Quote from: burfy174 on May 27, 2017, 11:27:05 PM

Firstly, this link i posted was for a transaction after I sent the original one to localbitcoins.... I'm assuming its been setup by them to return the bitcoin as it couldn't clear.

No, they don't send anything back... what happens is that if you transaction takes too long to confirm the network will just drop your transaction and it will be like it never existed. This used to take around 72 hours, but because of the massive transaction backlog these days of around 150,000+ unconfirmed transactions, it can now be as long as 14 days! Shocked

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Yes it say's 5 days ago......but here is some of the script when I emailed them regarding why the transaction was taking so long.
The link I posted above is the only info that I can find in my multibit account regarding outgoing transfers.

Your wallet has probably rebroadcast the transaction after it dropped. This is why it looks like it was only sent a couple of days ago. To prevent this reoccuring, you need to shut multbit down and don't open it again until the transaction has confirmed!

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I'm extremely puzzled by how all this works, but hopefully by setting my fee default to medium rather than low i won't encounter this situation again......

Unfortunately, multibit Classic is very old, outdated and no longer supported by the developers who wrote it. The fee levels that are hardcoded into the application no longer match the current environment. Even if you used the highest setting, it would probably not match the recommended fees and your transaction(s) will get stuck Sad

You need to move to a different wallet. I would suggest Electrum, it is actively developed and maintained and has a "Dynamic Fees" system which automatically adjusts to the network to help prevent stuck transactions.

Your transaction only has a fee of ~14 sats/byte... The current recommended fees are much higher:

Quote from: https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

The fastest and cheapest transaction fee is currently 330 satoshis/byte

Quote from: https://btc.com/stats/unconfirmed-tx

The current best transaction fees 246 Satoshis/byte | 0.00246 BTC/KB

So you have a couple of options:

1. Do nothing... your transaction will either confirm (VERY unlikely) or it will get dropped again.

2. Goto this link: http://www.mocacinno.com/feecheck.php?txid=9f68e4e761077ce77b1d3d59033e1f0985d235be09b69385465f1eee8a874ab2

It has a number of options available to you for getting your transaction confirmed (both free and paid options). I would recommend the ViaBTC TX Accelerator. It is very busy, so you'll probably have to try several times to get it to work.

Whatever route you go, I suggest you stop using MultiBit Classic and switch to another wallet (Don't use MultiBit HD tho, it has a serious bug at the moment)... otherwise your transactions will continue to get stuck.