<p>As far as I know, it needs to be confirmed by at least 6 blocks before MultiBit 'allows' you to spend them (and the status changes from 'unconfirmed' to your actual balance). Did you include enough miner's fee?</p>

<p>In the "payments" tab, you can see the status of the transaction as well as a small green pie chart (1/6th = 1 block), reflecting the amount of blocks that have confirmed it.</p>

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2017-06-01T12:09:09.613Z
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Rob van Dijk
<p>Repairing the wallet will not do anything, because the problem here is that the incoming payment is not confirmed.</p>

<p>You could either wait it out, or try to create a CPFP transaction, but I don't think that MultiBit has support for that. Anyway, the transaction appears to have confirmed by now.</p>

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Murch
<p>MultiBit showing my balance as zero.  Plus I have a transaction that has been unconfirmed for 18 days <a href="https://blockchain.info/tx-index/60c125ad41aa8db424e3852716ae263089b096e475906a4e3e03eb8c18a0d6b4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blockchain link to unconfirmed transaction</a></p>

<p>wtf... this is not cool... Need the money asap...  Bitcoin is not as cool as I thought...</p>

<p>Tried repairing wallets three times to no avail.</p>

<p>Is there anything I can do to get the money that is displayed in the image to be available to spend?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance</p>

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Multibit showing account balance as zero
Uncle Vector
# Multibit showing account balance as zero

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-05-31)

MultiBit showing my balance as zero. Plus I have a transaction that has been unconfirmed for 18 days [blockchain link to unconfirmed transaction](https://blockchain.info/tx-index/60c125ad41aa8db424e3852716ae263089b096e475906a4e3e03eb8c18a0d6b4)

wtf... this is not cool... Need the money asap... Bitcoin is not as cool as I thought...

Tried repairing wallets three times to no avail.

Is there anything I can do to get the money that is displayed in the image to be available to spend?

Thanks in advance

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/VCuGi.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/VCuGi.png)

**Tags:** blockchain, unconfirmed-transactions, multibit


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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-06-01. Score: 0

As far as I know, it needs to be confirmed by at least 6 blocks before MultiBit 'allows' you to spend them (and the status changes from 'unconfirmed' to your actual balance). Did you include enough miner's fee?

In the "payments" tab, you can see the status of the transaction as well as a small green pie chart (1/6th = 1 block), reflecting the amount of blocks that have confirmed it.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-06-04. Score: 0

Repairing the wallet will not do anything, because the problem here is that the incoming payment is not confirmed.

You could either wait it out, or try to create a CPFP transaction, but I don't think that MultiBit has support for that. Anyway, the transaction appears to have confirmed by now.


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