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Re: Is Blockchain.info proving to be completely incompetent?
by
dooglus
on 21/03/2014, 19:45:08 UTC
Transactions are still taking forever to show a single confirmation, while other block services are showing 6+ confirmations.

What is the issue here?

* transactions made from the blockchain.info wallet are taking a long time to confirm

or

* confirmed transactions are taking a long time to be shown on blockchain.info

or

* something else

?

For a very long time now I've been annoyed by blockchain.info's tendency to fail to show some unconfirmed transactions at all.  I make a transaction to someone, they complain that "it didn't come", I check and every node I look at has the transaction in their mempool, but blockchain.info's website doesn't seem to know about it.  I then use https://blockchain.info/pushtx to manually tell them about it, and it shows up.  Or I wait, and it shows up once it is in a block.

This happens quite regularly, to maybe 1% of the transactions I make.

I don't understand how a site as well connected as blockchain.info can miss so many transactions as they bounce around the network.