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Topic
Board Electrum
Re: Very Urgent - PENDING transaction for days
by
HCP
on 11/05/2017, 23:50:29 UTC
Nothing is solved. Even one (out of two) outgoing transactions i did AFTER the upgrade is still not completed. I am being seriously worried now because on my bitcoin activity depends my entire income. I also have some bills to pay. Here is the screenshot from disaster that is happening (in case if any particular info needed, let me know what and where to get it and i will definitely provide it):

https://s1.postimg.org/es57nmlxr/btc.jpg
Upgrading your wallet isn't going to magically make all your transactions confirm... and making more transactions that are spending unconfirmed transaction outputs is just making things worse. You see how you had all the "unconfirmed parent" transactions? That is basically the chain of unconfirmed transactions you have made... it is like digging yourself into a hole... and then digging further and further...

I don't have time anymore to wait. Also when trying to find a solution on that problem on my own I saw some post someone saying that NO new transactions should be done until everything is confirmed/refunded (no pendings). It is simply too urgent for me and it is my only available source of bitcoins, very few ones (i only have like 0.045). I don't have any other source such as localbitcoins or wherever online balance is containing bitcoins. This (problem shown by me on screenshot in one of my previous messages) should be solved now.
If you didn't have time anymore to wait, you shouldn't have sent transactions with such low fees. Additionally, by continuing to send coins, using outputs from unconfirmed transactions, you are just making the situation worse.

And now I suspect you have transactions like these two:

https://blockchain.info/tx/367e10a58f3595e86c716c6338efc6a2ba3e707dc956ef50de1b87ff354a5ef4
https://blockchain.info/tx/87a2f637497b927b2e33e774b47671c3f66fdc40274c50d3c6c16c0498690507

which both use fees of around 20 sats/byte... which are now the unconfirmed txes that are blocking :

https://blockchain.info/tx/6896a440fed57e8897f19c94d17f38006c6c7a8e6ceea7589e11f7e061a85afa

which is blocking:

https://blockchain.info/tx/f3ce6ae839a3fede597175e16a828a5cc90e178f72e9baf58b8c2c43cbf54bbf

If your "bitcoin activity depends my entire income", you had better learn how the bitcoin network actually works and how to use appropriate fees... I would also recommend that you stop sending long chains of unconfirmed transactions...

In the future, make sure you use "Dynamic Fees" and ensure you have enabled "Replace-By-Fee"...  that way you might be able to bump the fees of stuck transactions to try and get them confirmed faster.