only ONE of those two competing transactions can confirm.  If the transaction that starts with bf0383... confirms, then there is a chance your transaction can confirm after that. If the other transaction (the one that starts with 901bb4...) confirms, then your transaction will become invalid and will disappear forever.

It is going to take a long time for either of those competing transactions to confirm, so it will take a long time for you to find out if your transaction will make it or not.  The reason that it will take a long time is that both of those competing transactions spend unconfirmed bitcoins.  They are both funded with bitcoins that were received in this even earlier UNCONFIRMED transaction:
6109399a5cc0a3cfc9ab84187cc8eb16a998a888794d50c21e5877adf3d3d5ba

So, as you can see, you need several earlier transactions to confirm before your transaction can ever confirm, AND in two of those earlier cases there is a competing transaction that will render your transaction INVALID if the wrong transaction confirms.  As such, I'd estimate less than a 25% chance that your transaction will ever confirm, and even if it does it will take a long time.

Perhaps you should talk to whomever spent unconfirmed bitcoins in the transaction that they sent you and explain to them that you don't appreciate it and that you refuse to engage in transactions with them in the future until they learn how to only spend confirmed bitcoins, or at least until they learn how to send transactions that are very likely to confirm (Reasonable fee on all unconfirmed transactions, and no competing transactions)


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Your transaction spends from a chain of unconfirmed transactions. It spends from https://blockchain.info/tx/27f39a7bda243532aa2dfb66568aa31ea8808cb92f4a1e6324c79aebd028e6a8 which spends from https://blockchain.info/tx/bf0383ccac311c87cfa4491e772236b0b61efe48f15d38de4d69679eb0dd0639 which spends from https://blockchain.info/tx/6109399a5cc0a3cfc9ab84187cc8eb16a998a888794d50c21e5877adf3d3d5ba. Your transaction cannot confirm until these three transactions confirm as well. However, all of these transactions pay a low transaction fee, only 105 sat/byte whereas the current recommended transaction fee is 240 sat/byte according to https://bitcoinfees.21.co/. Furthermore, two of those transactions have been double spent so if the double spending transaction confirms, then that transaction cannot ever confirm and nor will yours be able to confirm.

If these three transactions are not yours, there is nothing you can do except to ask miners for help and wait.
newbie
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I received a payment from a client and it has almost been 24 hours and i still got 0 confirmations

Can someone help me or push the transaction or something?

https://blockchain.info/tx/2c8155add6c14681a8d8d6b551b33b22f82769ebbf0d24491c1a42d7917ec3d5
There is nothing you can do to speed up the procces, next time ask the sender to pay a higher fee so the transaction will confirm faster. You can read this, it is a very good explaination on the question u asked: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9046/why-is-my-transaction-not-getting-confirmed-and-what-can-i-do-about-it

but will it get confirmed anytime?
legendary
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I received a payment from a client and it has almost been 24 hours and i still got 0 confirmations

Can someone help me or push the transaction or something?

https://blockchain.info/tx/2c8155add6c14681a8d8d6b551b33b22f82769ebbf0d24491c1a42d7917ec3d5
There is nothing you can do to speed up the procces, next time ask the sender to pay a higher fee so the transaction will confirm faster. You can read this, it is a very good explaination on the question u asked: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9046/why-is-my-transaction-not-getting-confirmed-and-what-can-i-do-about-it
newbie
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I received a payment from a client and it has almost been 24 hours and i still got 0 confirmations

Can someone help me or push the transaction or something?

https://blockchain.info/tx/2c8155add6c14681a8d8d6b551b33b22f82769ebbf0d24491c1a42d7917ec3d5
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