Quote from: Veronica88 on May 27, 2017, 06:03:14 PM

Hey there,

I have a very annoying transaction ongoing, which hasn't been confirmed since 8 days.
Check: https://blockchain.info/de/tx/d1948980d9b968de591c9b2ade202cddc89357430f7ae18c6175e70b0a5a0c24

Now here comes the strange part. The transaction was sent on the 19th of this month. Yesterday, when I checked I noticed that the blockchain sais now sent on 24th.

So I am wondering if this is a method to hide the range of problems the network actually have. With this kind of editing, the stats about the average time transactions take until they get confirmed, are completely wrong.

Its only some thoughts about something I cannot really understand. Maybe some one here can explain why the date of a transaction can change afterwards...

Another thought was that transactions get automatically rebroadcasted after some days and that's what changes the date. This case would still come down to wrong statistics and hide the fact that single transactions could go through an infinite loop without getting confirmed.

They are not hiding anything, most likely your transaction was re-broadcasted to the network from your node or another node depending on what type of wallet are you using. That might be the reason why don't you see the actual date that it was sent.

Bitcoin is decentralized so devs are not really trying to hide anything here, everything is open. There is a known issue that people are looking to solve, the issue that bitcoin capacity is on its knees, it can't simply verify all of the transactions because it wasn't made for this at first, and 2nd it wasn't expected that the need will be now.

There are 2 main proposals to solve this issue: Bitcoin Unlimited and SegWit (search through furmu, or simply google it). Because there are to many unconfirmed transactions it requires you to put higher fee, as other people put higher fee. With the higher fee you will get confirmations faster, thats the only thing that you can do now until this get fixed in the future.

In the meantime you can try to use viabtc pools accelerator, they are a bitcoin mining pool that are trying to help users to push transactions, all you need to do here is to enter your transaction ID, when it is successful you need to wait for them to mine a block. https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/

Here you can see aprox. number of unconfirmed transactions https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions lets say that in one block there can be around 700-3000 transactions depending on the transactions sizes. At this moment size of all unconfirmed transactions is 114038.318 (KB), have in mind that blocks can be 1mb in size + that they come every 10minutes.