<p>No.</p>

<p>The only way to speed up the first confirmation is for you to (not guaranteed, but generally works) pay a higher transaction fee or for you to own a significant amount of the hashing/mining power and implement rules so that your mining farm always includes your transactions.  Keep in mind that even if you owned 100% of the hashing power (of which you always prioritised your own transactions), the best you could ever get is your transaction in the next block which will take 0 to 10 minutes.</p>

<p>Note that once your transaction is included in a block, it's generally 10 minutes per confirmation after that (unless the block chain forks and your transaction needs to be re-included in the new chain), so it would take from 50-60 minutes for 6 confirmations anyway.</p>

<p>At the moment, If I pay a transaction fee of 0.0003BTC (30 cents!) my transaction is normally included in the next block.  A fee of 0.0001 can take hours.</p>

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I don't know where you're getting 7.5 from, but that can't possibly right. The average time to find a block is ten minutes, so the average time to get a transaction in a block can never be less than that.
David Schwartz
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@David: Well the difficulty is constantly lagging behind by a little, and the average time to find block is maybe closer to 7.5 than 10 min.
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John
<p>Yes, there are a few ways you can do this.</p>

<p>First, you could solo mine using GBT from Bitcoin-Qt, and prioritise your own transactions. But unless you find a block, this does no good.</p>

<p>Second, and perhaps easier, you could use a pool like Eligius which offers prioritisation as a perk to its miners.</p>

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Luke Dashjr
<p>If I want to make a bitcoin transaction I need to wait 3-6 confirmations for my transaction to be accepted (by say an exchange etc)</p>

<p>Is it possible to run a miner so that it is listening out for transaction on my address, to have my transaction confirmed sooner?</p>

<p>Or at least have the first confirmation confirmed sooner?</p>

<p>(Plus would I be able to recoup some of the transaction fees?)</p>

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Is it possible to run a miner to confirm transactions for a target address?
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# Is it possible to run a miner to confirm transactions for a target address?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-11-28)

If I want to make a bitcoin transaction I need to wait 3-6 confirmations for my transaction to be accepted (by say an exchange etc)

Is it possible to run a miner so that it is listening out for transaction on my address, to have my transaction confirmed sooner?

Or at least have the first confirmation confirmed sooner?

(Plus would I be able to recoup some of the transaction fees?)

**Tags:** transactions, transaction-fees, confirmations


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2013-11-28. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

No.

The only way to speed up the first confirmation is for you to (not guaranteed, but generally works) pay a higher transaction fee or for you to own a significant amount of the hashing/mining power and implement rules so that your mining farm always includes your transactions. Keep in mind that even if you owned 100% of the hashing power (of which you always prioritised your own transactions), the best you could ever get is your transaction in the next block which will take 0 to 10 minutes.

Note that once your transaction is included in a block, it's generally 10 minutes per confirmation after that (unless the block chain forks and your transaction needs to be re-included in the new chain), so it would take from 50-60 minutes for 6 confirmations anyway.

At the moment, If I pay a transaction fee of 0.0003BTC (30 cents!) my transaction is normally included in the next block. A fee of 0.0001 can take hours.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: I don't know where you're getting 7.5 from, but that can't possibly right. The average time to find a block is ten minutes, so the average time to get a transaction in a block can never be less than that.  
> **username_3**: @username_2: Well the difficulty is constantly lagging behind by a little, and the average time to find block is maybe closer to 7.5 than 10 min.  

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### Answer by username_4 on 2013-11-28. Score: 3

Yes, there are a few ways you can do this.

First, you could solo mine using GBT from Bitcoin-Qt, and prioritise your own transactions. But unless you find a block, this does no good.

Second, and perhaps easier, you could use a pool like Eligius which offers prioritisation as a perk to its miners.


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