I need to see the transaction to make a fair judgement to be completely honest.

Based on a very, very general and abstract guess, I would assume that the only issues with the network that you could be experiencing right now are either having a really low (or potentially non-existent) fee, or the confirmations were just having really wild timing. A lot of my transactions don't even start to get confirmations for about 30 minutes, and then it takes at least an hour to get 3-4. This has been the same since I started using Bitcoin to be entirely fair.

No fork doesn't have any direct impact on bitcoin transactions but after split on august many miners have shifted towards bitcoin cash mining from bitcoin. Mining difficulty is adjusted at certain time and it happened few days ago when there was lots of miner for bitcoin so difficulty was quite high but after adjustment many miners have left mining bitcoin and start mining bitcoincash because it is profitable, thats why right now because of less miners and high difficulty blocks are being mined in more than 10 minutes that is causing congestion on bitcoin network.

This will be solved on next difficulty adjustment...

This chart shows changes in mining difficulty for bitcoin over time https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

I actually have been having the same problems as you man, and it really is irritating and testing my patience. Specially now that i need it as soon as possible. I really don't know the reason why this is happening. But a friend of mine told me that the reasons maybe the slow internet connection(which is pretty common here in my olace), spams in the network that people who are trying to take advantage of the current split are doing or choosing low fee transactions. So maby one of those is really the reason for this problem. I just hope this gets fixed soon.

I think the first question here is how much are you willing to pay for your transactions to the miners. You know the game of transactions, the bigger the fee, the faster the confirmation. Maybe just follow the suggested fee of your wallet to not experience any problems . And  I think it has nothing to do with the fork but the fee because this is a problem even before the fork happened.

It's definitely not because of you having slow connection. One of the biggest reasons is because the network couldn't handle the influx of transactions that's coming through. Miners are currently in a sort of "see-saw" between BTC and BCC/BCH since mining profitability is shifting, hence the miners are going back and forth between BTC and BCC/BCH. Fewer miners = fewer blocks that's being mined.

Currently we have a total of 86868 unconfirmed transactions, yep.  

what is your problem exactly?
is it the fact that your transaction was confirmed after a long time?
or is it the fact that it had 3 confirmation after a long time?

the first one can be because of low fee, high number of unconfirmed transactions, full blocks, miners finding blocks with a delay (maybe a lower hashrate issue), and also some miners finding empty blocks.

but the first one has only 1 reason, and that is miners aren't finding blocks. and that is a difficulty thing, and it is common from time to time when there is a bigger gap between the blocks that are being found so your see 3 confirmation after an hour for example instead of half an hour!

No doubt, I have used their service before and was able to get confirmations and good thing it is for free. But as you have mentioned, they only accepts first 100 users so you have to wait before getting your transaction to be confirmation. But it really works.


I think Antpool is mining empty blocks that's why the network is congested. I don't know what they don't mine using Segwit software as it was agreed up and it seems that they are doing is on purpose. On the other hand they are losing $100K for not mining Segwit transaction. We may never know the real reason behind why they are acting like this.

Sometimes even me also like that and when i check the blockchain record there so many adresses fall in line waiting for a confirmation somatimes fast and sometimes also too slow its because a lot of people withdrawing there bitcoins and transfer to there own wallet

Because there are a lot more of users that can pay more for their bitcoin to be transacted. There are some individuals that are always pissed with how the confirmations go but I think it is just how they handle the transaction. If they will be just paying a good fee for their transaction, there will be no problem.