Another post from someone who has used bitcoin forever,
but doesn't even know the most basic parts of the system.
I'll bet this person paid little to no fee.
There have been five blocks found since the OP created this thread.
If he isn't in a block yet, then there is no fee attached.
I said in the original post that I give a fee, so yes, I do know that you have to use fees for miners to bother with your transaction, don't jump to conclusions!
What kind of fees are you using?
Personally, I haven't had any troubles getting my transactions confirmed in the first block after my transaction with the regular recommended fee of 10k satoshi. Are you sure it takes multiple blocks and it is not just the time it takes to find a block that is longer by chance?
If you are using sufficient fees there should be no reason for your transactions to take a long time to get included.
I also use a 10K Satoshi fee.
Are you willing provide the Tx ID of the transaction, so that we may see why you are having a delay?
It is possible you paid an appropriate fee, but the total size of your tx was much larger, thus needing a larger fee.
What was the data size of your tx?
No problem.
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/04f86b00ab6496957e35cb4b23e4bfd728954c2786b2f228069d3262d88e413cMaybe the transaction time issues are on my end and not on Bitcoin, but I honestly don't see any problems. Once my transactions get 1 confirmation, they start gaining more very quickly.
Yes. After review, the issue was that you needed to pay a higher fee because blocks were full at the time.
I apologize for accusing you of paying too little and not knowing what you are doing.
Just a few more satoshis in your fee and you would have been picked up faster.
What I do is I always check the current status of the mempool, before sending any txs.
Sometimes I can send with 10k no problem, other times there is a bottle neck and I need to send 15k to 30K Satos.
These are the site I use to check mempool and fee estimates:
https://bitcoinfees.21.co/#delayhttps://bitcoinfees.github.io/https://tradeblock.com/bitcoin/These sites should help you determine a more appropriate fee in the event of a bottleneck.
