Bitcoin payout zero confirmations for 7 hours

[Shifty]

A little help please from any Bitcoin sharps. Is the network that jammed today? Anyone else having issues? Transaction has been unconfirmed for 7 hours. Also has unconfirmed inputs.

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/...214a93ccfbc17/

[Optional]

The fee was 44 satoshi per byte, when optimal is about 70 right now.

But that is not super low, nor is the network badly clogged. So I am not sure, but you are the second person to ask similar question I have answered the same way today, so maybe there is something I am missing

It looks like it's been confirmed now anyway

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/fc77637ca6fda6f5a83288aa4e5db29716a6bf57c619a4b66ef214a93ccfbc17

[henningts]

Maybe it is/was a "parent" and the transaction in front of it has an even lower fee. Happens sometimes.

[Shifty]

Got confirmed after 10 hours. It's all good, nice BTC rally overnight.

[mrpapageorgio]

There is a large backlog of transactions, but it's not record high yet (it was around 100k iirc for the record).