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Re: How long will this take?
by
BrewMaster
on 03/09/2018, 15:57:42 UTC
I sent this transaction through Cryptopia and never had a situation where its been 2 hours+ with 0 confirmations: https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/eb729f004143ad3a03288163ba957b1a8bcfb7c65c804a5da646a040c2a6594d/

Any insight would be appreciated.

 Wow you really chintzed out on the fees - <4 Sats/B is pretty low which is probably why it took 106 minutes.

Use this for an estimate of fees if you need a tx to go through quickly: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

15 to 16 sats/B would have probably included your tx in the very next block.


that website is terrible for fee estimation. they basically predict the best fee then add a percentage to it so they tell you a higher fee so that if you checked their site and chose a fee you would be 100% among the high paying fees (high priority). but that will also increase the competitive fee and that is not good for the network!

suggest either one of these two:
https://coinb.in/#fees
https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h
they are better. the first one is even fun to use, people may learn a thing or two about transactions and how the size thing works.