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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: transaction unconfirmed
by
maxttilt
on 20/05/2020, 17:49:51 UTC
Hi, im supposed to receive a BTC transaction but its been 2 days and still unconfirmed. Would appreciate some help in figuring out why please.

That transaction pays a really small fee compared to other transactions which are currently in the mempool. It pays 19 sat/byte fee while ~170 sat/byte is required to get a transaction confirmed in a few blocks. You can wait or ask the sender to bump the fee if transaction was marked as replaceable or use CPFP (spend those coins with a fee higher than 170 sat/byte). I have linked you a guide for Electrum, but it should be possible in most wallets too. What wallet are you using?


so its really a matter of fees.
so it will v likely get confirmed in a couple of days or else it will be reversed?