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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: Nitcoin transaction pending for 5+ days
by
macson
on 08/09/2023, 11:31:03 UTC
i also had a transaction that was stuck a few days ago and it was quite frustrating, i used Safepal Wallet and chose the lowest fee but it was really unlucky, the fee increased drastically and my transaction couldn't be processed quickly, i just used this as a good experience bad lol.

Your transaction doesn't have a replace by fee enabled, that means it will be impossible to bump the fee or for a child to pay for parent, by this you cannot do anything rather than to wait. Even the sender cannot do anything at this point, if the fee comes lower, it will confirm but I doubt if that will happen as today is just Monday(busy day), maybe you should wait if the mempool will be lower by the weekend.

Even with replace by fee disabled (RBF) you can use Child Pays For Parent (CPFP).

You can do it in basically any wallet. just spend the coins and use a high fee (about 26 sat/vbyte in time of writing)
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To get your transaction confirmed quicker, you will need to increase its effective feerate.

If your transaction was created with RBF enabled, your stuck transaction can simply be replaced with a new one that has a higher fee.

Otherwise, if you control any of the stuck transaction's outputs, you can use CPFP to increase your stuck transaction's effective feerate.

If you are not sure how to do RBF or CPFP, work with the tool you used to make the transaction (wallet software, exchange company, etc). This website only provides data about the Bitcoin network, so there is nothing it can do to help you get your transaction confirmed quicker.
[1] https://mempool.space/docs/faq#how-to-get-transaction-confirmed-quickly

i just read about RBF or CPFP in the article above and don't really understand the process, maybe I'll try it next week.