The biggest concern with bitcoin is that you can't really use it for anything except for saving your money in an exchange. Transfer fees are absurd currently and same is for the transfer speed.

How much segwit is supposed to accelerate transfers/sec? And how much does lightning network add? I think bitcoin is in very bad spot currently. Competition has surpassed bitcoin with their easy usage and reasonable transfer time/cost. I think bitcoin might start to decline compared to alternative coins, if these implementations wont deliver enough. These things must be delivered in a quite rapid schedule or companies will start to stop using bitcoins. Anyway this will be a very interesting year.

Ps. Don't but all of your eggs in one basket

At least for now, it's the first second. Tried to get my transfer through for three days, every time putting the input exactly when the clock turns to full hour.

Like the topic says I have unconfirmed transaction and I just can't wait for it to transfer anymore. So is it safe to make another transfer while I have that old still in the loop? My wallet is Multibit 0.5.15 and I'm afraid of upgrading it while this unconfirmed transfer hasn't arrived because I don't want to get in to any more trouble than I already am. Does it matter which wallet do you have if your transferfee is correct?

Can you please help me? Stuck for days TX: 705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216

Thank you

Hey man! Could you please help me? I've been stuck for 4 days.

TX: 705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216


Edit: You should definitely add another wallet for donations (etherium for example). I would gladly send you some other form of currency with lower transfer fees and more reliable transfer, if you can accelerate this.

Huge transfer fees, slow and stuck transfers will no doubt have their effect on bitcoin. How will people use bitcoin when transfer fees are more than the transferred amount? How will masses react when there will be news that bitcoin delays are days and you can't get anything through unless you pay 60$? What will people do when there are more and more unconfirmed transactions? Think someone who is first time using bitcoin and their transaction gets stuck. Do they want to use that currency again? I don't think many investor will keep bitcoin as a reliable investment when only thing you can do with it is to trade. I think that many (myself included) will want to shift their focus to alternative, more reliable options. Decentralized currency? I think not.  Bitcoin has lost it's roots. All the power is in the huge mining pools, which will move your BTC if you're willing to pay a big chunk of money. I used to love bitcoin because it was the opposite of Paypal and bank conglomerates. Now I think that it is more and more like them: centralised power within the few and only serving the rich. 

Maybe pools should try to push more of those "not so profitable transactions" in order to keep transaction fees more reasonable. That would help keeping BTC more reasonable choice - for everyone. I think that could end up making more profit for the miners - in the long run. I understand why miners increase transfer fees. We all are here to make some cash. But is it really for the miners benefit if bitcoin will sink simply because it is unusable?

Lastly I would like to tell a bit about my own experiences with my recent event with bitcoin. I tried to transfer a small amount of coins to coinbase first time in 3,5 years. It got stuck and it has been stuck for 4 days now. I've tried to use all of those free acceleration services with no avail. My economical situation ain't very good at the moment and I definitely don't want to pay 20% transfer fee. Bitcoin didn't use to be this way.

Even if I am criticising bitcoin quite a lot, I wish the best for all of you miners. My idea is not to start flame war or anything like that. I simply want to express my own thoughts about bitcoin and how it currently stands. I hope we can have a good quality conversation about this topic

Cheers

Is there a way to cancel this transaction or do anything else besides pay for acceleration and hope for the best? ViaBTC is always full and antpool has had my acceleration for 24h so I don't think these accelerators are any kind of answer here. I'm currently in a very bad economical situation and I can't really pay for anyone to accelerate this (over 60$ is kinda lot for an acceleration).

Sorry I don't really follow what you're saying mate.

Thanks for the input guys. I should have mentioned about trying to use Via for almost three days with no luck whatsoever so I'm kind of tired trying to hit exact hour with this service.

First of all I'd like to thank all those people here helping people out in their time of need. I really appreciate it 

But lets get to the point: I tried to send (3. January 2018) 0,03 BTC to coinbase from my old multibit (version 0.5.15) wallet. My transfer fee was a bit low 0,0001BTC (44 sat/B). Last night I registered to antpool and used their accelerator successfully but in the end it seems like it didn't do any good.
TX: 705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216

https://blockexplorer.com/tx/705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216
https://blockchain.info/tx-index/705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216
https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216
https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216/
https://btc.com/705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216

Why does it show that transaction amount is 0,044 btc? It's like there is a two transfers and 0,014 part is addressed to my wallet. Is it possible that there is some transfer from 2014 that I didn't receive back then? I used to mine in 2013/2014 and my wallet is from that time. I'm also worried to upgrade my wallet before that transfer is concluded. One thing that I noticed is that blockcypher shows confidence of 80+% and it was 33% earlier. Does that tell something about that transfer?

Could you please accelerate

705dea86020dc4f0713b0fca06d6c5f83653c4795f75bae922c5adc463322216

I have been waiting for over 3 days and I'm so lost with this shipment

thanks for the help