Quote from: smtp on April 20, 2016, 10:53:40 PM

Still an appendix to your last please/question: Look at the
URL https://blockchain.info/tx/b92e377073088d714d0850d49116835f1ae8cdb9acb4be229faaeecde8fea5cc

Of course this is the finally accepted new TA which is now in the blockchain. The TA which was hanging for 48 hours (listed in blockchain.info's pool as unconfirmed transaction), had exactly the same structure. Only one txout-address was different and its value was not 9.9999 BTC, but exactly 5 BTC (and 130 BTC were reused and not 125 BTC by the same txin-address).

I hope this helps a bit.

The thing is that there is no longer a "standard fee" you can set or remember and always get a quick confirmation. Thats the reason newer versions of bitcoin core come with an algorithm to estimate a good fee for the current[1] state of the network. If you do not want to update for some reason at least check with pages like https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

[1] obviously this isnt entirely true, as the data will always be slightly outdated