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Board Electrum
Merits 5 from 1 user
Re: How accurate is the fee estimation in Electrum?
by
HCP
on 23/09/2020, 06:54:08 UTC
⭐ Merited by Abdussamad (5)
But the good news is, the site I sent it to credited my account, even though the transaction came in very late. So, everything went well in the end.
Generally, most of the payment processors, they only care that a valid transaction was broadcast to the network within the timeframe that they show the invoice as being "valid"... They will generally just not process your order or credit your account until that transaction is actually confirmed.

Any service that issues an invoice for say "30 minutes" and expects that a user can guarantee confirmation in that time frame (regardless of fee paid) is asking for trouble. As you saw, there can indeed be time periods where a block is not found for over an hour!

Sometimes, miners are just "unlucky" Tongue