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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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TKay 1y ago

I say this to everyone I meet. The freakin “confirmed in x time” is the worst idea we created. It is not routed in reality, not in anyway.

TKay 1y ago

I thought about this UX problem A LOT. Couldn’t figure out a better way to communicate what’s going on in less than 5 words.

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

It’s BlueWallet, which is really hot garbage these days. It doesn’t get any feature updates and its fee estimates are nonsense.

cryptowolf 1y ago

Even after many years it happens to the best of us.

Sometimes it helps rebroadcasting transactions a couple of times a day. I had this happen earlier this week and used these two tools:

Naysayers will say that it does nothing, but its a ritual I still do if im waiting too long.....

https://bitaccelerate.com/

https://acceleratebtc.com/

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

It has never worked for me.

Derek Ross 1y ago

It does nothing. If you want to accelerate it, you need to pay a miner or bump the fee yourself. I've done both.

cryptowolf 1y ago

I guess my superstition arises from the fact that I had a transaction stuck for two weeks and upon using those two links, the transaction went through in the next block. I am not sure why the tool would exist otherwise.

To each their own :😉

Maxim 1y ago

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

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

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

Luis | BRLN 1y ago

He needs to learn about lightning.

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

It wouldn’t have helped him in his case.

Kirk 1y ago

HFSP...?

I'm joking. I'd just ressaure him that if he can't fee bump, that his tx will either confirm within the next week or so, or become spendable again in his wallet. His coins aren't lost in the ether, and the beauty of a bitcoin tx is that either the coins are with you or with the recipient. They can't get lost like a wire transfer.

1GLENCo 1y ago

Yikes. That sucks. Really. It does. I've had stuck transactions. I think almost all of us have. It's a painful experience, and for me costly as well.

So it sounds like he can wait, possibly forever, or save up enough $ to pay an accelerator like https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator. That was the one I used for my stuck transaction. After I paid the fee, it was confirmed quickly.

The Daniel 🖖 1y ago

Thanks, I’ll let him know. This might be what he has to use if he’s in a rush.

AncapAnon - Activate OP_GFY now! 1y ago

If he double spends it, the replacement will find its way to a miner via full rbf nodes.