Oh god, what have I done..?
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Forgot to enable rbf is what you done.
I was buying something from a website that uses bitpay as there gateway. And It didn't seem to give me any options, but I could be wrong.
CPFP time
What's that acronym mean, I sound like a newbie. So if I did my math right but it's probably wrong. It may take 30 days to clear??
Child pays for Parent. It's a way to bump your fees. Google it to learn more
You’ve now earned your mempool wings. I’m zapping some sats over to help speed this up.
I feel like a newbie, I thought after I sent the transaction there was no way to speed it up. Can I do it from a different wallet address
RBF was not turned on for the tx or else you could have tried that, but you can still do CPFP as mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
I don't have any BTC on chain that is accessible. Could someone do this for me, and I'll pay the necessary sats + tip.
Alright so I'm not sure I read it right. Would I just send 1 sat to the same address I sent to before. But in this case put higher fees?
With child pays for parent, one of the outputs of the unconfirmed transaction is spent in a new transaction with a higher fee that causes both transactions to be mined/confirmed. In order to do that you have to have control of the funds on the wallet that either sent the transaction or the one that received it. Because this was sent using Bitpay to a 3rd party, either Bitpay or that 3rd party would have to perform the CPFP transaction, if they’re even willing to do so. It’s why I didn’t even mention it in my other reply. If this was your own self-custodial wallet, these options would be possible from your end.
Your right, bitpay was the 3rd party, and then I used my WoS to pay for the transaction. I should make a Contest for people to guess when it will confirm.
Lol that’s one way to approach it 😂 Ok so Bitpay is the receiving party and WoS is the sending wallet. I’ve never used #[7] to send on chain, but they would be using some kind of swap service to go from your Lightning balance to on chain, so I’m not sure what kind of options they have to control an on chain transaction once it’s initiated.
Not quite. It’s a new transaction that spends an unconfirmed output from your prior transaction (parent) that is still pending in the mempool. The higher fee on the new transaction (child) incentivizes the miners to mine both transactions. I would Google/Whoogle/Search how to do a CPFP tx with whatever wallet software you are using. It’s going to be a different flow depending on the software and how much the software automatically handles crafting the transaction.