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Re: 8sat/byte Fee taking a while
by
squatter
on 11/09/2018, 22:55:31 UTC
I thought I put a high enough fee in my transaction. It was at the lower end of the economic option, I use mycelium as my wallet. It thought it would take about an hour.

I think my wallet has rebroadcasted the transaction.

Can anyone help please?

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I originally sent the transaction about 2 hours ago.

There was a backlog over the past several hours. It doesn't help that there were only 6-7 blocks mined in the last 2 hours. I needed confirmation in the next block just now and sent a transaction for 12 satoshi/byte -- much higher than I normally spend. You'll probably get confirmed in the next couple hours.

Does Mycelium support opt-in RBF? If not, you might consider switching to another wallet that does, like Electrum. I always make my transactions replaceable in case of unexpected backlogs.