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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: 173000 unconfirmed transactions, 13 transactions per second
by
Matias
on 15/11/2017, 13:31:48 UTC
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

With absolute maximum on 7 transactions per second and in practice less than 4, and new transmissions coming in 13/second, how can this backlog ever be processed?

its a basic queueing system
so all transactions will be processed with time

 


Not necessarily. Mempools don't have unlimited capacity and also there is transaction expired by timeout (by default 14 days after entering).

So in practice, if your transaction is not processed in 14 days, it will never be processed.