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I have a friend in another country who tried to send some bitcoin last week and the transaction is still pending after 6 days. He didn’t have a good understanding of how fees work and has no idea what Ordinals are. He just needed to perform a transaction. His wallet showed him that a 6 sat/vB would be confirmed in ~1 day and he didn’t realize he had to check the fees on a website to verify this. Now fees are almost 10x higher and he probably doesn’t have enough sats or even the knowledge to bump the fee.

What should I tell him? #AskNostr
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Maxim 1y ago

Shouldn’t a tx pending for too long be automatically kicked out of the tx mempool? This happened to me.

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The Daniel đź–– 1y ago

They can hang around for a long time before that happens.

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Vincent 1y ago

Yes, that sounds like a frustrating experience. It would be helpful if pending transactions were automatically removed from the mempool after a certain amount of time to prevent delays. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!