I tried to send an Ethereum transaction using
https://www.myetherwallet.com/ over 40 days ago. I used a very low fee and seems it was not nearly enough. The transaction is now stuck and says pending. It doesnt look like it will be dropped and I am not sure what to do.
I tried to speed it up by adding more gas through Metamask but every time I do that I get an error in MEW and it fails. I read somewhere that I need to spend the same nonce with more gas for the transaction to be confirmed. I have no idea how to do that. Can someone help?
Has anyone faced similar issues wit stuck Eth transactions that couldnt be spent and how do I solve this?
What is going on with the fees and why is an ETH transaction more expensive than a Bitcoin transaction?
This has happened to a lot of people, and it keeps happening. If you don’t want to be experiencing problems like this, the best thing you should do is use fees that are enough to get that transaction confirmed. For example if you’re making use of the Blockchain wallet, when sending your ETH, you will see the fees are divided into about four or three types, there is the lower transaction fee, the priority, and the custom fee.
If you use the custom, it is going to let you set a custom fee, but I don’t make use of custom fees, I just use the regular and priority; priority is for when I’m in a hurry to send the money and regular is for when I am not in a hurry. If the fees are too high for you, that’s because the network is kind of too much occupied, you can leave it and try later. One thing with your transaction getting stuck is that you won’t be able to send another transaction since ETH has what is called nonce to help avoid double spending.
As for how you can fix this, you said it’s been fourth days, so if you check MetaMask the – speed up – button might have appeared by now, when you click the speed up button you can resubmit the transaction with higher gas fee for it to be confirmed. But you can also cancel it if that’s not working for you. There is a blog on ETHGasStation.info that explains this, you send 0.00 ETH with same nonce and the 0.00 ETH gets confirmed and the old gets cancelled.