Hello
I have a question about transaction fees. I think I did a transaction for which the transaction fee was lower than the Low Prio fee (mempool.space). It is now +/- $15 and I think I payed +/- $10. That amount was suggested by my app and I accepted it blindly. I did not expect it to be so low. Anyway, the question I have is, what will now happen with that transaction. Is my btc lost in transit forever?
Unfortunate, in my app I don't have the possibility to bump the fee
One final question. As the fee is expressed in sats/vb. How do I know how many vbytes my transaction is?
Hey there. It won't be lost in transit forever, don't worry about that. $10 isn't nothing, it's just well below the current average of over $35. I had such an issue a couple of times when I mismatched the fee significantly, and the transaction got stuck. It will get through eventually. The average fee was $10 just a few days ago, and the spikes seem to come and go pretty quickly. You can wait it out, maybe it'll take a day or a few days. But the funds won't be lost this way, they'll just take much longer to go through the system. You can monitor the fees to get an idea of where it's going, and then you can expect your transaction to finally make it. If you can increase the fee, you can try that, as bitmover pointed out.