Deposited 250 in btc to Fairlay at 11:44 & Nothing yet.

MeanPeopleSuck · 06-25-17, 03:32 PM

Originally posted by Johnnythunder

Not even a single confirmation. How long does this typically take?

Confirmations can take anywhere from minutes to hours to (rarely) days. The speed's dependent on the congestion of the blockchain and the fees you or your wallet included with your transaction. If you want fast confirmations, this site's awesome: http://bitcoinfees.21.co/

As a general rule, 400 satoshis per byte should get you fast confirmations (a satoshi is the 8th decimal place of a bitcoin). 200 sats per byte usually gets confirmations in an hour. Less than that and you can get 'stuck' for hours or days.

If your wallet's choosing your fees and doing a crummy job of it, you might want to consider opening a wallet at a place where you can pick the fees yourself. Blockchain.info is a place like that.

littlekona · 06-25-17, 04:23 PM

put the transaction if here see what it says, it's not a fairlay issue as they credit as soon as 1 confirmation I did two this morning took 15 mins to confirm and credit. Put transactions here https://www.blockonomics.co/

Johnnythunder · 06-25-17, 07:16 PM

Yup...not just fairlay...sent 300 to Nitrogen 3 hrs ago & not one confirmation either. Paid the lowest fees (17 cents or so). Had no idea it would take this long. Used to be quick.

themike78 · 06-26-17, 10:42 AM

Bitcoin sucks. It's quicker to do money transfer. That's what I've been using lately.

littlekona · 06-26-17, 01:05 PM

[QUOTE=Johnnythunder;27050273]Yup...not just fairlay...sent 300 to Nitrogen 3 hrs ago & not one confirmation either. Paid the lowest fees (17 cents or so). Had no idea it would take this long. Used to be quick.[/QUOTE

17 cents miners fee on 300$ will take like 3 days and maybe never...thats just way to low you need like $1.80 or so for 20 mins or faster....what did blockonomics link i sent say ?

Johnnythunder · 06-26-17, 01:14 PM

What are you talking about...they both came in later in the evening.

[QUOTE=littlekona;27051290]

Originally posted by Johnnythunder

Yup...not just fairlay...sent 300 to Nitrogen 3 hrs ago & not one confirmation either. Paid the lowest fees (17 cents or so). Had no idea it would take this long. Used to be quick.[/QUOTE

17 cents miners fee on 300$ will take like 3 days and maybe never...thats just way to low you need like $1.80 or so for 20 mins or faster....what did blockonomics link i sent say ?

littlekona · 06-26-17, 02:29 PM

[QUOTE=Johnnythunder;27051300]What are you talking about...they both came in later in the evening.

you are very lucky that the blockchain is not overwhelmed and not many unconfirmed transactions or it would of taken much more time or possibly even returned

MeanPeopleSuck · 06-26-17, 07:44 PM

Originally posted by Johnnythunder

Yup...not just fairlay...sent 300 to Nitrogen 3 hrs ago & not one confirmation either. Paid the lowest fees (17 cents or so). Had no idea it would take this long. Used to be quick.

Yeah, since you've been away, BTC's had ever increasing scalability problems that have caused increasing wait times and higher fees. Trying to solve those problems has just created more problems by igniting a a civil war within the Bitcoin community: Bitcoin Unlimited supporters (including me) vs SegWit2x supporters vs BIP148 fans.

It's chaos, and it's going to get worse before it gets better. August 1st might be Doomsday: https://coinjournal.net/bitcoin-now-...d-chain-split/