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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: What's wrong with my transaction? Paid 1700$ in fees, unconfirmed since hours
by
pskcla
on 20/12/2017, 18:35:07 UTC
Your fee is 271.385 sat/B - this is very low since the network is congested.

Do you own the sending and receiving addresses?
unfortunately not, they were sent from an exchange. And they are unresponsive :/

So there is no way I can rebroadcast the transaction or bump fees etc.

I can only wait and hope, right :/

or is there any way to speed this up?

I am very disappointed and for sure will not use Bitcoin anymore until this problem is fixed. Honestly - 1.700$ in fees and still not enough? I go to Western Union or do a cheap SWIFT transfer for 25$.

I praise Bitcoin for its protocol and decentralized network, but this is not usable/acceptable for anybody.