<p>It will be dropt from the mempool if it stays unconfirmed for a long time. If the fee is low, it takes more time to get confirmed. And just now the Bitcoin network is getting spamed by Bcashers. I would wait until the spam is over, and then put a fee in acordance to the time you are willig to wait until the confirmation.</p>

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Thanks Ander - do you know roughly how long I should expect to wait for the transaction to drop from the mempool?
citygent
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Around three days
Ander Aristondo
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To add - bitcoins are never lost, or in transit, when a transaction is unconfirmed. The bitcoins are in your wallet, UNTIL the transaction is confirmed and then they are in the recipient's wallet. There is no limbo-state, like there is in traditional banking.
Ander Aristondo
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If you liked my answer, mark it as accepted, it will give me reputation.
Ander Aristondo
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As a final advice, I would recomend you to use a wallet that has segwit enabled, it will allow you to pay lower fees and to get confirmed faster
Ander Aristondo
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Have accepted your answer Ander! Also what's the best way to speed up the confirmation process once the transaction has been executed. I'm still waiting for it to be confirmed... :(
citygent
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It is a trade-off, the only way to speed up the confirmation time is to increase the fee you are paying. If you are not in a hurry I would suggest you to patiently wait. Right now there is an orchestated spam attack by miners who support Bitcoin Cash. They want to slow down Bitcoin network and try to replace it with their centralized fake Bitcoin imitation. I do not think they will suceed, so I would suggest you to wait until things get back to normal.
Ander Aristondo
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Ander Aristondo
<p>I'm pretty new to Bitcoin and although the technology is pretty exciting, I feel as though the sluggish confirmation times are letting it down... </p>

<p>On 18th December I instructed a Bitcoin transaction (5314fb75a5d08caf563cd6f6aaf40f448e9a9c6e0ba6affa499accd3534b97f6), admittedly with a pretty low fee, but I still wasn't expecting it to take days to get confirmed... Will this soon be dropped from the mempool or is there a way I can accelerate the transaction confirmation process? </p>

<p>Yours,
citygent</p>

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Bitcoin transaction has been unconfirmed for over 24 hours... What should I do?
citygent
# Bitcoin transaction has been unconfirmed for over 24 hours... What should I do?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-12-20)

I'm pretty new to Bitcoin and although the technology is pretty exciting, I feel as though the sluggish confirmation times are letting it down...

On 18th December I instructed a Bitcoin transaction (5314fb75a5d08caf563cd6f6aaf40f448e9a9c6e0ba6affa499accd3534b97f6), admittedly with a pretty low fee, but I still wasn't expecting it to take days to get confirmed... Will this soon be dropped from the mempool or is there a way I can accelerate the transaction confirmation process?

Yours,
username_0

**Tags:** transactions, transaction-fees, unconfirmed-transactions, mempool


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-12-20. Score: 0 | Accepted answer

It will be dropt from the mempool if it stays unconfirmed for a long time. If the fee is low, it takes more time to get confirmed. And just now the Bitcoin network is getting spamed by Bcashers. I would wait until the spam is over, and then put a fee in acordance to the time you are willig to wait until the confirmation.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks username_1 - do you know roughly how long I should expect to wait for the transaction to drop from the mempool?  
> **username_1**: Around three days  
> **username_1**: To add - bitcoins are never lost, or in transit, when a transaction is unconfirmed. The bitcoins are in your wallet, UNTIL the transaction is confirmed and then they are in the recipient's wallet. There is no limbo-state, like there is in traditional banking.  
> **username_1**: If you liked my answer, mark it as accepted, it will give me reputation.  
> **username_1**: As a final advice, I would recomend you to use a wallet that has segwit enabled, it will allow you to pay lower fees and to get confirmed faster  
> **username_0**: Have accepted your answer username_1! Also what's the best way to speed up the confirmation process once the transaction has been executed. I'm still waiting for it to be confirmed... :(  
> **username_1**: It is a trade-off, the only way to speed up the confirmation time is to increase the fee you are paying. If you are not in a hurry I would suggest you to patiently wait. Right now there is an orchestated spam attack by miners who support Bitcoin Cash. They want to slow down Bitcoin network and try to replace it with their centralized fake Bitcoin imitation. I do not think they will suceed, so I would suggest you to wait until things get back to normal.  

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