Quote from: btcgambler34 on March 27, 2017, 07:56:25 PM

Being a very active gambler i was usually pretty satisfied with btc. The stakes are higher then other sportsbook sites and i like the fact that i don't need any personal information. Well this all changed during recent events with the so called mempool. Just to make this clear, i have no idea how this all works and i don't care either,i just want it to work.

The problem with this is i play on various sites and most of the time i make last minute bets on games in different sports and the transactions have to be almost instant and be confirmed before the bets are being payed out to me again.

Most sites credit the btc after just 1 confirmation which by the looks of it is going to take hours again with almost 45.000 waiting transactions in the mempool. It happened before and it's happening again and it's time for me to say goodbye to bitcoin.

Any other people feeling the same like me who are tired of these slow confirmation like today?

what you say is a bit contradictory.
if you want the privacy and other things that using bitcoin offers you then you wouldn't have said what you just said.
then if you are gambling and are in fact good at it, paying $0.41 is not really something that you even consider "high" or big enough for you to create a topic and talk about "leaving bitcoin"!

also you keep repeating "I am not tech savvy"! you don't need to be. just use a proper wallet that suggests fees properly. bitcoin core as a full verifying wallet and Electrum as an SPV wallet and blockchain.info as a web wallet do this properly. you don't have to know anything, they suggest best fees in a very newbie friendly GUI and you just click send.
I use Electrum so I am talking with 100% confidence that the fee it suggests as high (currently ~200 s/b or ~0.0004BTC for a normal tx equal to ~41 cents) is a good fee.

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Quote from: Amph on March 28, 2017, 05:52:55 AM

if he play on various site and need to make many transaction, can result in his profit getting killed, not really a great suggestion, we can't always say that the problem lie in the user not paying more

if 40-50 cents per tx (per bet) is killing his profit then maybe it is best he stops gambling.

p.s we all know about the problem and the spam attack and the increasing fee and the fee war but there is no need to make a new account just to say "this was my last btc transaction" and make more drama in this board as you can see from all the previous comments.