Quote from: jamie1029 on January 02, 2018, 11:06:16 PM

Quote from: veleten on January 02, 2018, 07:23:48 AM

exorbitantly high fees affect all of the gamblers
whales or not,it is not very pleasant to send 30$ just to confirm your transfer
and it has been like that for quite a while,when you have to splash out 200k fees or even more
doesn't matter if you are rich or not
I have been waiting for the deposit to clear for 20+ days now,granted it was sent with a very low fee
but 20 odd days is retarded,I don't mind to wait,but not this much

If the fee was too low, it might never confirm. If you are in this situation you really only have two options:
- Broadcast a replace by fee transaction.
- Broadcast a new transaction with the same hash but with a higher fee (i.e. double spend)

Theoretically the protocol will drop the tx from the mempool after 72 hours, however there is nothing to stop a node from rebroadcasting it continuously, this could leave the tx in the global mempool forever. This article is a tutorial on what you may need to do:

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@profitgenerator/tutorial-how-to-fix-unconfirmed-transactions

I can't wait until we get Lightning Network and all of these Bitcoin casinos get instant, free transactions (or almost instant & free) and we don't need to wait this long going forward.

I don't see how these companies can stay in business with fees this high.