<p><a href="https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">There is currently a backlog of about 69,000 unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions</a> and only the transactions with the highest fees will be confirmed until the backlog clears.</p>

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  <p>Please help me!</p>
</blockquote>

<p>For similar situations going forward, you have a few options:</p>

<ol>
<li>Submit your transaction to the <a href="https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ViaBTC Transaction Accelerator</a></li>
<li>If you control either of the receiving addresses, send a new transaction from one of them with a much larger fee, encouraging a miner to pick up the whole chain of transactions (Child-Pays-For-Parent).</li>
<li>Wait. The transaction should be either confirmed or removed from the memory pool within about 72 hours.</li>
</ol>

<p><a href="https://bitcoinfees.21.co/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">21.co has a good fee estimator for future transactions.</a></p>

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2017-01-24T20:24:18.523Z
2017-01-24T20:24:18.523Z
Michael C Ippolito
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<p>I am a noob in the bitcoin world, I made a transfer of 0.0577201 BTC , with a transaction fee of 0.000221 BTC,  but the transaction has not yet been confirmed. Please help me! Here is the link for the transaction: <a href="https://blockchain.info/tx/72b2b1191693f5d916daf899ef6e43171599b065779e394fc7096c8fc5262091" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blockchain.info/tx/72b2b1191693f5d916daf899ef6e43171599b065779e394fc7096c8fc5262091</a> </p>

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2017-01-24T15:03:32.857Z
It confirmed now.
Pieter Wuille
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Help! Unconfirmed transaction for the past 12 hours!
Kaytech Technoloqies
# Help! Unconfirmed transaction for the past 12 hours!

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-24)

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I am a noob in the bitcoin world, I made a transfer of 0.0577201 BTC , with a transaction fee of 0.000221 BTC, but the transaction has not yet been confirmed. Please help me! Here is the link for the transaction: <https://blockchain.info/tx/72b2b1191693f5d916daf899ef6e43171599b065779e394fc7096c8fc5262091>

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, unconfirmed-transactions, bitcoin-core-development

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: It confirmed now.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2017-01-24. Score: 0

[There is currently a backlog of about 69,000 unconfirmed Bitcoin transactions](https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions) and only the transactions with the highest fees will be confirmed until the backlog clears.

> Please help me!

For similar situations going forward, you have a few options:

1. Submit your transaction to the [ViaBTC Transaction Accelerator](https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/)
2. If you control either of the receiving addresses, send a new transaction from one of them with a much larger fee, encouraging a miner to pick up the whole chain of transactions (Child-Pays-For-Parent).
3. Wait. The transaction should be either confirmed or removed from the memory pool within about 72 hours.

[21.co has a good fee estimator for future transactions.](https://bitcoinfees.21.co/)


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